This chapter is promulgated and adopted pursuant to the authority granted
by Title 21, Chapter 2 of the Code of Virginia, 1950, as amended.
A.
This chapter is titled "An Ordinance Establishing the
Hookup Fees, Service Charges, Rules and Regulations Governing the Use and
Operation of the Mathews County Courthouse Sanitary District, Mathews, Virginia."
B.
Short title. This chapter also shall be known as or may
be cited as the "Mathews Courthouse Sanitary District Ordinance."
A.
Words and terms. Unless the context specifically indicates
otherwise, the meaning of words, terms, phrases and their derivatives used
herein shall be as follows below. When not inconsistent with their context,
meaning and intent, words used in the present tense include the future tense,
words in the plural number include the singular number, and words in the singular
number include the plural number. "Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
B.
APPLICATION
BOARD
BUILDING OFFICIAL (INSPECTOR)
CONNECTION/HOOKUP FEE
CONNECTOR
COUNTY
COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR (hereinafter referred to as "Administrator")
EQUIVALENT DWELLING UNIT (EDU)
FACILITIES OF THE SANITARY DISTRICT
FRANCHISE TERRITORY (SERVICE AREA)
FULL-TIME EMPLOYEE
GPD
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
LOCAL FACILITIES
OWNER or DEVELOPER
PERSON
PREMISES
PUBLIC SEWER
REMOTE FACILITIES
SANITARY DISTRICT (DISTRICT)
SANITARY DISTRICT SUPERVISOR
SANITARY SEWAGE (WASTEWATER)
SANITARY SEWER
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
STATE
TREASURER
VPDES PERMIT
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have
the meanings indicated:
The sanitary sewer service permit forms and all relevant and appurtenant
plans, specifications, renderings, information, data and other documentation
required by the Board or Administrator of a person formally requesting an
expanded, extended, additional or modified sewer service connection to the
facilities of the Sanitary District. A complete application also includes
all required connection/hookup fees and any other hookup and facility-related
charges or assessments.
The Board of Supervisors, the governing body of Mathews County, Virginia.
That person or his/her duly authorized representative directed and
authorized to supervise and enforce all the provisions of the Uniform Statewide
Building Code.
A charge paid for the authorization to connect a premises or improvement
to the facilities of the Mathews Courthouse Sanitary District.
A person connecting to the facilities of the Mathews Courthouse Sanitary
District.
Mathews County, Virginia.
The representative of the governing body of the Sanitary District
who has been appointed to serve as the agent of the governing body in administering
and enforcing this chapter.
The volume of wastewater flows estimated or projected to be generated
by a typical, single residential dwelling unit connected to the facilities
of the Mathews Courthouse Sanitary District.
Any and all component and appurtenant parts of the entire vacuum
and gravity systems and treatment and disposal facilities of sanitary sewer
utilities under the jurisdiction of the Sanitary District.
The territory included within the boundaries of the Mathews County
Courthouse Sanitary District.
A person employed to work 20 hours or more a work week on the premises
by a person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation who or which is
served by the facilities of the District.
Abbreviation for gallons per day.
The liquid and water-carried wastes from industrial or heavy commercial
processes. This term includes but is not limited to toxic, hazardous, poisonous
and flammable wastes and any other waste classified or deemed industrial by
state or federal regulatory agencies and any liquid-carried waste from industrial
or heavy commercial establishments which when treated by the sanitary treatment
plant causes the upset or bypass of the processes or operations thereof or
the violation of the District's fecal effluent standards.
Those portions of the sewer works and systems which are used respectively
to collect, transport and convey wastewater from an individual user or individual
users in local areas, subdivisions, and developments. Included are local wastewater
collection mains, wastewater lateral lines and vacuum valves and tanks to
a user's premises and other such facilities and appurtenances as are necessary.
Pump stations will be included when in accordance with approved plans and
built to serve the individual user or users in local areas, subdivisions and
developments.
Any person having an interest, whether legal or equitable, sole or
partial, in any premises which are, or may in the future be, served by the
facilities of the Sanitary District and who is or may in the future be responsible
for the design and construction of facilities to be under the jurisdiction
of and to become a part of the public utilities system of the Sanitary District.
Any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, association, society,
institution, group or legal entity.
Any building, group of buildings, or land upon which buildings are
to be constructed which is or may in the future be served by the facilities
of the Sanitary District.
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights
and which is controlled by the Sanitary District.
Those portions of the sewer works and system which are used directly
or indirectly to transport, convey, treat and dispose of wastewater from local
facilities. Included are sewer mains, pump stations, treatment plants, outfalls
and other such facilities and appurtenances as are necessary.
The Mathews County Courthouse Sanitary District, Mathews County,
Virginia, which was created and which functions under the authority granted
in Title 21, Chapter 2 of the Code of Virginia, 1950, as amended.
That person or his/her duly authorized representative directed and
authorized by the Board of Supervisors of the County of Mathews, Virginia,
to supervise the operation and maintenance of the facilities of the District.
That liquid and water-carried waste which derives from dwellings,
business buildings and institutions other than heavy commercial and industrial
establishments, exclusive of any stormwater, surface water or hazardous, toxic,
poisonous or flammable wastes.
A vacuum or gravity pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating and,
if applicable, for disposing of treated sewage in conformance with applicable
federal, state and local laws, regulations and permits.
The Commonwealth of Virginia.
The Treasurer of the County of Mathews, Virginia.
The Virginia Pollution Discharge Elimination System permit issued
by the Virginia Water Control Board to the operators of wastewater treatment
facilities authorizing the discharge of treated wastewater into the receiving
waters of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
