Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, as used in this chapter:
(a) "Billing unit" is equivalent to a family dwelling unit, the number of living quarters with separate sanitary facilities contained in a multifamily structure, the number of bathrooms and/or toilet rooms contained in a multi-occupancy structure or the number of separate and distinct profit or nonprofit activities being conducted in a commercial structure. The determination of billing units shall not apply to industrial structures.
(b) "City sewage collection system" means the sewage collecting system serving only properties within the City, including all sewer service lines and laterals and all pertinent facilities owned and operated by the City in furnishing sewage collection services, but not including the City sewage collection system referred to in Chapter 1050.
(c) "Commercial structures" includes all structures or parts thereof that do not otherwise qualify as industrial structures, family dwelling units, multifamily structures or multi-occupancy structures and that are connected to the City sewage collection system, without regard to whether or not the property is used for profit and without regard to the legal status of the owner or user thereof, but excluding City owned and used structures.
(d) "Customer" means a person actually paying for or obligated to pay for the sewage collection services of the City sewage collection system.
(e) "Employee" means, in connection with an industrial structure, any agent, servant, employee or officer at the structure on a regular basis.
(f) "Family" means:
(1) An individual or two or more individuals related by blood, marriage or adoption, living together in a dwelling unit; or
(2) A group of not more than three persons who need not be related by blood, marriage or adoption, living together as a single housekeeping unit in a dwelling unit and sharing common facilities that are considered reasonably appropriate for a family related by blood, marriage or adoption.
(g) "Family dwelling unit" means a building or structure or part thereof designed for and used exclusively for single-family residential occupancy. The term does not include motels, hotels, boarding houses, dormitories, fraternity or sorority houses, hospitals, housing for the elderly, nursing homes, institutional facilities, rooming houses and the like.
(h) "Industrial structures" includes structures owned by persons, firms, companies, businesses, associations or other entities, which structures are connected, directly or indirectly, to the City sewage collection system, and which structures are used for basic manufacturing processes, such as iron, steel or other metal manufacturing or processing; foundry or fabrication plants; heavy weight casting, including galvanizing and other treatment; blast furnaces; rolling mills; machine shops; boiler works; brick, tile or terra cotta manufacturing plants; and the like.
(i) "Meter" means any device for measuring, totalizing and recording fluid flows, which device is acceptable in the opinion of the City Engineer or the consulting engineer.
(j) "Multifamily structures" means structures or parts thereof designed and used for multifamily residential use, including apartment houses, duplexes, row houses, boarding houses, dormitories, fraternity or sorority houses, housing for the elderly, nursing homes and institutional facilities.
(k) "Multi-occupancy structures" means structures designed for occupancy primarily as the temporary abiding place of individuals who are lodged there, with or without meals, including, but not limited to, motels, hotels, hospitals, rooming houses and the like.
(l) "Owner" means any person owning any premises receiving sewage collection services from the City sewage collection system.
(m) "Sanitary sewage" means spent water, together with human and household wastes ordinarily removed by water carriage, and industrial wastes. Such definition expressly excludes the effluent from septic tanks or cesspools, as well as rain, storm and ground water which could in any way enter the City sewage collection system, as well as roof or surface drainage and drainage of percolating or seeping waters or of accumulations thereof, whether underground or in cellars or basements.
(n) "User" means any person, whether the owner or another person, occupying premises connected directly or indirectly to the City sewage collection system.
(o) "Water utility" means all municipal and private corporations or companies engaged in the supplying of water or water services.
(Ord. 4170. Passed 1-9-80.)