For the purpose of this chapter, certain terms and words are to be used and interpreted as defined hereinafter:
CUSTOMER: The owner or property served by a water connection, or tenant, lessee, renter, establishment, institution or occupant of such property, or the person in or against whose name the water connection for such property is listed on the books and records of the city of Perkins and who is responsible to the city for the payment of bills incurred for water furnished to the property, and for by such property of the sanitary sewage system of the city, either or both.
SANITARY SEWAGE: The liquid waste which may or may not contain solids discharged into the sanitary sewage system from a dwelling, business building, factory, institution, or other property.
SANITARY SEWAGE SYSTEM: Includes all sanitary sewer trunk lines, main lines, submain lines, lateral lines, and sewage treatment plants, and all sewer lines connected to the city sewage treatment plants, whether owned by the city or not.
USER: A water customer, as defined in this section, whose property also discharges sanitation into the sanitary sewage system of the city of Perkins. (2010 Code § 19-28)