Chapter 13.10
DEFINITION OF TERMS
Sections:
13.10.010 Definitions.
General. Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this title shall be as set forth in this chapter.
(1) “Applicant” is any individual person, property owner, builder, or developer who is proposing a main extension and will be responsible for its financing.
(2) “Appurtenances” are the real and personal property owned by the Utility Department or the Tulalip Tribes located on, near or under the roadways and streets, including but not limited to fire hydrants, street lamps, street signs, valves, manholes, covers and drains.
(3) “Department” shall mean the Tulalip Utility Department.
(4) “Board” shall mean the Board of Directors of the Tulalip Tribes.
(5) “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.
(6) “Building sewer collection lines” shall mean that part of the lowest horizontal piping of a sanitary sewer piping system which receives the discharge from soils and waste pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building side sewer.
(7) Sewer Service Lateral. “Building side sewer” shall mean the extension from the building sewer collection lines to the public sanitary sewer or other place of disposal, beginning two and one-half feet outside the foundation wall.
(8) Water Service Line. “Building water” shall mean the extension from the building to the public water main beginning two and one-half feet outside the foundation wall.
(9) “Customer” means any individual person, business, agency or other organization that purchases or is legally responsible for the purchase or payment for water and/or sewer services at one or more locations under one or more rate classifications.
(10) “District” shall mean Tulalip Utility District No. 1 or any other water or sewer district under the jurisdiction of the Tulalip Utility Department.
(11) “Duplex” shall mean a two-family dwelling, namely a building designed and/or used to house not more than two families living independently of each other.
(12) “Engineer” shall mean the person or firm designated by the Board to perform engineering services for the Department or his/her authorized assistants, representatives or employees.
(13) “Equivalent residential unit” (or “ERU”) shall be the estimated average monthly consumption usage of the average single-family residence connected to the water or sewer system and the water or sewer usage of other classes of system users shall be based on the number of these equivalent residential consumption units it would take to approximate their usage of the system.
(14) Garbage. See “Properly shredded garbage.”
(15) “Ground water” shall mean water which lies underground within the porous rock strata or soil.
(16) “Industrial waste” shall mean the liquid and solid wastes from industrial processes.
(17) “Licensed side sewer contractor” shall mean any contractor who is duly licensed under this title to construct, install, repair, reconstruct, excavate or connect any building sewer to the public sewers of the Department.
(18) “Manager” shall mean the Manager of the Tulalip Utility Department hired through the Tulalip Tribes Employment Department to manage the operation of the Utility Department.
(19) “Multiple dwelling” shall mean a multiple-family dwelling, namely 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 be deemed a separate unit.
(20) “Natural outlet” shall mean any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
(21) “Operator” and/or “technician” shall mean an individual hired through Tulalip Employment Department to provide day-to-day preventative maintenance and operational service for the Utility.
(22) “Owner” shall mean the legal owner of deeded property or the tenant or lessee on Tribal or allotted lands.
(23) “Person” shall mean any individual or firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.
(24) “pH” shall mean the logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
(25) “Properly shredded garbage” shall mean the solid wastes, from cooking and dispensing of food, and from handling, storage and sale of produce, which have 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-twelfth inch in any dimension.
(26) “Public sewer” shall mean a pipe or conduit or any other portion of the sanitary sewer system owned or controlled by the Utility Department and used to collect and transport sanitary sewage.
(27) “Private sewage disposal system” shall mean any privately owned and maintained system which holds, treats, and disposes of sewage within the boundary of a lot or parcel. Such systems include but are not limited to septic tanks (which are permitted) and privies and cesspools (which are not permitted).
(28) “Sanitary sewer” shall mean a pipe or conduit which carries sewage and into which storm, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
(29) “Sewage” shall mean a combination of untreated water-carried sanitary sewage wastes from dwellings, business buildings, institutions, industrial establishments and other sewer users.
(30) “Sewage disposal system service” shall mean any individual, firm, contractor or organization whom the Utility Department contracts with to pump out on-site sewage treatment and disposal systems and dispose of the waste material or to repair the on-site sewage treatment and disposal systems located on the Tulalip Indian Reservation.
(31) “Sewage treatment plant” shall mean any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating and disposing of sanitary sewage.
(32) “Sewage works” shall mean all facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sanitary sewage.
(33) “Sewage sludge” shall mean the largely solid matter that is left when separated from water in the treatment of sewage wastes by sewage treatment plants and private sewage disposal systems.
(34) “Sewer” shall mean a pipe or conduit for carrying sanitary sewage.
(35) “Sewer stub” shall mean a public sewer constructed by the Utility Department, or with its permission, to the property line of the lot or parcel being served by the public sanitary sewer and to which the building side sewer may be connected.
(36) “Single-family dwelling” shall mean any structure, including a trailer or mobile home, designed for occupancy by a single family.
(37) “Standard participation contract” shall mean the form of contract required by this title to be entered into before a property may connect to use any public water or sewer line of the Department.
(38) “Storm sewer” shall mean a pipe or conduit for carrying storm, surface and ground water not permitted within the sanitary sewers.
(39) “Structure” shall mean anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires attachment to something having location on the ground, including but not limited to trailers and house trailers, but not including fences and walls.
(40) “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.
(41) “Utilities” shall mean community water and sewer facilities.
(42) “Utility” or “Utility Department” shall mean the Tulalip Utility Department.
(43) “Water,” unless otherwise defined in an individual section of this title, shall mean potable water, water fit to drink, and water which has been treated and transmitted for water service by the Utility.
(44) “Watercourse” shall mean a channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
(45) “Shall” is mandatory; “may” is permissive.
(46) “His” shall also include “her.”
(47) Technician. See “Operator.” [Res. 2016-164; Ord. 76 Art. 2, 12-6-2004 (Res. 2004-467)].