For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BUILDING DRAIN. The part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer beginning five feet outside the inner face of a building wall.
BUILDING SEWER. The extension from the building drain of the public sewer or other place of disposal.
COMMERCIAL. All sewer users, except residential.
GARBAGE. All putrescible wastes, except sewage and body waste, including wastes accumulated of animals, food or vegetable matter, and including wastes that attend the preparation, use, cooking, dealing in or storing of meat, fish, fowl, fruit and vegetables, and shall include all such wastes or accumulations of vegetable matter of residences, restaurants, hotels and places where food is prepared for human consumption. The term GARBAGE shall not include recognized industrial products or by-products, nor shall it include cans, boxes, cartons, paper or other objects which may or not have good or other organic material of any nature in or adhering thereto.
INDUSTRIAL USER. Any non-residential user who discharges industrial waste.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE. The liquid wastes from industrial processes as distinct from residential sewage.
INSPECTOR. The individual, firm or corporation, designated by the city, including, but limited to, the Director of Public Works or his or her authorized assistants and inspectors.
MAY. The act referred to is permissive.
NATURAL OUTLET. Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
PERSON. Any individual, firm, partnership, company, association, society, corporation or group.
PLUMBING REGULATIONS. The state plumbing laws, rules and regulations, governing plumbing and water supply as adopted by the state’s Board of Health, state’s Bureau of Labor Rules and Regulations, Department of Environmental Quality and city specifications, rules and regulations.
PRIVATE SEWER. A sewer privately owned and constructed in conformance with the provisions hereof.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE. The waste from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food that has been shredded to such degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particles greater than one-half inch in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER. A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage, consisting of all conduits placed or accepted by the city for public usage.
RECORDER. City Recorder of the City of Joseph.
RESIDENTIAL. One family unit under a single roof.
SANITARY SEWER. A sewer which carries sewage from any building to the public sewer.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT. Any arrangement of devices or structures used for treating sewage.
SEWAGE WORKS. All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage.
SHALL. The act referred to is mandatory.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS. Solids that float on the surface of, or are in suspension in water, sewage or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory filtering.
WATERCOURSE. A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
(Ord. 97-02, passed 6-3-1997)