(a) Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meanings of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
(1) “Building drain” means that part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge of soil, waste, and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning five feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
(2) “Building sewer” means the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
(3) “Clerk” means the municipal clerk-treasurer, or designated deputy, agent or representative.
(4) “Garbage” means solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
(5) “Industrial wastes” means liquid wastes from industrial processes as distinct from sanitary sewage.
(6) “Natural outlet” means any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
(7) “Pit privy” means a building which is not connected to a sewer or septic tank and used for affording privacy to people while in the act of urination or defecation. They shall be constructed and maintained strictly in accordance with standards as prescribed by the U.S. Public Health Service.
(8) “Public sewer” means a sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights, and that is owned by the city or by the public.
(9) “Sanitary sewer” means a sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
(10) “Septic tank” means a private sewage disposal system consisting of a disposal tank and drain field in which a continuous flow of waste material is decomposed by anaerobic bacteria and which is constructed and maintained in strict accordance with standards as prescribed by the U.S. Public Health Service.
(11) “Sewage” means a combination of the water-carried wastes from the residences, business buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments, together with such ground, surface and storm waters as may be present.
(12) “Sewage treatment plant” means any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
(13) “Sewage works” means all facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage.
(14) “Sewer” means a pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
(15) “Storm sewage” or “storm drain” means a sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and polluted industrial wastes other than unpolluted cooling water.
(16) “Street” means streets, avenues, drives, boulevards, roads, alleys, lanes and viaducts, and all other public highways in the sanitary area.
(17) “Unit” means an office, apartment, or other facility having water provided, when used in the context of a multi-unit structure.
(18) “Watercourse” means a channel in which a flow of water occurs either continuously or intermittently.
(b) All other words shall be construed as having the meanings defined in the Glossary of Water and Sewage Control Engineering, published by the Water Pollution Control Federation, Washington, DC, or by their general usage or as otherwise defined in this code. (Ord. 2-88, 1988: prior code § 4-1-2)