913.01 DEFINITIONS.
   The following definitions shall apply to this chapter:
   (a)   "Act" means the Safe Drinking Water Act as amended, 42 U.S.C. 300 et seq.
   (b)   "Benefit" means a sewage or wastewater discharge of 400 gallons per day which is the estimated flow from a single family dwelling.
   (c)   "Contaminant" means any physical, chemical, biological or radiological substance or matter in water.
   (d)   "County" means the County of Summit, Ohio.
   (e)   "County Executive" means the chief executive officer of the County of Summit elected and serving as provided by the Charter of the County of Summit.
   (f)   "Director" means the Director of the Department of Sanitary Sewer Services of the County, or an authorized deputy, agent or representative.
   (g)   "Person" means any individual, firm, company, municipal or private corporation, partnership, copartnership, joint stock company, trust, association, institution, enterprise, governmental agency, the State of Ohio, the United States of America, or other legal entity, or their representatives, agents, or assigns. The masculine gender shall include the feminine, the singular shall include the plural where indicated by the context.
   (h)   "Public waterline" means a waterline provided by or subject to the jurisdiction of the County.
   (i)   "Summit County Metropolitan Sewer District" includes all territory in Summit County except that located in: the cities of Akron, Barberton, and Twinsburg; the portion of Cuyahoga Falls not served by County water or sewer systems; the portion of Tallmadge not served by the Fishcreek sanitary sewer system; the Villages of Hudson, Northfield and Peninsula; and the portion of Copley Township bounded on the west side by Jacoby Road, on the south by Copley Road, on the east by North Plainview Drive and/or the centerline of North Plainview Drive extended northerly, and on the north by the right-of-way line of the A.C. & Y. Railroad.
   (j)   "User" means a person who receives water from a County waterline.
   (k)   "User charge" means the fee structure imposed by the County upon all persons served by the County water system.
   (l)   "Waterline" means the pipe through which water is distributed to users.
   (m)   "Water service connection" means the line running from the County waterline to the user's residence or business of which the portion from the waterline to and including the curb box shall be owned and maintained by the County and the portion from the curb box to the user's structure shall be owned and maintained by the user.
   (n)   "Water system" means all the facilities for the production, treating, pumping, storing and distribution of potable water. It shall not include plumbing inside buildings or the line running from a building to the curb box.
      (Res. 92-824. Approved 12-29-92; Ord. 2015-555. Adopted 12-14-15.)