As used in this Chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
BOARD OF HEALTH
Shall mean the Monroe County Board of Health or its authorized representative(s). Authorized representative(s) shall be the employees of the Monroe County Health Department.
DISEASED ANIMAL
Shall mean an animal showing symptoms of a disease or having an illness or being in an unhealthy state. This shall include a vicious animal.
DOMESTIC SEWAGE
Shall mean wastewater derived principally from dwellings, business or office buildings, institutions, food service establishments, and similar facilities.
EXTERMINATION
Shall mean the control and elimination of insects, rodents, or other pests by eliminating their harborage places; by removing or making inaccessible materials that may serve as their food; by poisoning, spraying, trapping, or by any other recognized and legal method of pest elimination approved by the Health Officer.
GARBAGE
Shall mean organic waste resulting from the preparation, processing, handling, and storage of food and all decayed or spoiled food from any source whatsoever.
HEALTH DEPARTMENT
Shall mean the Monroe County Health Department, an agency of the Monroe County Board of Health.
HEALTH OFFICER
Shall mean the Administrator of the Monroe County Health Department or his authorized representatives.
HOMEOWNER INSTALLED SYSTEM
Shall mean a private sewage disposal system installed by a homeowner for his personal single-family residence.
HUMAN WASTES
Shall mean undigested food and by-products of metabolism which are passed out of the human body.
INFESTATION
Shall mean the presence, within a dwelling of any insects, rodents, or other pests.
JUNK VEHICLE
Shall include any old, stripped, junked, and/or wrecked motor vehicle not in good and safe operating condition.
MANURE
Shall mean the excrement of all domestic animals and fowl, and stable bedding.
PERMIT
Shall mean a written authorization issued by the Board of Health or its authorized representative.
PERSON
Shall mean any individual, group of individuals, association, trust, partnership, corporation, or person doing business under an assumed name in the State of Illinois or any Department thereof, or any other entity.
PRIVATE SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM CONTRACTOR
Shall mean any person engaged in the business of constructing, installing, maintaining, servicing, or cleaning of private sewage disposal systems or the hauling or disposal of waste removed therefrom. This definition shall include any person who repairs or constructs a segment of a private sewage disposal system.
PRIVATE SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM CONTRACTOR’S REGISTRATION
Shall mean an annual Registration Certificate issued by the Monroe County Health Department to all private sewage disposal contractors engaged in the installation and/or servicing of private sewage disposal systems within the limits of Monroe County.
PRIVATE SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEMS
Shall mean any sewage handling or treatment facility receiving domestic sewage from less than fifteen (15) people, or population equivalent, and having a ground surface discharge or any sewage handling or treatment facility receiving domestic sewage and having no ground surface discharge.
PROPERTY OWNER
Shall mean the person in whose name legal title to the real estate is recorded.
REFUSE
Shall mean garbage, rubbish, ashes, sweepings, manure, dead animals, privy or cesspool contents, or litter.
RODENTS
Shall mean rats and mice.
RUBBISH
Shall mean combustible and noncombustible waste materials, except garbage. This term shall include such items as paper, broken boxes, twigs, dry grass, cans, broken crockery, broken glass, plastic, etc.
SEWAGE
Shall mean human or animal wastes and other liquid wastes from residences, business buildings, industrial establishments or other places, together with such ground water infiltration and surface water as may be present.
VERMIN
Shall mean roaches, bed bugs, fleas, lice or similar pest-like insects.