As used in this chapter, the following terms shall
have the meanings indicated:
ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
The individual designated as the agent and representative
of the Township of Oxford charged with the operation of the Oxford
Township Sewer Utility system.
AGENT
The designated representative of the owner of the property
or, in the absence of instructions from the owner or his duly authorized
agent to the contrary, the occupant of any property or premises.
BUILDING SEWER
A sewer pipe, including fittings, which carries wastewater
from a building of any kind to the sewer stub connection.
COMMERCIAL CONCERN
Any concern engaged in service, trade, traffic or commerce
in general, including concerns which provide recreational and municipal
services (industrial concerns are excluded).
INDUSTRIAL CONCERN
Any concern engaged primarily in a manufacturing or processing
operation or in research and development activities.
INSTITUTION
Any charitable, hospital, relief, training, correctional,
reformatory or public institution.
OWNER
Any person or persons actually owning any property or premises,
or that person's duly authorized agent.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
SANITARY SEWER
Any appurtenance which carries or is intended to carry wastewater
and into which stormwater, surface water and groundwater is not intentionally
admitted.
SEWER SYSTEM
All pipes, conduits, manholes, siphons, pumping and ejecting
facilities, force mains, treatment plants and other appurtenances
installed on public roads or other public property, rights-of-way,
easements or private property by consent of the owner, within the
boundaries of the Township of Oxford, owned and maintained by the
Township of Oxford, or its authorized agents, for the express purpose
of collecting wastewater. It also includes any such system installed
by any private person or public agency within the boundaries of the
Township of Oxford where the provisions of this chapter are applicable
by reason of valid consent of the owner or operator of said system,
or any such system installed or maintained beyond the boundaries of
the Township of Oxford where the provisions of this chapter are applicable
by reason of the valid consent of the owner or operator of said system,
or any such system installed or maintained beyond the boundaries of
the Township of Oxford where the provisions of this chapter are applicable
by reason of the valid consent of the municipality in which said system
is situated.
STREET
Any and all streets, avenues, highways and roads, whether
or not publicly used, dedicated or accepted by the Municipality.
UNIT
Shall be considered as a single-family dwelling, each apartment,
each motel room, each hotel room, each store, home unit, lodging home
or other lodging units, mobile home and industrial building.
USER
Any person that discharges or causes or permits the discharge
of wastewater into the public sewers.
WASTE
Sewerage and any and all other waste substances, liquid,
solid, gaseous or radioactive, associated with human habitation or
of human or animal origin or from any producing, manufacturing or
processing operation of whatever nature, including such waste placed
within containers of whatever nature prior to and for purposes of
disposal.
WASTEWATER
A combination of water-carried wastes from residences, commercial
concerns, institutions, industrial concerns and other buildings or
places.
WCPRMUA
The Warren County-Pequest River Municipal Utilities Authority,
the regional sewer system to which the Township of Oxford sewer system
shall discharge.