As used in this chapter:
(a) "Billing units" means 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, the number of separate and distinct profit or nonprofit activities being conducted in a commercial structure, or an industrial structure.
(b) "City sewerage system" means the sewer mains, trunk lines, lateral sewers from the main to the point of sewer service line connections, sewer service treatment plants and all appurtenant facilities operated by the City in furnishing sewage service in whole or in part outside its boundaries.
(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, that are connected to the City sewerage 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 every property owner, commercial, industrial or nonprofit establishment or other entity whose property is tapped into the City sewerage system or into the sewerage system of any municipality.
(e) (EDITOR'S NOTE: Subsection (e) was repealed by Ordinance 4543, passed September 26, 1990.)
(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 sewerage 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 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) "Municipality" means every borough, township, authority or other political body which owns a sewage collection system which is tapped into the City sewage collection system, directly or indirectly. As a condition for tapping into the City sewer system, and as a condition for the continuing tap into the City sewer systems, the Municipality shall abide by the terms and conditions of this chapter.
(m) "Owner" means any person owning any premises receiving or utilizing the services of the City sewerage system.
(n) "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 sewerage system or the sewerage system of any municipality, 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.
(o) "User" means a person or entity, whether the owner or another person, occupying premises connected directly or indirectly to the City sewerage system.
(p) "Water utility" means all authorities and municipal and private corporations or companies engaged in the supplying of water or water services.
(Ord. 4543. Passed 9-26-90.)