For the purposes of this chapter and Chapter 52, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
FIXTURE. Any receptacle for the reception of house sewage.
HOUSE DRAINS. The horizontal pipes laid from the sewer to or near the building, and there connected with the pipes constituting the interior drainage system.
IMPROVED PROPERTY. Property on which a structure is located.
MULTI-USER. Any use where there is more than one structure on a single meter or where there is one structure containing multiple residential (dwelling) units such as hotels, motels and condominiums.
SINGLE-USER. Any use on a single meter not included in the multi-user definition above.
SOIL PIPE. Any pipe conveying the discharge of a water closet, with or without the addition of smaller fixtures.
STRUCTURE. By way of illustration and not by way of limitation, any dwelling cottage, dwelling house, apartment house, hotel, motel, house trailer, mobile home, commercial building, office building, rooming house, or any unit in a group housing development, planned unit development, townhouse, condominium development, motorized home, self-contained travel trailer, travel trailer, or other structure.
TRAP. A specially curved pipe or receptacle so placed in a line of soil or waste pipe that enough passing water will be held to completely fill the channel and thus seal it to prevent the passage of air or gas through the trap.
WASTE PIPE. Any pipe conveying the discharge of any fixture, other than a water closet, to the house drain or soil pipe.
(1983 Code, § 17-1) (Ord. passed 9-22-1961; Am. Ord. passed 4-14-1992; Am. Motion passed 8-13-2013; Am. Ord. 2014-01, passed 11-12-2013)