A. 
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
BOD (denoting "biochemical oxygen demand")
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20° C. expressed in milligrams per liter.
BUILDING DRAIN
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning five feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
CODE ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL
The official described in § 53-57 et seq. and authorized to enforce this chapter.
[Added 9-13-2012]
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
HEALTH OFFICER
The Health Officer or the person duly licensed by the State of New Jersey and performing the duties of Health Officer appointed by the Board of Health of the Borough of Allendale.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes, trade or business as distinct from sanitary sewage.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.
pH
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.[1]
PLUMBING SUBCODE OFFICIAL
The Plumbing Subcode Official duly appointed by the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Allendale.
[Added 9-13-2012]
PRIVATE SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM
Those septic tanks, cesspools, sewage disposal devices of subsurface drainage systems in connection with the foregoing serving or designed to serve residential, business or commercial structures and any establishment producing industrial wastes
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food that have been shredded to such a degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sewer which is owned and controlled by municipal or public authority.
SANITARY SEWAGE
The liquid and intermixed solid wastes from homes or other structures, exclusive of industrial wastes or storm and surface waters and drainage.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carries sanitary sewage and to which storm, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE
A combination of sanitary sewage and industrial waste together with such ground, surface and storm waters as may be present.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
SEWAGE WORKS
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SLUG
Any discharge of water, sewage or industrial waste which, in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow, exceeds, for any period of duration longer than 15 minutes, more than five times the average twenty-four-hour concentration or flow during normal operation.
STORM DRAIN (sometimes termed "storm sewer")
A sewer which carries storm- and surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling waters.
SUMP PUMP
A pump used to remove water that has accumulated in a water collector sump basin commonly found in the basement of homes.
[Added 9-13-2012[2]]
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension in water, sewage or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory filtering.
WATER AND SEWER UTILITY SUPERINTENDENT
An individual duly appointed by the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Allendale with the responsibilities set forth in Article IA.
[Added 9-13-2012]
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
[1]
Editor's Note: The former definition of "Plumbing Inspector," which immediately followed this definition, was repealed 9-13-2012.
[2]
Editor's Note: This ordinance also repealed the former definition of "superintendent," amended 9-25-1986.
B. 
The term "shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.