For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
COMBINED SEWER. A sewer designated to receive both sewage and stormwater runoff.
COMMERCIAL USER. A user of the city sewage system in a location where a trade, business, profession or occupation is carried on or where a service is rendered.
DOMESTIC USER. Each family unit which uses the sewerage system of this city; the family unit may consist of one or more persons, and where there is more than one family unit using water from the same water meter or under the same roof, each family unit shall be considered a separate DOMESTIC USER.
GARBAGE. Solid waste from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL USER. A user of the city sewerage system such as factories and like organizations where more than 25 persons are employed.
OCCUPIED BUILDING. Any structure erected and intended for continuous or periodic habitation, occupancy or use by human beings or animals and from which structure sanitary sewage and industrial wastes, or either thereof, is or may be discharged.
PREMISES ACCESSIBLE TO THE SANITARY SEWERAGE SYSTEM. Any real estate which adjoins, abuts or is adjacent to the public sanitary sewerage system, or any real estate which might be connected to that system by construction of a private sewer of not more than 100 feet in length.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE. The wastes 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, where no particle is greater than one-half inch in any dimension.
PUBLIC SANITARY SEWERAGE SYSTEM. All separate sanitary sewers, all combined sewers, all sewage pumping stations, all sewage treatment works and other facilities provided and owned by the city for the collection, transportation and treatment of sanitary sewage and industrial wastes, with their appurtenances and any additions, extensions or improvements thereto that may be made by the city. It shall also include sewers within or outside the city limits which serve one or more persons and discharge into the city sanitary sewerage system even though those sewers may not have been constructed by city funds. It does not include separate storm sewers or culverts which have been constructed for the sole purpose of carrying storm and surface runoff, the discharge from which is not and does not become tributary to the city’s sewage treatment facilities.
PUBLIC USER. A user of the city sewerage system by governmental, educational, church, charitable, benevolent, civic, service or like units or organizations.
SANITARY SEWAGE. The normal water-carried household and toilet wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions, industries and commercial establishments, exclusive of stormwater runoff, surface water or groundwater.
SANITARY SEWER. A sewer which carries sewage to which storm, surface and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE. A combination of water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together with such ground, surface or stormwater as may be present.
SEWER. A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage or other waste liquids.
STORM SEWER. A sewer which is intended to carry stormwater runoff, surface water, groundwater drainage and the like, but which is not intended to carry any sanitary sewage or polluted industrial waste.
STORMWATER RUNOFF. The portion of the rainfall which reaches a drain.
(Prior Code, § 915.01)