ARTICLE I, Definitions and Word Usage

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ARTICLE I, Definitions and Word Usage

§ 183-1. Definitions.

Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meanings of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:

ASTM -- The 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 (5) days at twenty degrees Celsius (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 (5) 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.

GARBAGE -- Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.

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.

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 one-half (1/2) inch in dimension.

PUBLIC SEWER -- A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights and which is controlled by public authority.

SANITARY SEWER -- A sewer which carries sewage and industrial wastes and to which storm- , surface and ground- waters are not intentionally admitted.

SEWAGE -- A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, industrial establishments and institutions, 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 and industrial wastes.

SEWAGE WORKS -- All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage and industrial wastes.

SEWER INSPECTOR -- The Sewer Inspector of the Village of Ilion or his authorized deputy, agent or representative.

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 fifteen (15) minutes, more than five (5) times the average twenty-four-hour concentration of flows during normal operation.

STORM SEWER -- A sewer which carries storm- and surface waters 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.

VILLAGE -- The Village of Ilion in the County of Herkimer and State of New York.

WATERCOURSE -- A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.

WPCF -- The Water Pollution Control Federation.

§ 183-2. Word usage.

A. "Person" shall mean any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.

B. "Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.