A. 
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
BOARD OF SEWER COMMISSIONERS
The Board of Sewer Commissioners appointed by the Board of Trustees in accordance with § 3-308 of the Village Law and charged with administering the sewerage system of the Village of Pomona.
BOD (denoting "biochemical oxygen demand")
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20° C., expressed in milligrams per liter.
BUILDING DRAIN
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a sewer system which receives the discharge from soil, waste and other drainage pipes inside the walls of a building and conveys it to the building sewer, at a point five feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension of the pipe from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
CODE ENFORCEMENT OFFICER
The Code Enforcement Officer of the Village of Pomona.
[Amended 2-8-1988 by L.L. No. 1-1988]
DISCOLORATION
An intensity of color in the untreated waste which is less than 80% luminance as determined by the spectrophotometric method defined by Standard Methods, and shall also mean such color as will, in combination with domestic wastes, not be susceptible to removal by secondary treatment methods used for domestic wastes.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
HEALTH OFFICER
The Health Officer or the person duly licensed by the Public Health Law, State of New York, or other applicable law, and performing the duties of Health Officer of this municipality.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
Any liquid, gaseous, solid or waste substance, or a combination thereof, resulting from any process of industry, manufacturing, trade or business or from the development or recovery of any natural resources, which may cause or might reasonably be expected to cause pollution of the waters of the state in contravention of the standards adopted in the Public Health Law.
JOINT REGIONAL SEWERAGE BOARD
The Board governing the Joint Sewerage Project.
MUNICIPALITY
The Village of Pomona.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.
pH
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
PRIVATE SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM
Those septic tanks, cesspools, sewage disposal devices or subsurface drainage systems in connection with the foregoing serving or designed to serve residential, business or commercial structures and any establishment producing industrial wastes.
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.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sewer which is owned or controlled by municipal or public authority.
SANITARY SEWAGE
The liquid and intermixed solid wastes from homes or other structures, exclusive of industrial wastes or storm- and surface waters and drainage.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carries sanitary sewage and to which storm-, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE
A combination of sanitary sewage and industrial waste, together with such ground-, surface and storm waters as may be present.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
SEWAGE WORKS
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SLUG
Any discharge of water, sewage or industrial waste which in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow exceeds for any period of duration longer than 15 minutes more than five times the average twenty-four-hour concentration or flows during normal operation.
STORM DRAIN (sometimes termed "storm sewer")
A sewer which carries storm- and surface waters and drainage but excludes sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling waters.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
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.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
B. 
The term "shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.