The following definitions are applicable wherever these terms are used in this chapter:
CHRONICALLY DELINQUENT CUSTOMER: A customer of the city who, on an average taken over his past payment history (not to exceed 12 months) pays his bill to the city forty (40) days or more after the due date.
CITY: City of Sunland Park.
COMMERCIAL UNIT: Includes individual commercial enterprises, and in case of ownership or operation by the same entity, is those enterprises under different names.
CROSS CONNECTION: Any physical connection or arrangement between two (2) otherwise separate piping systems, one of which contains potable water and the other of unknown or questionable safety, or an unmetered supply, whereby water may flow from one system to the other, the direction of flow depending on the pressure differential between the two (2) systems.
CUSTOMER: Any person, firm, association, corporation, or any agency of the federal, state, or local government, being supplied with, desiring or responsible for payment for, water or related services by the city.
LARGE COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL UNIT: Any person, firm, association, corporation, or any agency of the federal, state, or local government being supplied with, desiring or responsible for payment for water or related services by the city for commercial related services with a water meter size of two inches (2") or greater and/or a wastewater BODs greater than two hundred fifty milligrams per liter (250 mg/I).
LIVING UNIT: Includes individual townhouses, single-family dwelling, or individual condominium. It does not include individual rooms in hotels or motels.
MUNICIPAL LINE: All main and lateral lines within roadways, streets, city owned land, alleys or easements.
NORMAL SERVICE PRESSURE: The range of thirty five (35) to one hundred twenty five (125) pounds can ordinarily be made available in areas contiguous to existing lines.
POINT OF DELIVERY: At the property line, designated by city owned valve.
PRACTITIONER OF THE HEALING ARTS: A doctor of medicine, doctor of osteopathy, doctor of dental surgery, or doctor of chiropractic.
PRESSURE REGULATING DEVICE: A device that maintains a constant water pressure at its immediate downstream side which is less than the inlet pressure to the device, unless the pressure on the inlet side is lower than the pressure setting for the downstream side.
RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMER UNIT: Any individual or person(s) being supplied with, desiring or responsible for payment for water or related services by the city exclusively for domestic services. Residential service includes single-family housing units and apartments with individual meters for each dwelling.
SERIOUSLY ILL PERSON: A person residing in a living unit to which the city supplies water, whose life would be endangered in the event of termination of such service.
SERVICE LINE: The pipe connection from a distribution water main to the water meter.
SMALL COMMERCIAL UNIT: Any person, firm, association, corporation, or any agency of the federal, state, or local government being supplied with, desiring or responsible for payment for water or related services by the city for commercial related services with a water meter size less than two inches (2") for domestic water use type services. Commercial service includes retail stores, garages, restaurants, clubs, schools, churches, municipal, state, and federal buildings.
TERMINATION: Disconnection of water service.
TERMINATION NOTICE: A notice sent to a customer that his service will be terminated for nonpayment of service, giving the customer fifteen (15) days after mailing (excluding Saturdays, Sundays and holidays observed by the city) in which to pay his account in full.
WATER MASTER PLAN: The official plan adopted by the city council to guide decisions of the city of Sunland Park with regard to the future growth, development and operation of the municipal water system.
WATER PRESSURE: The gauge pressure of water within a pipe measured in pounds per square inch above atmospheric pressure and abbreviated herein as "pounds".
WATER SERVICE: The general term for furnishing the customer with water. (Ord. 1985-01, 3-5-1985; amd. Ord. 1987-15, 8-4-1987; Ord. 04-02, 1-20-2004)