This chapter may be known and cited as the "Town of Cicero Sewage Disposal and Construction Ordinance" and shall apply to that area of the Town of Cicero outside the Village of North Syracuse.
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of words and terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
ASTM
The latest edition of American Society for Testing and Materials.
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 20º C., expressed in parts per million by weight.
BUILDER
Any person who undertakes to construct any building, either under contract or for resale.
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 lateral, beginning five feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
DEVELOPER
Any person who subdivides land for the purpose of constructing, or causing to be constructed, buildings for which provisions are required to install sewage disposal facilities.
ENFORCEMENT OFFICER
The person appointed by the Town Board as Enforcement Officer, or such other person as may be designated by the Town Board, to perform the duties herein conferred on the Enforcement Officer.
GARBAGE
The solid wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food, and from handling; storage, and sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The liquid wastes from industrial processes as distinct from sewage.
LATERAL, BUILDING
A sewer extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
LATERAL, STREET
The sewer extension from the main sewer to the property line.
OWNER
Any person having title to real property.
pH
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the concentration of hydrogen ions in gramsionic weights per liter of solution.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
The wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food that have been shredded to such degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow condition normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
PROPERTY LINE
The boundary line of a public highway, street, alley or easement.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sanitary sewer within the highway limits, easement limits or other rights-of-way, including street laterals.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions, industrial establishments, 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 used for carrying sewage.
STORM SEWER OR STORM DRAIN
A pipe or conduit used for carrying storm and surface waters and drainages but excludes sewage and industrial wastes.
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.
TOWN ENGINEER
The duly appointed Town Engineer of the Town of Cicero, New York, or a consulting professional engineer retained by the Town of Cicero.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.