As used in this chapter, the following terms shall
have the following meanings:
ASSESSMENTS
The payment required to be made by the Township of Grosse
Ile to Wayne County for the retirement of the bonds issued pursuant
to Act 40 of the Public Acts of Michigan of 1956, as amended.
AVAILABILITY OF SERVICE CONNECTION CHARGE
The basic connection charge of $390 for the sewer connection
from the bond sewer project or a lateral Township sewer in the public
right-of-way to the building sewer paid by each premises, user or
users of the sewage disposal system plus the additional charges established
by this chapter where special conditions exist.
BOND SEWER PROJECT
The bond sewer project constructed at a cost of $4,650,000
by the County of Wayne, State of Michigan, Grosse Ile Sanitary Interceptor
Drain and Treatment Plant Drainage District Board.
BUILDING PERMIT
That permit required by the Basic Building Code of the Township
for the construction of a complete building or structure and shall
not mean permits for the mechanical, electrical or plumbing trades
or so-called "footing permits."
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the building drain on private property
to the public sewer connection better known as the availability of
service connection or other place of disposal.
CLUB MEMBER
Any individual, person, firm, or corporation who form and
are part of an association of persons for the promotion of some common
object.
CONTRACT
The contractual arrangement heretofore made, and agreed to
between the Grosse Ile Sanitary Interceptor Drain and Treatment Plant
Drainage Board and the Township of Grosse Ile.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
PREMISES
Any property from which emanates that quantity of sewage
ordinarily arising from an occupancy of a residential building by
a single family of ordinary size.
PRIVATE SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM
Any septic tank, cesspool or other facilities intended or
used for the disposal of sanitary sewage, not under Township jurisdiction.
READINESS-TO-SERVE CHARGE
A charge as set in §
209-5 paid by each premises connecting directly to a bond sewer project or each premises connecting directly to any lateral sewer system of the Township.
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SANITARY SEWAGE
The liquid or water-carried waste discharged from the sanitary
conveniences of dwellings (including houses and hotels), office buildings,
factories and any other institution.
SANITARY SEWERS
Those sewers of the sewage disposal system designed for the
purpose of carrying sanitary flow only.
SEWAGE
Any combination of sanitary sewage, stormwater, industrial
wastes and uncontaminated industrial wastes.
SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM
Includes all sanitary sewers, combined sanitary and storm
sewers, plants, works, instrumentalities and properties used or useful
in connection with the collection, treatment and/or disposal of sewage
and/or industrial wastes, now in existence and owned by the Township
of Grosse Ile or hereafter acquired or constructed within the corporate
limits of the Township of Grosse Ile by the Township of Grosse Ile.
SHOPPING CENTER
Includes any lot or parcel of land or contiguous lots or
parcels of land comprising a total of three or more acres upon which
there is located one or more buildings serviced by a central parking
area or areas and where there is more than one building arranged so
that customers can travel from one retail business or building to
another without use of public sidewalks or streets. Gasoline service
stations shall not, in any case, be considered a part of or within
a shopping center but shall be considered as a separate business for
which a separate connection charge shall be required.
STORM SEWERS
Shall be construed and limited to mean only those sewers
carrying only stormwaters.
UNIT
Any property which uses that quantity of water ordinarily
arising from the occupancy of a residence building by a single family
of ordinary size as set forth in the following Schedule of Factors.
USER or USERS
Any premise or premises, building or buildings, connected
either directly or indirectly with and using any of the sewage disposal
system for the disposition and removal of sewage or wastes. For the
purpose of determining sewer connection charges, in the case of shopping
centers and in other instances where more than one building is located
on one parcel of land, each separate building shall be construed as
a separate user notwithstanding the manner of connection to the sewage
disposal system, whether directly to a bond sewer project or by connection
to a private lateral sewer or Township lateral sewer.