As used in this chapter:
(a) "B.O.D." (biochemical oxygen demand) means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at twenty degrees Centigrade, expressed in parts per million by weight.
(b) "Building drain" means that 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 lateral, beginning three feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
(c) "Garbage" means solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of products.
(d) "Industrial wastes" means the liquid wastes from industrial processes, as distinct from sanitary sewage.
(e) "Lateral" means the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
(f) "Natural outlet" means any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
(g) "Person" means any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.
(h) "pH" means the logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
(i) "Private sewer" means a sewer which is not publicly owned and to which all adjoining property owners do not have equal rights.
(j) "Properly shredded garbage" means the wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food that has been shredded to such a degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle greater than three-eighths of an inch in any dimension.
(k) "Public sewer" means a publicly owned sewer to which all adjoining property owners have equal rights.
(l) "Sanitary sewer" means a pipe or conduit for carrying sanitary sewage.
(m) "Sewage" means a combination or any one of the water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments.
(n) "Sewage treatment plant" means any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
(o) "Sewage works" means all facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sanitary sewage and industrial waste.
(p) "Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
(q) "Storm sewer" or "storm drain" means a sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and polluted industrial wastes.
(r) "Superintendent" means the Superintendent of the Division of Water and Sewage of the Village, or his or her authorized deputy, agent or representative.
(s) "Suspended solids" means solids that either float on the surface or are in suspension in water, sewage or other liquids, and which are removable by laboratory filtering.
(t) "Village" means the Village of Orwell, Ohio.
(u) "Watercourse" means a channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently (Ord. 252. Passed 5-20-69.)