Unless
the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms
used in this article shall be as follows:
BOARD
The Board of Trustees, Township of Chesterfield, Macomb County,
Michigan.
BUILDING
Any structure, including a mobile home, which requires a
supply of potable water and/or a means of disposal of wastewater.
CAPITAL EXPENDITURES
Expenditures, including principal and interest on bonds,
that are made for additions to or improvements of the systems.
CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS
The payments required to be made by the township to the county
pursuant to the provisions of existing sewer and water contracts between
such parties for the financing of improvements to the systems under
the provisions of Act No. 342 of the Public Acts of Michigan of 1939,
as amended.
DEPARTMENT
The township sewer and water department charged with operating
and maintaining the water supply and wastewater systems.
DWELLING UNIT
A building, or a unit of a building, including an apartment,
house trailer, or mobile home, occupied by one or more persons as
a residence, with a single set of culinary facilities intended for
a single family.
MUNICIPALITY
The Township of Chesterfield, County of Macomb, State of
Michigan.
OPERATING AND MAINTENANCE COSTS
All direct and/or indirect costs, other than debt service,
necessary to ensure adequate wastewater collection and treatment and
to ensure an adequate and continuing water supply in conformance with
related federal, state and local requirements. Such costs include
replacement costs, depreciation and payments made to other agencies
for water supply and wastewater disposal.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or other legal entity.
PREMISES
A parcel of real estate owned by a person served as a single
user by a water supply outlet and/or a wastewater disposal outlet.
Each mobile home park is considered separately as a premises.
PUBLIC WATER MAIN
A water line under the control of the municipality or other
public agency and located in public easements or public rights-of-way.
RECURRING RATES AND CHARGES
Sewer and water use rates and any other rates and charges
established in this article, or established by resolution of the board,
which are payable in installments or on a recurring basis.
REPLACEMENT COSTS
Expenditures for obtaining and installing replacement equipment,
accessories or appurtenances necessary to maintain the capacity and
performance of the existing systems.
SANITARY SEWAGE
Usual domestic sewage or equivalent sewage, not including
industrial sewage as defined in this section, from all sources.
STOP VALVE or CURB STOP
The shut-off valve placed on a building service water supply
pipe located at or near a water supply outlet.
SUPERINTENDENT
The person appointed by the board to manage the sewer and
water department.
SYSTEMS
The wastewater system and the water supply system.
USER
The owner or occupant of any premises connected to and/or
using any of the facilities operated by the sewer and water department.
WASTEWATER or SEWAGE
Spent water which may be a combination of liquid and water-carried
wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, institutions
or other land uses, including drainagewater inadvertently present
in such waste.
WASTEWATER SYSTEM or SEWER SYSTEM
Any part or all of the property, structures, equipment, sewers,
materials and/or appurtenances used in conjunction with the collection
and disposal of wastewater.
WATER SERVICE
Any water supply conveyance pipe located outside of a building
connecting a premises with a public water main.
WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM
Any part or all of the property, structures, equipment, mains,
pipes, materials, meters and/or appurtenances used in conjunction
with the supply of potable water to water supply service customers.