The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
ADMINISTRATOR: The public works director or his designee.
APPROVED: Accepted by the department as either meeting an applicable specification stated or cited in this chapter, or suitable for the proposed use.
AUXILIARY WATER SUPPLY: Any water supply on or available to premises other than the potable water supplied by the town. These auxiliary waters may include, but shall not be limited to, water from another purveyor's public potable water supply or any natural sources such as a well, spring, river, stream, harbor, or treated effluent, wastewaters, or industrial fluids. These waters may be polluted or contaminated or may be objectionable and constitute an unacceptable water source over which the department does not have sanitary control.
BACK PRESSURE: Any elevation of pressure in a customer's water supply system above the pressure of the public potable water supply system which could cause water or other liquids, mixtures or substances to flow from a customer's water supply system into the distribution system of the public potable water supply system.
BACK SIPHONAGE: A reversal of the normal flow of water caused by a reduction of pressure in the potable water supply system which causes the flow of water or other liquids, mixtures, or substances from a customer's water supply system into the distribution system of the public potable water supply system.
BACKFLOW: The reversal of the normal flow of water caused by either back pressure or back siphonage.
CONTAMINATION: An impairment in the quality of potable water by sewage, industrial fluids, waste liquids, compounds or other materials or fluids to a degree which creates an actual hazard to the public health by poisoning or by the spread of disease.
CONTRACTOR: A person licensed to do work in the state for either a fixed sum, price, fee, percentage, bonus, or other compensation, other than actual wages, and who undertakes to or offers to undertake to, or submit a bid to, or does himself, by or through others, construct, alter, repair, add to, subtract from, improve, move, wreck or demolish any building, highway, road, railroad, excavation, or other structure, project, development or improvement, or to do any part thereof, including the erection of a scaffolding or other structures or works in connection therewith; and the term "contractor" includes subcontractors, specialty contractors, developers, and speculative builders.
CROSS CONNECTION: Any physical connection or other arrangement of piping or fixtures between a piping system containing potable water and a piping system containing nonpotable water, waste fluids, industrial fluids, or other fluids of questionable safety for human consumption through which, or because of which, backflow may occur into the public potable water system. "Cross connections" include any temporary connections such as swing connections, removable sections, four (4) way plug valves, spools, dummy sections of pipe, swivel or changeover devices or sliding multiport tube.
CUSTOMER WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM: The water distribution facilities within a customer's premises commencing at the discharge point of the service connection.
DEPARTMENT: The town water department.
DEPARTMENT HEAD: The public works director or his designee.
DEVELOPER: The person who is responsible for the development of land thereby creating a demand for domestic water.
DEVELOPMENT: Any improvement for lease or sale which creates demand for domestic water.
DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM: The network of conduits used to deliver potable water from the source facilities to the customer's water supply system.
DOMESTIC WATER: Water supplied through the pipes of the town water system.
EMERGENCY FIRE SPRINKLER TAP: A water tap maintained by the owner or occupant of a building or other structure to be used in the event of a fire or other emergency, and not used in the normal course of use and occupancy of the building or structure; provided, that no water meter is installed on such tap.
FINANCE DIRECTOR: The director of the finance and budget department (chief fiscal officer) or her/his duly authorized agent.
FLOOD IRRIGATION SYSTEM: Irrigation system consisting of pipes, gates, laterals, valves, and berms constructed for the purpose of conveying water to private property or public places.
FLOOD IRRIGATION WATER: Water supplied to or through a flood irrigation system.
HAZARD, DEGREE OF: An evaluation of the potential risk to the public health and the adverse effect of the hazard upon the public potable water system.
HOUSE UNDER CONSTRUCTION: When water service is available to such house or building and shall end when final building inspection is made at the end of the three (3) month construction period.
INDUSTRIAL FLUID SYSTEM: Any system containing a fluid or solution which is chemically, biologically or otherwise contaminated or polluted in a form or concentration such as would constitute a health, system, pollutional, or plumbing hazard if introduced into the public potable water system. This may include, but shall not be limited to, polluted or contaminated waters; all types of process waters, wastewaters, and used waters originating from the public potable water system which may have deteriorated in sanitary quality; chemicals in fluid form, plating acids and alkalines, circulating cooling waters connected to an open cooling tower and/or cooling towers that are chemically or biologically treated or stabilized with toxic substances; contaminated natural waters such as from wells, springs, streams, rivers, bays, harbors, seas, irrigation canals or systems; or oils, gases, glycerin, paraffins, caustic and acid solutions; and other liquid and gaseous fluids used in industrial or other purposes or for firefighting purposes.
NONPOTABLE WATER: Water which is not safe for human consumption or which is of questionable quality for human consumption.
NOTICE: A written instrument served by the town as follows:
A. By the use of ordinary mail to the last known address of the person to whom it is required to be given; or
B. By personal service upon the person or his lawful representative; or
C. By filing or recording with a clerk of the superior court or county recorder.
OWNER/BUILDER: A person who owns or leases real property within the town acting as a contractor in constructing any improvement upon the real property, which real property, as improved, is held by such person for his use or for rental purposes.
POLLUTION: The presence of any foreign substance (organic, inorganic, or biological) in water which tends to degrade its quality or impair its usefulness to a degree which does not create an actual hazard to the public health, but which does adversely and unreasonably affect such water for domestic use.
POTABLE WATER: Any water which is safe for human consumption pursuant to the standards set by the Arizona department of environmental quality.
PUBLIC POTABLE WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM: The source facilities and the distribution system under control of the town to the point where a customer's water supply system commences. A customer's water supply system commences at the discharge point of the service connection.
RESIDENTIAL DWELLING UNIT: One or more rooms in a dwelling or a portion of a dwelling designed for occupancy by one family for living purposes, and having its own cooking and sanitary facilities.
SERVICE CONNECTION: The terminal end of a service line from the public potable water system at its point of delivery to the customer's water system where the department loses jurisdiction and sanitary control over the water. If a meter is installed between the customer's water supply system and the public potable water system, the service connection shall be the discharge end of the meter. "Service connection" shall also include a water connection from a fire hydrant and any other temporary or emergency water connection with the public potable water supply system.
SOURCE FACILITIES: All components and facilities utilized in the production, treatment, storage, and delivery of potable water to the distribution system.
STRUCTURE: Each separate occupancy, residence, house, store, building or any construction or production or piece of work artificially built up or comprised of parts joined together in some definite manner and served by a separate water meter. This definition is not inclusive.
UNIT OF SERVICE: Each separate occupancy, house, store, or building so situated upon any lot within the town that the same might be or is now served by the town water system or, in the opinion of the public works director, should be served separately from any other occupancy, house, residence, store, or building upon the same lot irrespective of the number of residences, houses, stores, or buildings upon said lot, and even though two (2) or more of said occupancies, residences, houses, stores, or buildings are held or owned by the same person. The determination of the public works director as to whether any house, occupancy, residence, store, or building comes within the meaning of this definition so as to require separate service connections, curb, or alley stop box and curb or alley cock shall be final; except, that the owner or occupant of said premises shall have the right to appeal from such decision to the town council at a regular meeting. In event of any such appeal being taken, the determination of the council shall be final.
USED WATER: Any water supplied by the department, from the public potable water system to a customer's water system, after it has passed through the service connection and is no longer under the sanitary control of the department.
USER: The owner, tenant, trustee, mortgage receiver, or occupier, whether person, corporation, firm, or municipality, of property which is connected to the public water system.
WATER SERVICE AREA: All areas wherein the town has the right to supply domestic water. (1988 Code § 13-1-2; amd. 2004 Code)