The following words and phrases have the following meanings:
Director: The Director of the Department of Permitting Services or the Director's designee.
Individual sewage disposal system: A system, other than a public or community system, which receives liquid wastes or human excreta, or both, generated on the same lot. It includes a sewage treatment unit, effluent disposal area and related appurtenances.
Individual water supply system: A well or other approved source of water, and all appurtenances thereto, including pumps and piping, for delivery of an adequate supply of potable water for use on the same lot.
Permit: A written permission issued by the Director for the construction and/or maintenance of an individual water supply system or an individual sewage disposal system.
Person: Any institution, individual, partnership, governmental entity, public or private corporation or other entity.
Potable water: Water which is safe for human consumption.
Lot: A measured parcel of land having fixed boundaries and designated on a plat or survey, together with any recorded easement satisfactory to the Director.
Well: Any excavation that is drilled, cored, bored, driven, dug, jetted or otherwise constructed when the intended use of such an excavation is for the location, extraction or artificial recharge of ground water. (1979 L.M.C., ch. 46, § 8; 1983 L.M.C., ch. 30, § 2; 1995 L.M.C., ch. 13, § 1; 1996 L.M.C., ch. 20, § 1; 1998 L.M.C., ch. 12, § 1; 2001 L.M.C., ch. 14, § 1; 2002 L.M.C., ch. 16, § 2.)
Editor's note—See County Attorney Opinion dated 7/29/98 explaining that the Washington Metropolitan Area Transportation Authority, Housing Opportunities Commission, and the fire corporations must comply with County permit requirements and mandatory referral.
Section 5 of 1995 L.M.C., ch. 13, reads as follows: "Sec. 5. A regulation that implements a function assigned to the Department of Health and Human Services by 1995 LMC ch. 13 continues in effect but is amended to the extent necessary to provide that the regulation is administered by the Director of the Department of Health and Human Services."