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Definitions. Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
ASTM
American Society for Testing and Materials.
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 (mg/l).
BUILDER
Any person, persons or corporation that undertakes to construct, either under contract or for resale, any habitable building.
BUILDING SEWER DRAIN
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.
BUILDING SEWER LATERAL
The extension from the building sewer drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
CONTRACTOR
Any person, firm or corporation approved by the Village Board to do work in the Village.
DEVELOPER
Any person, persons or corporation that undertakes to construct more than one housing unit on a given tract or land subdivision.
ENGINEER
The professional engineer retained as Village Engineer for the Village of Canisteo.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The liquid wastes from industrial processes.
LIVING UNIT
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.
MUNICIPAL LATERAL
That portion of the building sewer lateral extending from the public sewer to the property line, said municipal lateral being a part of the public sewer.
NYSDOT
New York State Department of Transportation.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface water or groundwater.
OWNER
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, person or group having title to real property.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.
pH
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the concentration of hydrogen ions in grams-ionic weights per liter of solution.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
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.
PROPERTY LINE
The inner sidewalk line or the actual property line on the equivalent lateral whenever the building sewer connects to 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.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sanitary sewer within the street or highway limits, easements or other rights-of-way, which is under the control of the Village.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which transports sewage and to which stormwater, surface water, and ground water are not admitted.
SEWAGE
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments.
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 transporting sewage.
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN
A pipe or conduit which transports stormwater, surface water and drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes.
SUPERINTENDENT
The Superintendent of Public Works of the Village of Canisteo or his authorized deputy, agent or representative.
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.
VILLAGE
The Village of Canisteo, New York.
VILLAGE BOARD or BOARD OF TRUSTEES
The duly elected Board of Trustees of the Village of Canisteo or its authorized deputy or representative.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
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Word usage. "Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.