A.
Title. This chapter shall be known as the "Plumbing
Code" of the City of Franklin and shall be referred to herein as "this
code."
B.
Purpose. The purpose of the Plumbing Code is to safeguard
life, property, health and sanitation by regulating and providing
for the inspection of the installation and use of plumbing and drainage
systems and fixtures in and serving buildings and structures hereafter
erected, constructed, enlarged, altered, repaired, moved or converted
to other uses, and to regulate the use of applicable equipment.
A.
General. For the purpose of this chapter, certain
words or phrases shall have meanings that either vary somewhat from
their customary dictionary meanings or are intended to be interpreted
to have a specific meaning. Words used in the present tense in this
chapter include the future. The word "person" includes a firm, association,
partnership, trust, company or corporation, as well as an individual.
The word "shall" is mandatory; the word "should" is advisory; and
the word "may" is permissive. Any words not defined in this section
shall be presumed to have their customary dictionary definitions.
B.
EFFLUENT
FLOODPLAIN FRINGE
FLOODPLAINS
FLOOD PROFILE
FLOODWAY
HIGH-WATER ELEVATION
HOLDING TANK
NATURAL UNDISTURBED SURFACE
NAVIGABLE STREAMS
NUISANCE
PORTABLE TOILET
PRIVATE SEWAGE SYSTEM
REGIONAL FLOOD
SANITARY PRIVY
SEPTIC TANK
SERVICING
Specific words and phrases. As used in this chapter,
the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
Liquid flowing from any sewage treatment device, such as
a septic tank.
Those floodplains excepting the floodway subject to inundation
by the one-hundred-year recurrence interval flood.
For the purpose of this chapter, the floodplains are all
lands contained in the regional flood or one-hundred-year recurrence
interval flood.
A graph showing the relationship of the floodwater surface
elevation of a flood event of a specified recurrence interval to the
stream bed and other significant natural and man-made features along
a stream.
A designated portion of the one-hundred-year flood that will
safely convey the regulatory flood discharge with small, acceptable
upstream and downstream stage increases, limited in Wisconsin to 0.1
feet unless special legal measures are provided. The floodway, which
includes the channel, is that portion of the floodplain not suited
for human habitation. All fill, structures and other development that
would impair floodwater conveyance by adversely increasing flood stages
or velocities or would itself be subject to flood damage should be
prohibited in the floodway.
The average annual high-water level of a pond, stream, lake,
flowage or wetland referred to an established datum plane or, where
such elevation is not available, the elevation of the line up to which
the presence of the water is so frequent as to leave a distinct mark
by erosion, change in or destruction of vegetation or other easily
recognized topographic, geologic or vegetative characteristics.
Any facility designed to be watertight, which is used for
the storage and decomposition of human excrement, domestic wastes
or liquid industrial wastes.
The state of the soil or a test site without grading or filling
of a site. Stockpiles of topsoil set aside for future use, for example,
are not soils in their natural, undisturbed surface.
Any stream which is capable of floating any boat, skiff or
canoe of the shallowest draft used for recreation purposes.
Any source of filth or cause of sickness within the meaning
of Ch. 146, Wis. Stats.
Fixtures incorporating holding facilities designed to receive
human excrement directly from the user and which are transportable.
A sewage treatment and disposal system serving a single structure
with a septic tank and soil absorption field located on the same parcel
as the structure; an alternative sewage system approved by the Department,
including a substitute for the septic tank or soil absorption field,
a holding tank, a system serving more than one structure or a system
located on a different parcel than the structure; and may be owned
by the property owner or by a special purpose district.
A flood determined to be representative of large floods known
to have generally occurred in Wisconsin and which may be expected
to occur on a particular stream because of like physical characteristics.
The flood frequency of the regional flood is once in every 100 years;
this means that in any given year, there is a one-percent chance that
the regional flood may occur or be exceeded. During a typical thirty-year
mortgage period, the regional flood has a twenty-six-percent chance
of occurrence.
An outhouse or structure used for deposition of human excrement.
A watertight, covered receptacle which receives crude, untreated
sewage and by bacterial action and sedimentation effects a process
of clarification and decomposition of the solid sewage, discharges
and effluent.
The cleaning, removing, hauling and disposing of scum, liquid,
sludge or other wastes.
