The definitions given in this part shall be used in the interpretation
of this ordinance, the issuance of permits, the making of charges
for service and all other operations of this ordinance unless another
meaning for the word is apparent from the context.
means the person or his authorized agent making application
for a permit for a sewer or plumbing installation and shall be the
owner of premises to be served by the sewer for which a permit is
requested.
means the measure of decomposable organic material in domestic
or industrial wastewaters as represented by the oxygen utilized over
a period of five days at twenty degrees Centigrade and as determined
by the appropriate procedure in "Standards Methods."
means any structure used for human habitation, business or
commercial activity, industry, recreation, public use, or other purpose
containing sanitary facilities.
means that portion of any sewer beginning at the plumbing
or drainage outlet of any building and extending to the property line.
means the difference between the amount of chlorine added
to a wastewater sample and the amount remaining at the end of a thirty
minute period as determined by the procedures given in "Standard Methods."
shall mean the city engineer of Crescent City or his duly
authorized deputy or agent.
means the city of Crescent City.
means the governing body of the city.
means the measure of chemically decomposable material in
domestic or industrial wastewater as represented by the oxygen utilized
as determined by the appropriate procedure described in the "Standard
Methods."
means any owner who is not a residential owner, industrial
owner or institutional owner.
means an individual, firm, corporation, partnership or association
duly licensed by the state to perform the type of work to be done
under this permit.
means any person that discharges or causes a discharge to
a public sewer.
means the solid matter in solution in the waste-water and
shall be obtained by evaporation of a sample from which all suspended
matter has been removed by filtration as determined by the procedures
in "Standard Methods."
means the water-carried wastes produced from noncommercial
or nonindustrial activities and which result from normal human living
processes.
means any single family dwelling of one or more rooms having
one or more plumbing fixtures suitable for residential occupancy by
any number of persons living together as a single family, including
single family dwelling units, and each group of rooms constituting
a dwelling unit for a single family in any multiple dwelling structure.
means the liquid outflow of any facility designed to treat,
convey or retain wastewater.
means any one or more persons comprising a single family
unit.
means the industrial wastewater treatment surcharge formula.
means or includes kitchen and table refuse, offal, swill,
and every accumulation of animal, vegetable, and other matter that
attends the preparation, consumption, decay or dealing in the storage
of meats, fish, birds, fruits, or vegetables and all broken or discarded
crockery, bottles and tin vessels. Dead animals, swill, offal and
other salvable waste matter having a value shall not be included within
the meaning of the word garbage.
means any facility designed, constructed and operated for
the purpose of removing and retaining dangerous, deleterious or prohibited
constituents from wastewater by differential gravity separation before
discharge to the public sewer.
means the sewer connecting the building sewer or building
waste drainage system to the public sewer for the purpose of conveying
industrial wastewater.
means any owner on whose premises any manufacturing or processing
activity for profit is engaged in, including the manufacturing or
processing of agricultural products, animals, poultry, goods, wares
or other products or materials.
means all water-carried wastes and wastewater of the community
excluding domestic wastewater and uncontaminated water, and shall
include all wastewater from any producing, manufacturing, processing,
institutional, commercial, agricultural, or other operation where
the wastewater discharged includes significant quantities of wastes
of non-human origin.
shall mean a person authorized by the city engineer to inspect
wastewater generation, conveyance, processing and disposal facilities.
shall mean any owner, public or non-profit school, church,
hospital, lodge, club, fire department, library, memorial building
or other public or non-profit activity.
shall mean the sewer from the main sewer to the property
line.
shall mean the city or other public agency legally authorized
to construct, maintain and operate a system of lateral or collecting
sewers.
means a public sewer designed to accommodate more than one
lateral sewer.
means any two or more dwelling units in any single building
or structure or group of buildings or structures, including any apartment
house or apartment court, excepting any multiple lodging structure.
means any two or more lodging units in any single building
or structure or group of buildings or structures, including any rooming
house, hotel or motel.
means, unless otherwise specified, the sewer use ordinance.
means a sanitary sewer beyond the city limits not subject
to the control or jurisdiction of the city.
means the average rate at which wastewater is discharged
to a public sewer during the highest thirty minute flow period in
the preceding twelve months.
means any written authorization required pursuant to this
or any other regulation of the city for the installation of any sewage
works.
means any individual, partnership, committee, association,
corporation, public agency, and any other organization or group of
persons, public or private.
means the wastewater treatment plant of the city.
means any lot, or any piece or parcel of land comprising
two or more lots of record in one ownership, or any building or other
structure or any part of any building or structure used or useful
for human habitation or gathering or for carrying on a business or
occupation or any commercial or industrial activity.
means the minimum standards for public works construction
in the city and on file in the office of the city engineer.
means a sewer lying within a street and which is under the
jurisdiction of the city or other public agencies.
means material containing chemical elements that spontaneously
change their atomic structure by emitting any particles, rays or energy
forms.
means any owner whose premises are used solely for residential
purposes by any one or more persons.
means a sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface,
and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
means a section of this ordinance.
means water and water-carried wastes, including industrial
sewage and industrial wastes disposed of or disposable through plumbing
outlets and carried through and ultimately disposed of by the municipal
sewage disposal system.
means a pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
means the service and facilities for collection, treatment
and disposal of sewage furnished or available to premises by the sewer
system.
means a network of wastewater collection, conveyance, treatment
and disposal facilities interconnected by sewers, and owned by the
city.
is mandatory and "may" is permissive.
means one dwelling unit in a single structure.
means the nonliquid carried wastes normally considered to
be suitable for disposal with refuse at sanitary landfill refuse disposal
site.
means the current edition of "Standard Methods for the Examination
of Water and Wastewater," as published by the American Public Health
Association.
means a conduit which carries storm and surface or groundwaters
and drainage, but excludes sewage and polluted industrial wastes.
means any public highway, road, street, avenue, alley, way,
easement, or right-of-way in the city.
means the insoluble solid matter suspended in wastewater
that is separated by laboratory filtration in accordance with the
procedure described in "Standard Methods."
include but shall not be limited to any formula, plan, pattern,
process, tool, mechanism, compound, procedure, production data, or
compilation of information which is not patented, which is known only
to certain individuals within a commercial concern who are using it
to fabricate, produce, or compound an article of trade or a service
having a commercial value, and which gives its user an opportunity
to obtain a business advantage over competitors who do not know or
use it.
means a sewer constructed, maintained, and operated by the
city that conveys wastewater to the city's treatment facilities and
into which lateral and collecting sewers discharge.
means any wasted water of the community not contaminated
or polluted with wastewater and which is suitable or could readily
be made suitable for discharge to the municipal storm water drainage
system.
means discharger.
means the water-carried wastes of the community derived from
human or industrial sources including domestic wastewater and industrial
wastewater. Rainwater, groundwater or drainage or uncontaminated water
is not wastewater.
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State law and cross references pertaining to this ordinance:
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For state law as to authority of city to construct, etc., sewers
and drains, see Government Code, Sections 38660, 38900. As to "Sewer
Right-of-Way Law of 1921," see Government Code, Section 39000 et seq.
As to sanitation and sewerage systems generally, see Health and Safety
Code, Section 5470 et seq.
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As to plumbing, see Chapter 15.16 of city code.
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As to street excavations generally, see Chapter 12.08 of city code.
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