For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
COMMERCIAL USER. Any user of the waterworks and sewage facilities for such purpose or use as involves the provision of services or sale of goods in finished form.
GOVERNMENTAL USER. Any user of the waterworks and sewage facilities for such purpose as involves the provision of services and supported principally by taxes.
INDUSTRIAL USER. Any user of the waterworks and sewage facilities for such purpose as involving the making, manufacture, fabrication or assembly of goods.
INSTITUTIONAL USER. Any user of the waterworks and sewage facilities for such purpose:
(1) As involves industrial users that do not discharge process waste; or
(2) User classified in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1972, Office of Management and Budget, as amended and supplemented, under Division I - Services, Major Group 80.
RESIDENTIAL USER. Any user of the waterworks and sewage facilities for such purpose or use as involves habitation and living therein of individual persons.
SANITARY SEWER MAINS. Those mains of the city used for the collection, transmission and disposal of sanitary sewerage which are a part of the combined waterworks and sewerage system of the city.
SERVICE PIPES. Those pipes which transport sewage, storm water or potable water of a single building into the common sanitary sewer main or storm sewer or water main.
SEWAGE SLUDGE. The solid, semi-solid, or liquid residue generated during the treatment of domestic sewage in a treatment works. SEWAGE SLUDGE includes, but is not limited to, domestic septage, scum, and solids removed during primary, secondary, or advanced wastewater treatment processes. The definition of SEWAGE SLUDGE also includes a material derived from sewage sludge (i.e., sewage sludge whose quality is changed either through further treatment or through mixing with other materials).
STORM SEWERS. Sewer mains, pipes or outlets of the city used for the discharge of storm water, surface water, ground water, roof run-off, subsurface drainage or other matter not commonly discharged into sewers used for sanitary purposes, as established by Ordinance 63-7, passed and adopted on March 25, 1963.
WATER MAINS. Those mains of the city used for the collection, transmission, distribution and sale of potable water for all purposes for which water may be used and are a part of the combined waterworks and sewerage system of the city as established by Ordinance 63-7, passed and adopted on March 25, 1963.
(Ord. 94-39, passed 11-14-94; Am. Ord. 08-39, passed 11-10-08)