(a) "Administrator" means the Village Administrator of the Municipality.
(b) "BOD" (denoting biochemical oxygen demand) means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure, in five days at twenty degrees Centigrade, expressed in parts per million by weight.
(c) "Debt service" means the funds used for the retirement of and interest on bonds and/or notes authorized and issued by the Municipality to construct sewage system facilities.
(d) "Commercial user" means retail or wholesale business establishments that discharge wastewater into the public sewerage system.
(e) "Industrial user" includes users discharging waste resulting from manufacturing activities involving the mechanical or chemical transformation of materials or substances into other products. These activities occur in establishments usually described as plants, factories, or mills and characteristically use power-driven machines and material handling equipment.
(f) "Institutional/governmental" means hospitals, nursing homes, schools, City, county, state or federal buildings or facilities that discharge wastewater into the public wastewater treatment system, works, and facility.
(g) "Normal domestic sewage" means sewage which when analyzed shows by weight a daily average of not more than 200 parts per million of suspended solids and not more than 250 parts per million of biochemical oxygen demand (BOD).
(h) "Operation and maintenance costs" means the costs incurred in the act of keeping all facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage in a good state of repair and functioning properly including the replacement of said facilities when necessary.
(i) "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.
(j) "Residential user" means any housing or unit of housing used as a residence that discharges domestic wastewater into the public sewerage system.
(k) "Sewer service charge" means the total charge levied against users of the sewage system for sewer service. The charge shall include user charges plus the cost of debt service.
(l) "Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
(m) "Suspended solids" means solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension in water, sewage, or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory filtering.
(n) "User charge" means the charge assessed users of the sewage system to recover the cost of operation, maintenance, and replacement of the sewage collection and sewage treatment system and the cost of rendering bills and collecting sewer service charges.
(Ord. 1994-51. Passed 11-1-94.)