Chapter 7.05
DEFINITIONS
Sections:
7.05.010 Definition of terms.
(1) General. Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this title shall be as set forth in this chapter.
“B.O.D.” (denoting biochemical oxygen demand) shall mean the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20 degrees Celsius, expressed in parts per million by weight.
“Building drain” shall mean 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.
“Building sewer” (or “side sewer”) shall mean the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal, beginning two and one-half feet outside the foundation wall.
“District” shall mean Lake Stevens Sewer District.
“District Clerk” shall mean the Clerk of the Lake Stevens Sewer District. Until such time as a Clerk is employed, the Board of Sewer Commissioners shall designate the person who shall serve as the interim Clerk.
“Duplex” shall mean a two-family dwelling: a building containing not more than two kitchens, designated and/or used to house not more than two families living independently of each other and including all necessary household employees of each such family.
“Garbage” shall mean solid wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage, and sale of produce.
“Industrial wastes” shall mean the liquid wastes from industrial processes.
“Multiple dwelling” shall mean a multiple-family dwelling: a building designed and/or used to house three or more families living independently of each other and including all necessary household employees of each such family; and shall also include trailer parks and trailer courts, and each trailer or stall shall be deemed a separate unit, and shall also include motels, hotels, and condominiums.
“Natural outlet” shall mean any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body of surface or ground water.
“Person” shall mean any individual or firm, company, association, society, corporation, or group.
“pH” shall mean the logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
“Properly shredded garbage” shall mean the garbage which has been shredded to such degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle greater than one-half inch in any dimension.
“Public sewer” shall mean a sewer which is owned or controlled by the District or other public authority.
“Registered side sewer contractor” shall mean any contractor who is duly registered pursuant to the requirements of this title to construct, install, repair, reconstruct, excavate, or connect any building sewer to the public sewers of the District.
“Sanitary sewer” shall mean a sewer which carries sewage and into which storm, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
“Sewage” shall mean a combination of water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions, industrial establishments and other sewer users.
“Sewage treatment plant” shall mean any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating the sewage collected by the District.
“Sewer” shall mean a pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
“Sewer stub” shall mean either a public sewer constructed by the District to the property line of the lot or parcel being served by the public sewer, and to which building sewer may be connected, or a tee or wye on the main or lateral sewer line located to serve a particular lot or parcel of land.
“Shall” is mandatory; “may” is permissive.
“Standard participation contract” shall mean the form of contract required by this title to be entered into before properties which have not been assessed for sewers or otherwise qualify may use the public sewers of the District.
“Structure” shall mean anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires location or attachment to something having location on the ground, including but not limited to trailers and house trailers, but not including fences and walls.
“Superintendent” shall mean the Superintendent of the District. Until such time as a Superintendent is employed, the Board of Sewer Commissioners shall designate the person who shall serve as the interim Superintendent.
“Suspended solids” shall mean 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.
“Watercourse” shall mean a channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently. [Res. 62 §§ 1.01 – 1.27, 1968.]