Unless the context specifically and clearly indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms and phrases used in this Part 1 shall be as follows:
AUTHORITY
Greater Hazleton Joint Sewer Authority, a Pennsylvania municipality authority.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the sewage drainage system of any structure to the lateral of a sewer.
CITY
The City of Hazleton, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, acting by and through its City Council, or, in appropriate cases, by and through its authorized representatives.
IMPROVED PROPERTY
Any property located within this City upon which there is erected a structure intended for continuous or periodic habitation, occupancy or use by human beings or animals and from which structure sanitary sewage and/or industrial wastes shall be or may be discharged.
INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any improved property located in this City used wholly or in part for the manufacturing, processing, cleaning, laundering or assembly of any product, commodity or article, or any other improved property located in this City from which wastes, in addition to or other than sanitary sewage, are discharged.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
Any and all wastes discharged from an industrial establishment, other than sanitary sewage.
LATERAL
That part of the sewer system extending from a Sewer to the curbline or, if there shall be no curbline, extending to the property line or, if no such lateral shall be provided, then "lateral" shall mean that portion of, or place in, a sewer which is provided for connection of any building sewer.
OWNER
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole or partial, of any improved property.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, company, association, society, corporation or other group or entity.
SANITARY SEWAGE
Normal water-carried household and toilet wastes discharged from any improved property.
SEWER
Any pipe or conduit constituting a part of the sewer system used or usable for sewage collection purposes.
SEWER SYSTEM
All facilities, as of any particular time, for collecting, transporting, pumping, treating and/or disposing of sanitary sewage and/or industrial wastes, situate in this City, to be constructed, acquired, owned, maintained and operated by the Authority in, adjacent to and for certain portions of this City.