This Part 1 shall be known as the "Public Sewer Use Ordinance of the Town of Clay." This Part 1 shall apply to all sewer and sewage disposal districts of the Town of Clay now or hereafter established and to all customers thereof and to all property therein and to all private sewers and drains and private sewage disposal.
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Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this Part 1 shall be as follows:
ASTM
The latest edition of American Society for Testing 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 20° Centigrade expressed in parts per million by weight.
BOUNDARY LINES
The lines established by the description of any property described by metes and bounds or the lot lines of any property described by reference to a filed map, except that where any such boundary line is within the public highway or right-of-way in which a public sewer is located, the term shall be deemed to mean the edge of such public highway or right-of-way.
BUILDER
Any person, persons, or corporation who undertakes to construct, either under contract or for resale within two years, any habitable building.
BUILDING DRAIN
The 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.
COMBINED SEWER
A sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
CONTRACTOR
Any person, firm or corporation appearing on the approved list of certified plumbers as periodically published by the Health Department.
DEVELOPER
Any person or corporation who undertakes to construct simultaneously more than one housing unit on a given tract or land subdivision.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
HEALTH DEPARTMENT
Onondaga County Health Department, Bureau of Sanitary Engineering Services.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes, trade or business as distinct from sanitary sewage.
INSPECTOR
With respect to public sewers, the person employed by the Onondaga County Health Department, Bureau of Sanitary Engineering Services, to inspect sewers; and with respect to individual sewage disposal systems located or constructed pursuant to Chapter 182, Sewage Disposal Systems, Individual, of this Municipal Code, the person employed by the town to inspect such individual sewage disposal systems.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
OWNER
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, person or group having title to real property.
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.
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 in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights, and is owned or controlled by public authority.
SANITARY SEWAGE
The liquid wastes discharging from the sanitary conveniences of dwellings (including apartment houses and hotels), office buildings, factories or institutions.
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, and industrial establishments.
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 of flows during normal operation.
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN
A sewer which carries storm and surface water and drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling water.
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 engineer or consultant engineer or engineers appointed or employed by the Town Board pursuant to the authority contained in the Town Law of the State of New York, or his or their authorized deputy, agent or representative.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
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"Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.