As used in this chapter:
(a) "Enforcement agency" means any enforcement agency, including, but not limited to, the City of Lincoln Park, the County of Wayne, the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, the Federal Environmental Protection Agency, or any court of competent jurisdiction of the State of Michigan or the United States of America.
(b) "Illegal discharge" means any direct non-storm water discharge, except those permitted in the City's certificate of coverage, into an enclosed or open storm drainage system located within the boundaries of the City of Lincoln Park.
(c) "Illicit connection" means any drain or conveyance, whether on the surface or subsurface, which allows an illegal discharge to enter a storm drainage system including but not limited to any conveyances which allow any non-storm water discharge including sewage, process wastewater, and wash water to enter the storm drainage system and any connections to the storm drainage system from indoor drains and sinks, regardless of whether said drain or connection had been previously allowed, permitted, or approved by an authorized enforcement agency, or any drain or conveyance connected from commercial or industrial land use to the storm drainage system which has not been documented in plans, maps or equivalent records and approved by an authorized enforcement agency.
(d) "Non-storm water discharge" means any discharge to the storm drainage system that is not composed entirely of storm water.
(e) "Person" or "property owner" means any individual, association, organization, partnership, firm, corporation, or other entity recognized by City records and acting as either the owner or as the owner's, agent and shall include tenants or occupants of a parcel, structure, or vehicle.
(f) "Pollutant" means any thing which causes or contributes to pollution. Pollutants may include, but are not limited to: paints, varnishes, and solvents; oil and other automotive fluids; non-hazardous liquid and solid wastes and yard wastes; refuse, garbage, litter, or other discarded or abandoned objects and accumulations, which may cause pollution; floatables, pesticides, herbicides, hazardous substances and wastes; sewage, fecal coliform and pathogens; dissolved and particulate metals; animal wastes and residues that result from the preparation or service of food or that result from the construction of a building or structure; cement residue or wash off from cement application equipment; discharges from vehicles and recreational vehicles, and noxious or offensive matter of any kind.
(g) "Premises" means any building, structure, garage, home, apartment, shed, vehicle, or parcel of land from which an illicit connection is located or created.
(h) "Sanitary sewer system" means any facilities by which sanitary water is collected and/or conveyed, including but not limited to any structures which allow any non-storm water discharges including sewage, process wastewater, pollutants, and wash water to enter the storm drainage system and any connections to the storm drainage system from indoor drains and sinks which empty into the storm drainage system.
(i) "Storm drainage system" means any facilities by which storm water is collected and/or conveyed, including but not limited to any roads with drainage systems, municipal streets, gutters, curbs, inlets, catch basins, piped storm drains, pumping facilities, retention and detention basins, natural or human-made or altered drainage channels, rivers, creeks, wetlands, or other drainage structures.
(j) "Storm water" means any surface flow, runoff, and drainage consisting entirely of water from any form of natural precipitation, and resulting from such precipitation.
(k) "Wastewater" means any water or other liquid, other than uncontaminated storm water, discharged from a premises.
(Res. 02-550A. Passed 10-7-02.)