Words defined. Unless the context specifically indicates
otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
ASTM
The latest edition of American Society for Testing and Materials.
BUILDER
Any person, persons or corporation who undertakes to construct,
either under contract or for resale within two years, any habitable
building.
BUILDING DRAIN
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system
which receives the discharge from 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.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal.
CONTRACTOR
Any person, firm or corporation appearing on the approved
list of licensed plumbers as periodically published by the Division
of Drainage and Sanitation of the Department of Public Works of the
County of Onondaga.
DEVELOPER
Any person, persons or corporation who undertakes to construct
simultaneously more than one housing unit on a given tract or land
subdivision.
DIVISION
The Division of Drainage and Sanitation of the Department
of Public Works of the County of Onondaga, or its lawful successor.
[Amended 8-24-1982 by L.L. No. 4-1982]
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing
of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The liquid wastes from industrial processes as distinct from
sanitary sewage.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface or ground water.
OWNER
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, person
or group having title to real property.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
PLUMBING INSPECTOR
The person employed by the Division of Drainage and Sanitation
of the Department of Public Works of the County of Onondaga to inspect
sewers.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of
food that have been shredded to such a degree that all particles will
be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in
public sewers, with no particle greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
PROPERTY LINE
The curbline if the building sewer is to connect with the
public sewer in a public street. "Property line" shall mean the nearest
edge of a sewer right-of-way in those instances where the building
sewer connects to the public sewer in a right-of-way.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal
rights, and is controlled by public authority.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm-, surface
and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE
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.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SEWERAGE WORKS
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing
of sewage.
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN
A sewer which carries storm- and surface waters and drainage,
but excludes sewage and polluted industrial wastes.
VILLAGE ENGINEER
The professional engineer retained as "Village Engineer"
for the Village of Manlius, or his authorized deputy, agent or representative.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.