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Title. This chapter shall be known as the "Plumbing Code" of the City of Franklin and shall be referred to herein as "this code."
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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.
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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.
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Specific words and phrases. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
EFFLUENT
Liquid flowing from any sewage treatment device, such as a septic tank.
FLOODPLAIN FRINGE
Those floodplains excepting the floodway subject to inundation by the one-hundred-year recurrence interval flood.
FLOODPLAINS
For the purpose of this chapter, the floodplains are all lands contained in the regional flood or one-hundred-year recurrence interval flood.
FLOOD PROFILE
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.
FLOODWAY
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.
HIGH-WATER ELEVATION
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.
HOLDING TANK
Any facility designed to be watertight, which is used for the storage and decomposition of human excrement, domestic wastes or liquid industrial wastes.
NATURAL UNDISTURBED SURFACE
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.
NAVIGABLE STREAMS
Any stream which is capable of floating any boat, skiff or canoe of the shallowest draft used for recreation purposes.
NUISANCE
Any source of filth or cause of sickness within the meaning of Ch. 146, Wis. Stats.
PORTABLE TOILET
Fixtures incorporating holding facilities designed to receive human excrement directly from the user and which are transportable.
PRIVATE SEWAGE SYSTEM
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.
REGIONAL FLOOD
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.
SANITARY PRIVY
An outhouse or structure used for deposition of human excrement.
SEPTIC TANK
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.
SERVICING
The cleaning, removing, hauling and disposing of scum, liquid, sludge or other wastes.