Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
(a) "Authority" means a government or public agency created to perform a single function or a restricted group of related activities. Usually such units are financed from service charges, fees, and tolls, but in some instances they also have taxing powers. An authority may be completely independent of other governments for its creation, its financing, or the exercise of certain powers.
(b) "Biochemical Oxygen Demand" (BOD) means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter in a specified time and at a specified temperature, usually at five days and 20o C.
(c) "Capital costs" means costs of major rehabilitation, betterments, expansion or upgrading required as facilities reach the end of their useful life.
(d) "Capital outlay" means expenditures which result in the acquisition of or addition to fixed assets.
(e) "Collection System" means the sewer lines and appurtenances used and useful in the collection and conveyance of wastewater. See also wastewater system.
(f) "Commercial User" means all retail stores, restaurants, office buildings, laundries, and other private business and service establishments.
(g) "Governmental" shall include legislative, judicial, administrative, and regulatory activities of Federal, State, and local governments.
(h) "Grantee" means a municipality that has executed a Federal grant agreement.
(i) "Improvements" means buildings, other structures, and other attachments or annexations to land which are intended to remain so attached or annexed, such as sidewalks, trees, drives, tunnels, drains, and sewers. Sidewalks, curbing, sewers, and highways are sometimes referred to as "betterments," but the term "improvements" is preferred.
(j) "Industrial User" means any nongovernmental, nonresidential user of publicly owned treatment works which is identified in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1972, Office of Management and Budget, as amended and supplemented, under the following division: Division A - Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing; Division B - Mining; Division D - Manufacturing; Division E - Transportation, Communications, Electric, Gas, and Sanitary; and Division I - Services.
(k) "Institutional" shall include social, charitable, religious, and educational activities such as schools, churches, hospitals, nursing homes, penal institutions and similar institutional users.
(l) "May" is permissive; "shall" is mandatory.
(m) "Normal Strength Wastewater" as defined for the purpose of determining surcharges means wastewater having an average daily suspended solids concentration of not more than 240 mg/1, an average daily BOD5 of not more than 200 mg/1, and containing not more than 100 mg/1 of Freon soluble matter (grease and oil).
(n) "Operation and maintenance" means those functions that result in expenditures during the useful life of the treatment works for materials, labor, utilities, and other items which are necessary for managing and maintaining the sewage works to achieve the capacity and performance for which such works were designed and constructed.
(o) "Replacement" means expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories, or appurtenances which are necessary during the useful life of the treatment works to maintain the capacity and performance for which such works were designed and constructed. The term "operation and maintenance" (O & M) includes replacement.
(p) "Replacement costs" means the cost as of a certain date of a property which can render similar service (but which need not be of the same structural form) as the property to be replaced. Replacement is an incremental element of operating costs and is variable depending upon levels of expenditures for maintenance. The statutory definition of the term means expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories or appurtenances during the useful life of the treatment works necessary to maintain the capacity and performance for which they were designed and constructed. It is not a capital costs and does not increase the book value of an asset.
(q) "Residential" includes all dwelling units such as detached, semi-detached, rowhouses, mobile homes and multi-family dwellings.
(r) "Service charge" means a charge levied on a user of the treatment works which includes a user charge, a charge for capital reserve and debt service, other charges for current services, or all of these.
(s) "Service solids" means solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension in water, wastewater, or other liquids and that are removable by a standard laboratory filtering procedure.
(t) "Useful Life" means the estimated period during which a treatment works will be operated.
(u) "User" means recipient of wastewater treatment services.
(v) "User Charge" means a charge levied on users of a treatment works for the cost of operation and maintenance including replacement.
(w) "Wastewater System" (wastewater facility) means a collective term used to denote all the property involved in the operation of a wastewater treatment utility. In includes land, sewer lines and appurtenances, pumping stations, treatment plants, and general property. See also wastewater utility. Synonym: Sewer System.
(x) "Water meter" means a water volume measuring and recording device, furnished and/or installed by a user and approved by the Municipality.
(Ord. 86-004. Passed 4-30-86.)