For the purpose of this chapter, the following words and terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section. Additional terms shall have the meanings indicated in chapter 1 of the last edition of the western plumbing officials uniform plumbing code adopted by the Western Plumbing Officials Association.
APPLICANT: The person making application for a permit for a sewer or plumbing installation and shall be the owner of premises to be served by the sewer for which a permit is requested or his authorized agent.
BUILDING: Any structure used for human habitation or a place of business or recreation or for other purposes containing sanitary facilities.
BUILDING SEWER: That portion of any sewer beginning at the plumbing or drainage outlet of any building or industrial facility and running to the property line or to a private sewage disposal system.
CITY: The city of Melba.
CLERK-TREASURER: The city clerk-treasurer of the city.
CONTRACTOR: A person, firm, corporation, partnership, or association duly licensed by the state of Idaho to perform the type of work to be done under the permit.
COUNCIL: The city council of the city.
COUNTY: The county of Canyon, Idaho.
ENGINEER: The engineer appointed by and acting for the council and shall be a registered civil engineer.
GARBAGE: Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
LATERAL SEWER: The portion of a sewer lying within a public street connecting a building sewer to the main sewer.
MAIN SEWER: A public sewer designed to accommodate more than one lateral sewer.
OUTSIDE SEWER: A sanitary sewer beyond the limits of the city not subject to the control or jurisdiction of the city.
PERMIT: Any written authorization required pursuant to this chapter or any other regulation of the city for the installation of any sewage works.
PERSON: Any person, firm, company, partnership, association and private or public corporations, the United States of America, governmental agencies and mandataries thereof.
PLUMBING SYSTEM: All plumbing fixtures and traps for soil, waste, special waste and vent pipes, and all sanitary sewer pipes within a building and extending to the building sewer connection three feet (3') outside the building wall.
PRIVATE SEWER: An independent sewage disposal system not connected with a public sewer and which accommodates one or more buildings or industries.
PUBLIC SEWER: A sewer lying within a street and which is controlled by or under the jurisdiction of the city.
PUBLIC WORKS SUPERINTENDENT: The person in charge of the sewer system, appointed by the council.
SANITARY SEWER: A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE: A combination of water carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT: Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
SEWAGE WORKS: All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage.
SEWER: A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SIDE SEWER: The sewer line beginning at the foundation wall of any building and terminating at the main sewer and includes the building sewer and lateral sewer together.
STORM SEWER OR STORM DRAIN: A sewer which carries storm and surface or ground waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and polluted wastes.
STREET: Any public highway, road, street, avenue, alley, way, public place, public easement or right of way. (Ord. 63, 5-6-1975)