§ 98-91. Definitions.

As used in this article, the following terms shall have the respective meanings ascribed to them:

Commercial business: Small factory, washateria, hotel, motel, large apartment house, trailer camp, service station, small industrial building, and any other business that uses more than the average residential home water consumption. (Such waste shall receive pretreatment if deemed necessary by the superintendent of the city water and sewer department before discharging into the city sanitary or storm sewer system.)

Domestic service connection: Service to any dwelling unit occupied as living quarters for one or more persons, which establishment or unit has sanitary water or sewer facilities.

Fixture connection: Either a kitchen sink, bathtub or shower, commode, washing machine, floor drain, dishwashing vats and any other plumbing fixture from which wastewater or sewage passes through and into the house drain and into the house sewer, not including wash racks in garages and filling stations, provided that when three or less dishwashing vats are connected as one unit, with one drain, same shall be considered as one fixture connection.

House drain: That part of the main horizontal drain and its branches inside of the wall of the building and extending to and connecting with the house sewer.

House sewer: That part of the main drain or sewer extending from a point four feet outside of the outer space of the outer wall or floor line to a connection with the public sewer.

Industrial waste: Waste from meat-packing plants, lead reclaiming plants, laundries, soap factories, automobile battery plants, or from any other business or any other industrial establishment not hereby listed, producing in such quantities as will injuriously effect the treatment of sewage at the city sewage plant. (Receiving sanitary or storm sewer or whichever may produce conditions dangerous or prejudicial to life or health, such waste shall receive pretreatment if deemed necessary by the director of the city water and sewer department before discharging into the city sanitary or storm sewer system.)

Sanitary sewage: The waste from water closets, lavatories, sinks, bathtubs, urinals, household laundries, cellar floor drains, garage floor drains, storerooms, soda fountains, cuspidors, refrigerator drips, drinking fountains, stable floors, drains and other fixture connections and industrial waste.

Semicommercial: Small business establishment using a water consumption equal to the average residential water consumption, such as barbershops, beauty salons, restaurants, cafes, churches, theaters, garages, and other small businesses of this sort. (Such waste shall receive pretreatment if deemed necessary by the superintendent of the city water and sewer department before discharging into the city sanitary or storm sewer system.)

(Ord. No. 250, § 1, 8-27-59; Code 1973, § 21-50)

Cross reference

Definitions generally, § 1-3.