A. 
As used in this Part 1:
(1) 
Words in the masculine gender also include the feminine and neuter genders.
(2) 
Words in the singular also include the plural.
(3) 
Words in the plural include the singular.
B. 
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meanings of the terms used in the Part 1 shall be as follows:
ASTM
The American Society for Testing and Materials.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
The Board of Trustees of the Village of Montgomery.
BOD (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. (68° F.) expressed in parts per million (ppm) or milligrams per liter (mg/l).
BUILDING DRAIN
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a building drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste and other drainage pipes inside the walls of any building and conveys such discharge to the building sewers beginning three feet outside of the outer face of the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER
That part of the horizontal piping of a drainage system which extends from the end of the building drain and which receives the discharge of the building drain and conveys it to a Village sewer. The materials used to connect the building sewer to the Village sewer shall be deemed part of the "building sewer."
COOLING WATER
The water discharge from any system of condensation, air conditioning, cooling or refrigeration and carrying no contamination other than abnormal heat.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
The Orange County Department of Health.
DISPOSAL SYSTEM
The entire system of sewers, treatment facilities and their appurtenances for collecting and treating sewage, industrial waste and other wastes.
DRAINAGE DISCHARGES
Stormwater surface runoff, groundwater, roof runoff and the like.
ENGINEER
The Village Engineer or the engineering consultant assigned to the Water and Sewer Board.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the domestic or commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food or from handling, storage and sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL PROCESS WATERS OR PROCESS WATERS
The waters which are ordinarily a constituent part of and are polluted by industrial wastes.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
Any liquid, gaseous, solid or other waste substances or a combination thereof resulting from any process of industry, manufacturing, trade or business or from the development or recovery of any natural resources.
INTERCEPTOR
A device designated and installed so as to separate and retain deleterious, hazardous or otherwise undesirable matter, such as grease, oil or sand, from wastes.
NATIONAL CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD
Any regulation promulgated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency which contains pollutant discharge limits in accordance with Section 307(b) and (c) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.) which applies to a specific category of industrial users.
NYSDEC
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
OTHER WASTES
Garbage, refuse, decayed wood, sawdust, shavings, bark, sand, lime, cinders, ashes, offal, oil, tar, dye stuffs, acids, chemicals and all other discarded matter not sewage or industrial waste.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, 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.
POLLUTED
The alteration of the biological, chemical, radiological or aesthetic integrity of water from the presence of sewage, industrial waste or other waste.
PRIVATE (when used as a modifier)
Those facilities not owned by the Village or a public entity.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
Garbage that has been shredded to such a degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in Village sewers, with no particle greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
PUBLIC
Those facilities owned or operated by a sewage works corporation under the Transportation Corporations Law or by a governmental entity other than the Village.
RECEIVING WATER
A natural watercourse or any other body of surface or ground water into which treated or untreated sewage is discharged.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which is intended to carry only sewage.
SCAVENGER WASTES
The human fecal matter collected from privies, septic tanks, cesspools, recreational vehicles and chemical toilets.
SEWAGE
The water-carried human or animal wastes from residences, buildings, industrial establishments or other places, together with such groundwater infiltration and surface water as may be inadvertently present.
SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM
The entire system of sewers, treatment facilities and their appurtenances for collecting and treating sewage.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying water-carried wastes.
SEWER SYSTEM
The entire system of sewers and their appurtenances for collecting sewage, industrial waste and other wastes.
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER
Any industrial user who has a flow of 25,000 gallons [or 3,342 cubic feet] or more per day, has a flow greater than 5% of the flow in the Village sewer system or has in his wastes a toxic pollutant(s) as defined pursuant to Article VI or who is subject to a National Categorical Pretreatment Standard or is found by the Village to have significant impact, either singly or in combination with other contributing industries, on the Village disposal system.
SLOPE
The grade or pitch of a line of pipe in reference to a horizontal plane. In a drainage context it is usually expressed as the fall on a fraction of an inch per foot length of pipe.
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 flow during normal operation.
SPDES (STATE POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM)
The system established pursuant to Article 17 of the Environmental Conservation Law for the issuance of permits authorizing discharges to the waters of the state.
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN
A sewer which is intended to carry only drainage discharges, not sewage, industrial wastes or other wastes.
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.
TOXIC SUBSTANCE
Any substance or combination of substances, including disease-causing agents, which when discharged and exposed, ingested, inhaled or assimilated into any organism, either directly from the environment or indirectly through food chains, will, on the basis of information available to the NYSDEC, cause death, disease, behavioral abnormalities, cancer, genetic mutations, physiological malfunctions, including malfunctions in reproduction, or physical deformations in such organisms or their offspring.
TREATMENT PLANT or SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
Any arrangement of devices, structures and facilities used to treat sewage, industrial wastes and/or other wastes.
UNREASONABLE ADVERSE EFFECTS
Any unreasonable risk of harm.
USEPA
The United States Environmental Protection Agency.
VILLAGE
The Village of Montgomery. When used as a modifier, "Village" shall mean those facilities and their appurtenances which are owned and/or operated by the Village.
WASTE
Any discarded substance.
WATER AND SEWER BOARD
The duly constituted Water and Sewer Board of the Village acting in its official capacity or its authorized representative.[1]
WPCF
The Water Pollution Control Federation.
[1]
Editor's Note: The Water and Sewer Board of the Village of Montgomery was abolished 4-23-1999 by L.L. No. 3-1999. The powers and duties previously delegated to the Water and Sewer Board by the Board of Trustees were assumed by the Board of Trustees. Any references to the Water and Sewer Board and its powers and duties found in the Code of the Village of Montgomery were deemed to refer to the Board of Trustees henceforth.