For purposes of this chapter the following words and phrases shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this article.
(Prior code § 23C-1-1)
Whenever any words or phrases used herein are not defined, or the context clearly requires a different definition of any words or phrases defined herein, a definition which conforms with the legislative intent of the City Council shall apply.
(Prior code § 23C-1-2)
means biochemical oxygen demand, which is the quantity of oxygen used in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under accepted laboratory procedure in five days at 20 degrees centigrade, expressed in milligrams per liter.
shall mean any structure used for human habitation, a place of business, recreation or other purposes.
shall mean 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 the building and conveys it to the building sewer.
means a sewer conveying materials from the premises of a user to a City sewer.
means the measure of the chemically decomposable material in domestic or industrial waste water as represented by the oxygen used as determined by accepted laboratory procedures.
means the inspector acting for the City as designated by the City Council.
means the Sanitation Officer of the City or, if there is no Sanitation Officer, then the City Manager or his or her duly authorized representative.
means a sewer owned and maintained by the City.
means a sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
includes paper, cardboard, light wood shavings, kindling, leaves and any other item that readily commences to burn upon contact with open flames.
means a utility service account for a commercial or industrial customer engaged in a business for profit excluding therefrom a "home occupation" business, or a nonprofit or religious organization or corporation when a declaration has been filed with the City Clerk showing exemption from utility service charges by virtue of provisions of the United States Constitution, the Constitution of the State of California, or statute of the State of California.
means use of water for irrigating land planted to crops grown for commercial sale or for other than home use.
means regular charges for utility service for commercial accounts.
means any person who owns all or a portion of any building, structure, premises or real property which receives benefit of utility services.
means an agent or employee of the City, or any person or the agents or employees thereof with whom the City shall have duly contracted under the terms of this chapter, to collect, transport through the streets, alleys or public ways of the City, and dispose of solid waste, recyclable materials, or organic waste produced within the limits of the City.
means any contractor licensed by the State to enter into contracts to perform the work of installing, repairing, replacing or relocating sewers under City jurisdiction, or the owner of private property doing his or her own house sewer work on his or her private property only.
means regular charges for utility service for residential accounts.
means sewage from residences, business, buildings and institutions as distinct from industrial waste.
means the person appointed by the City Council to administer and enforce the rules and regulations of the City.
means a fixed charge for utility service based on the type of use.
means kitchen and table offal, and every accumulation of animal, vegetable, and other matter that attends preparation, consumption, decay or dealing in, or storage of meats, fish, fowl, birds, fruits or vegetables, excluding slop or liquids.
means the liquid waste from industrial manufacturing processes, including the washing, cleaning of drain water from such process, as distinct from domestic sewage.
means an approved water meter installed under the direction of the City Engineer or his or her agent.
means a charge for water based upon water consumption as measured by a water meter.
means any individual, firm, corporation, company, partnership, association, organization or combination of more than one such entities.
means the logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
means any hotel, motel, trailer park, restaurant, market, hospital or any commercial or industrial establishment where there is any accumulation of garbage, wet garbage, or refuse or rubbish.
means a lot, parcel of land, building or establishment.
means material containing chemical elements that spontaneously change their atomic structure by emitting any particles, rays, or energy forms.
means all matter and materials rejected by owners or producers thereof as offensive or useless and which, by their presence or accumulation, may injuriously affect the health, comfort, or safety by increasing disease or hazard by fire, and not otherwise defined herein.
means an account other than a commercial account or an account exempted by virtue of provision of the U.S. Constitution, the Constitution of the State of California, or statute of the State of California, and shall include the account of a customer engaged in a residential home occupation business.
includes and means all combustible and noncombustible waste and refuse matter, excepting garbage ordinarily accumulating in and about residences, flats, buildings, apartment houses, lodging houses, hotels, restaurants, eating houses, stores, shops, offices and other public buildings. It includes, among other things, tree trimmings, cut in lengths not to exceed three feet or two inches in diameter, grass cuttings, dead plants, and weeds, and leaves and includes brick, mortar, and other debris incident to the construction of buildings. "Rubbish" does not include discarded appliances, furniture, or other bulky items which cannot be readily placed within the receptacles provided.
means a sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surfaced and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
means a water service connection from one building or property to another; thereby supplying water without benefit of a direct connection from a City water main.
means a combination of liquid or water carried human waste conducted away from residences, business buildings and institutions, which is known as domestic sewage, together with the liquid or water carried waste resulting from a manufacturing process employed in industrial establishments, including the washing, cleaning or drain water from such process, which is known as industrial waste.
means any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
means a pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
means that system of City sewers designed and connected to carry away and dispose of sewage within the City.
is mandatory. "May" is permissive.
means any industrial user of the City's wastewater disposal system who: (1) has a discharge flow of 25,000 gallons or more per average work day; or (2) has a flow greater than five percent of the flow in the City's wastewater treatment system; or (3) has in his or her wastes toxic pollutants as defined pursuant to Section 307 of the Act of (State) Statutes and rules; or (4) is found by the City, (State Control Agency) or the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to have significant impact, either singly or in combination with other contributing industries, on the wastewater treatment system, the quality of sludge, the system's effluent quality, or air emissions generated by the system.
means a classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification Manual issued by the Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget, 1972.
means any public highway, road, street, avenue, alley, way, public place, public easement or right-of-way.
means a sewer or ditch which carries storm and/or surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial waste, other than unpolluted cooling water.
means solids that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension in water, sewage, or other liquids and which are removable by a laboratory filtering.
shall refer to the supervisor of the Water and Sewer Division of the Department of Public Works.
means the same as sewage.
means all clean garbage suitable for food for hogs, coming from restaurants, cafes, cafeterias, hospitals, hotels, boarding houses, clubs and all other eating places in the City, and from butcher shops and dealers in fresh vegetables, and consists of and includes only kitchen and table refuse, offal, and swill, and every accumulation of animal and vegetable scraps, refuse or waste, and other matter that attends the preparation, consumption, decay, or dealing in, or storage of, meats, fish, fowl, birds, fruits or vegetables; provided, however, that this definition is not intended to nor does it include the by-products of butcher shops where such by-products have a commercial value and are not decomposed nor offensive, and where such by-products have not been rejected by the owners or producers thereof as offensive or useless.
means grass cuttings, weeds, leaves, trees, trimmings, and other plant life ordinarily found in landscaped areas.
(Prior code §§ 23C-1-3—23C-1-50; Ord. 1677 § 1, 2021)