As used in this chapter:
(a) Available Public Sanitary Sewer. The term "available public sanitary sewer" shall mean a publicly owned sanitary sewer system located in a right-of-way, easement, highway, street, or public way which crosses, adjoins or abuts upon a premises and passes not more than 200 hundred feet at the nearest point from a structure in which sanitary sewage originates. For purposes of this chapter, pressurized trunk sewers, greater than four inches in diameter, shall not be available for direct connection, except as may be approved by the Village and the County of Oakland.
(b) Benefited Properties. The term "benefited properties" shall mean all properties which will derive benefit from the construction of a sewer improvement.
(c) Building Sewers. The term "building sewers" shall mean the extension from the building drain that connects the building in which sanitary sewage originates to the public sewer or other place of disposal and conveys the sewage of only one building.
(d) Department. The term "Department" shall mean the Village Sewer Department.
(e) Direct Capital Connection Fee. The term "direct capital connection fee" shall mean the fee charged to a person who connects premises directly to the Village sanitary sewer system.
(f) Director or Sewer Director. The term "Director" or "Sewer Director" shall mean the Director of the Sewer Department, or his or her authorized representative, or such other individual as designated by the Village Council to oversee the Village's sewer system.
(g) Drain Commissioner. The term "Drain Commissioner" shall mean the office of the Oakland County Drain Commissioner.
(h) Indirect Capital Connection Fee. The term "indirect capital connection fee" shall mean the fee charged to a person who connects to the Village sanitary sewer system via extensions, which extensions were paid for at such person's expense.
(i) Lateral. The term "lateral" shall mean a pipe or conduit, located within the public right-of-way or an easement granted or dedicated to the public, which receives sanitary sewage from abutting properties.
(j) MDEQ. The term "MDEQ" shall mean the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, or any successor.
(k) Off-site sewer mains. The term "off-site sewer mains" shall mean sewer mains constructed off the premises of the owner to be served, which are necessary to afford service to the premises from trunk sewers not adjacent to the premises.
(l) Owner. The term "owner" shall include fee title holders, land contract purchasers, or anyone else having a beneficial interest in a property.
(m) Person. The term "person" shall mean any individual, corporation, firm, partnership, limited liability company, or other entity.
(n) Premises or Property. The terms "premises" and "property" shall mean the lands included within a single description as set forth from time to time on the Village tax roll as a single tax parcel in the name of a taxpayer or taxpayers at one address, but, in the case of platted lots, shall be limited to a single platted lot unless an existing building or structure is so located on more than one lot so as to make the same a single description for purposes of assessment or conveyance, now or hereafter.
(o) Private Sewage Disposal System. The term "private sewage disposal system" shall, mean a facility for the transportation, collection, processing or treatment of sanitary sewage owned by a non-governmental entity. The term shall include septic systems.
(p) Sanitary Sewer Master Plan. The term "Sanitary Sewer Master Plan" shall mean the latest draft of the Plan prepared by the Village's consulting sewer engineers and approved by the Village Council.
(q) Sanitary Sewer System or Village Sanitary Sewer System. The terms "sanitary sewer system" and "Village sanitary sewer system" shall mean the entire sanitary sewer system of the Village under public ownership.
(r) Septic System(s). The term "septic system(s)" shall mean the sanitary sewage treatment and/or disposal device installed to service an individual home, business or industrial establishment not connected to the sanitary sewer system.
(s) Sewage, Sanitary Sewage or Waste Water. The terms "sewage," "sanitary sewage" and "waste water" shall mean spent water which may be a combination of the liquid and water carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, or other land uses.
(t) Structure in Which Sanitary Sewage Originates or Structure. The terms "structure in which sanitary sewage originates" and "structure" shall mean a building in which toilet, kitchen, laundry, bathing or other facilities which generate water-carrying sewage are used for household, commercial, industrial or other purposes.
(u) Village Council. The term "Village Council" shall mean the elected Village Council of the Village.
(Ord. 135. Passed 5-10-00.)