For the purpose of this subchapter, 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 outside the inner face of the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER. The extension from the building drain to the municipal sewer or other place of disposal.
COMMERCIAL PREMISES. All buildings or structures which are not residential premises, as herein defined.
GARBAGE. Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food or from the handling, storage and sale of foods or produce.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES. The liquid wastes from industrial processes, as distinct from sanitary sewage and garbage.
MUNICIPAL SEWER. A sewer operated by the municipality for the benefit of citizens of the municipality generally.
PERSON. Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.
PRIVATE SEWER. A sewer designed to serve a single user, provided that a special permit may be granted by the Superintendent for use of the sewer by one or additional users.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE. Wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of foods that have been shredded to a degree that all particles will be carried freely, under the flow conditions normally prevailing in municipal sewers, with no particle greater than one-half inch in any dimension.
RESIDENTIAL PREMISES. All buildings or structures occupied and used exclusively as a home by not more than two families.
SANITARY SEWAGE. Water-carried wastes from toilets, sinks, baths, household laundries or tubs and similar facilities.
SANITARY SEWER. A sewer which carries sanitary sewage.
SEWAGE. Any combination of water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments.
SEWAGE DISPOSAL PLANT. Any arrangement of devices or structures for treating sewage in order to eliminate or reduce its odor or other harmful or obnoxious characteristics.
SEWER. A pipe or conduit for carrying storm water, sanitary sewage or both.
SEWER OUTLET. Any termination of a sewer system into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
SEWER SYSTEM. All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage.
SUPERINTENDENT. The official charged with the duty of superintending the municipal sewer system or his or her authorized deputy, agent or representative.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS. Solids that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension in water, sewage or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory filtering.
WATERCOURSE. A natural or artificial channel in which a flow of surface water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
(Ord. 54A, passed - -; Am. Ord. 60B, passed 12-5-1975; Am. Ord. 54B1, passed 9-28-1989; Am. Ord. 84A, passed 2-26-1998)