Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meanings of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
BUILDING Any structure, including a mobile home, that requires a supply of potable water and/or a means of disposal of wastewater.
CAPITAL EXPENDITURES Expenditures, including principal and interest on bonds, which are made for additions to or improvements of the systems.
CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS The payments required to be made by the City of Roseville to the County of Macomb pursuant to the provisions of existing sewer contracts between said parties for the financing of improvements to the systems under the provisions of Act 342 of the Public Acts of Michigan 1939, as amended.
DEPARTMENT The Department of Water and Sewers charged with operating and maintaining the wastewater system.
DIRECTOR The person appointed by the city to manage the Department of Water and Sewers.
[Amended 7-27-1999 by Ord. No. 1125]
DWELLING UNIT A building, or a unit thereof, including an apartment, house trailer or mobile home, occupied by one or more persons as a residence, with a single set of culinary facilities, intended for a single family.
MUNICIPALITY The City of Roseville, County of Macomb, State of Michigan.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE COSTS All direct and/or indirect costs, other than debt service, necessary to ensure adequate wastewater collection and treatment on a continuing basis in conformance with related federal, state and local requirements. These costs include replacement costs and payments made to other agencies for wastewater disposal.
PERSON Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or other legal entity.
PREMISES A parcel of real estate owned by a person served as a single user by a wastewater disposal outlet. Each mobile home is considered separately as a premises.
RECURRING RATES AND CHARGES Sewer use rates and any other rates and charges hereinafter established or established by resolution of the City Council, which are payable in installments or on a recurring basis.
REPLACEMENT COSTS Expenditures for obtaining and installing replacement equipment, accessories or appurtenances that are necessary to maintain the capacity and performance of the existing systems.
SANITARY SEWAGE Usual domestic sewage or equivalent sewage, not including industrial sewage as herein defined, from all sources.
USER The owner or occupant of any premises connected to and/or using any of the facilities operated by the Department of Water and Sewers.
WASTEWATER OR SEWAGE Spent water which may be a combination of the liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, institutions or other uses, including drainage water inadvertently present in said waste.
WASTEWATER SYSTEM or SEWER SYSTEM Any part or all of the property, structures, equipment, sewers, materials and/or appurtenances used in conjunction with the collection and disposal of wastewater.