Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise,
the meaning of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
American Society for Testing and Materials.
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days
at 20º C., expressed in milligrams per liter (mg/l).
Any person, persons or corporation that undertakes to construct,
either under contract or for resale, any habitable building.
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
lateral, beginning five feet outside the inner face of the building
wall.
The extension from the building sewer drain to the public
sewer or other place of disposal.
Any person, firm or corporation approved by the Town Board
to do work in the town.
Any person, persons or corporation that undertakes to construct
more than one housing unit on a given tract or land subdivision.
The professional engineer retained as Town Engineer for the
Town of Geneva.
Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing
of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
The liquid wastes from industrial processes.
A self-contained apartment or a portion of a private dwelling
occupied by a person or persons living independent and separate from
the other occupants of the building.
That portion or the building sewer lateral extending from
the public sewer to the property line, said "municipal lateral" being
a part of the public sewer.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface or ground water.
New York State Department of Transportation.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the concentration of hydrogen
ions in grams-ionic weights per liter of solution.
The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of
food that has been shredded to such 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.
The street line or the actual property line on the equivalent
lateral whenever the building sewer connects with the public sewer
in a public street, and shall mean the edge of a sewer right-of-way
in those instances where the building sewer connects to the public
sewer in a right-of-way.
A sanitary sewer within the street or highway limits, easements
or other rights of way which is under the control of the town.
A sewer which transports sewage and to which stormwater,
surface water and groundwaters are not admitted.
A combination of the water-carried waste from residences,
business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments.
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating
sewage.
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing
of sewage.
A pipe or conduit for transporting sewage.
A pipe or conduit which transports stormwater, surface waters
and drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes.
The Superintendent of Sewers of the Town of Geneva, his or
her authorized deputy, agent or representative, the Watershed Inspector
or the appropriate enforcement officer designated by the Town Board
or other appropriate authority.
Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension
in water, sewage or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory
filtering.
The duly elected Town Board of the Town of Geneva or its
authorized deputy or representative.
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.
"Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
