The following words and terms, when used in this article, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
(a) "Commercial wastes" means the wastes generated from a commercial operation as distinct from domestic, and industrial sewage.
(b) "Domestic sewage" means the water-borne waste derived from ordinary living processes.
(c) "Garbage" means solid waste from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
(d) "Garbage grinders" means a mechanical device which shreds or grinds food for the purpose of sewage disposal.
(e) "Ground garbage" means the residue from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food that has been shredded to such degree that all particles shall be carried freely in suspension under the normal flow conditions prevailing in the sewer conduit to which they are contributory and those prevailing in public sewers with no particle greater than one-half inch in any dimension.
(f) "Industrial wastes" means the wastes from industrial processes as distinct from domestic, and commercial sewage.
(g) "Interceptor" means a device designed and installed so as to separate and retain deleterious, hazardous, or undesirable matter from normal wastes, while permitting normal sewage or wastes to discharge into the drainage system by gravity.
(h) "Person" means any individual, partnership, firm, company, corporation, association, joint stock company, trust, estate, governmental entity or any other legal entity, or their legal representatives, agents or assigns. The masculine gender shall include the feminine, the singular shall include the plural where indicated by the context.
(i) "Publicly Owned Treatment Works" or "POTW" means a treatment works as defined by section 212 of the Act, which is owned by a state or municipality (as defined by section 502(4) of the Act). This definition includes any devices and systems used in the storage, treatment, recycling and reclamation of municipal sewage or industrial wastes of a liquid nature. It also includes sewers, pipes and other conveyances only if they convey wastewater to a POTW Treatment Plant. The term also means the Municipality as defined in section 502(4) of the Act, which has jurisdiction over the Indirect Discharges to and the discharges from such a treatment work [40 CFR 403.3(o)].
(j) "Sanitary sewer" means a sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
(k) "Sewage" means a combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together with such ground, surface and storm waters as may be present.
(l) "Sewage works" means all facilities for collection, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage (see Publicly Owned Treatment Works-POTW).
(m) "Storm water" means storm water runoff, snow melt runoff, and surface runoff and drainage.
(n) "Storm sewer or storm drain" means a sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and polluted industrial wastes.
(o) "General Manager" means the General Manager of the York City Wastewater Treatment Plant or his duly authorized representative.
(p) "Treatment plant" means the York City Wastewater Treatment Plant, 1701 Black Bridge Road, York, PA 17402.
(Ord. 12-2000. Passed 6-20-00.)