913.01 DEFINITIONS.
The following words when used in this chapter shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section. All adjectives and adverbs such as adequate, approved, attractively, clean, good, qualified, reasonable, reliable, reputable, safe, sanitary, satisfactory, sufficiently, suitable, material or well, used in these sections to qualify a person, equipment, building or place shall be determined by the Commissioner of Health, taking into account the number of inhabitants, the inhabitant's general health and age, the dwellings or buildings involved along with their proximity to other persons, the soil condition, the availability or lack thereof of sanitary facilities and the standards otherwise set forth herein taken as a whole.
(a) "Department of Health" means the Whitehall Department of Health and/or such agency as may be designated by the City to perform the services of the Whitehall Department of Health on a contract basis.
(b) "Commissioner of Health" means the person designated as the Commissioner of Health by ordinance or by contract.
(c) "Representative of Department of Health" means and includes any person, officially authorized by the Commissioner of Health to represent him or the Department of Health.
(d) "Person" means and includes person, firm, corporation, association or partnership.
(e) "Public" means and includes village, township, sanitary district, conservancy district or any special district created by law.
(f) "Semi-public" means and includes a public or privately owned building, or place used for the assemblage, entertainment, recreation, education, correction, hospitalization, housing or employment of persons, private residence or dwelling.
(g) "Potable water" means and includes water suitable for drinking and ordinary purposes.
(h) "Contamination" means and includes the presence of a certain amount of undesirable substance or material which may contain pathogenic micro-organisms.
(i) "Impure" means and includes water which is unclean or adulterated with a foreign substance.
(j) "Plumbing and plumbing system" means and includes the water supply distributing pipes; the fixtures and fixture traps; the soil, waste and the building drain with their devices, appurtenances and connections, adjacent to a building.
(k) "House sewer" means and includes that part of the building drainage system which connects the building drain, at a point three to five feet outside the building wall, with the public sanitary sewer or sewage tank with the leaching or filtering device or other outlet.
(l) "Garbage" means and includes all wastes of putrescible nature produced in household, hotel and restaurant kitchens; also wastes of vegetable, animal, fish or fowl origin, from markets, groceries and similar establishments.
(Ord. 49-66. Passed 5-17-66.)