For purposes of this Title, the following words and phrases
shall have the following meaning:
APPLICANT
Any individual, firm, partnership, corporation or other agency
owning land within the City applying for sanitary sewer service.
BOD (denoting Biochemical Oxygen Demand)
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five (5)
days at twenty degrees centigrade (20° C.), expressed in milligrams
per liter.
BUILDING 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
sanitary sewer, beginning five (5) feet (1.5 meters) outside the inner
face of the building wall.
BUILDING SANITARY SEWER
The extension from the building drain to the public sanitary
sewer or other place of disposal.
CIP
The Capital Improvement Program.
CITY
The words "the City" or "this City" or "City" shall mean
the City of Raymore, Missouri, a municipal corporation, and any duly
authorized representative.
CITY COUNCIL
The City of Raymore, Missouri, a municipal corporation, and
any duly authorized representative.
COLLECTION AND TREATMENT FACILITIES
Any devices and systems for the collection, storage, treatment,
recycling, and reclamation of municipal sewage, domestic sewage, or
liquid industrial waste. These include intercepting sewers, outfall
sewers, sewage collection systems, individual systems, pumping, power,
and other equipment and their appurtenances; extensions, improvements,
remodeling, additions and alterations; and any works, including site
acquisition of the land, that will be an integral part of the treatment
process or is used for ultimate disposal of residues; or any other
method or system or method for preventing, abating, reducing, storing,
treating, separating, or disposing of municipal waste or industrial
waste.
CONSUMER
The owner or person in control of any premises supplied by
or in any manner connected to a public water system.
CUSTOMER
Any individual, partnership, firm, association, or corporation
in whose name the utility service is provided.
DIVERT
To change the intended course or path of water and/or sanitary
sewer service without the express authorization or consent of the
City.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking, and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage, and
sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes,
trade, or business as distinct from sanitary sewage.
INSPECTOR
The person or persons duly authorized by the City of Raymore
to inspect and approve the installation of building sanitary sewers
and their connection to the public sanitary sewer system.
LEAD BASE MATERIALS
Any material containing lead in excess of the quantities
specified in the definition of "lead-free."
LEAD FREE
A.
In General.
1.
When used with respect to solder and flux, refers to solders
and flux containing not more than two tenths percent (0.2%) lead;
and
2.
When used with respect to pipes and pipe fittings, refers to
pipes and pipe fittings containing not more than twenty-five hundredths
percent (0.25%) lead.
B.
Calculation. The weighted average lead content of a pipe, pipe
fitting, plumbing fitting, or fixture shall be calculated by using
the following formula: For each wetted component, the percentage of
lead in the component shall be multiplied by the ratio of the wetted
surface area of that component to the total wetted surface area of
the entire product to arrive at the weighted percentage of lead of
the component. The weighted percentage of lead of each wetted component
shall be added together, and the sum of these weighted percentages
shall constitute the weighted average lead content of the product.
The lead content of the material used to produce wetted components
shall be used to determine compliance with paragraph (A)(2). For lead
content of materials that are provided as a range, the maximum content
of the range shall be used.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other
body of surface or groundwater.
NON-RESIDENTIAL CONTRIBUTOR
Any contributor to the City's wastewater facilities whose
lot, parcel of real estate, or building is served by a water meter
larger than three-fourths (3/4) inch.
NORMAL DOMESTIC WASTEWATER
Wastewater that has a BOD concentration of not more than
two hundred forty (240) mg/l and a suspended solids concentration
of not more than two hundred forty (240) mg/l.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE
All expenditures during the useful life of the collection
and treatment facilities for materials, labor, utilities, and other
items which are necessary for managing and maintaining the sewage
works to achieve the capacity and performance for which such works
were designed and constructed.
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.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
The wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing
of foods that have been shredded to such a degree that all particles
will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing
in public sanitary sewers, with no particle greater than one-half
(1/2) inch (1.27 centimeters) in any dimension.
PUBLIC DRINKING WATER SYSTEM
Any publicly or privately owned water system supplying water
to the general public which is satisfactory for drinking, culinary
and domestic purposes and meets the requirements of the Missouri Department
of Natural Resources.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sanitary sewer in which all owners of abutting properties
have equal rights, and is controlled by public authority.
RE-CONNECTION
The commencement of water service to a service address after
service has been discontinued by the City.
REPLACEMENT
Expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories,
or appurtenances which are necessary during the useful life of the
wastewater collection and treatment facilities to maintain the capability
and performance for which such works were designed and constructed.
The term "operation and maintenance" includes replacement.
RESIDENTIAL CONTRIBUTOR
Any contributor to the City's wastewater facilities whose
lot, parcel of real estate, or building is served by a three-fourths
(3/4) inch water meter or less.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface,
and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments, together
with such ground, surface, and stormwaters as may be present.
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 fifteen (15) minutes more than
five (5) times the average twenty-four hour concentration or flows
during normal operation.
SS (DENOTING 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.
STATE DIRECTOR
The State Director of the Farmers Home Administration for
Missouri, United States Department of Agriculture, or his/her their
successor.
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.
TAMPER
To re-arrange, damage, injure, destroy, alter, interfere
with or otherwise prevent from performing normal or customary functions
of water or sanitary sewer service.
USEFUL LIFE
The estimated period during which a collection and treatment
facility will be operated.
USER CHARGE
That portion of the total wastewater service charge which
is levied in a proportional and adequate manner for the cost of operation,
maintenance, and replacement of the collection facilities.
WATER METER
A water volume measuring and recording device, furnished
and/or installed by the City or furnished and installed by the user
and approved by the City.
WATER PURVEYOR
The owner, operator, or individual in responsible charge
of a public water system.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.
The water and sanitary sewer systems of the City and all future
improvements and extensions, whether to the water or to the sewer
system or to both, shall be and the same are combined and shall be
operated and maintained as a combined water and sewer system.