§ 98-341. Definitions.

When used in this section, these terms shall be defined as follows:

Building permit: A permit required by the city for the construction of any new dwelling or building.

City: City of Haltom City, Texas.

Commercial: Any customer served by a single meter or meters that is engaged in any type of business, except the processing, fabrication, or manufacturing of any goods or products and any type of dwelling unit.

Commercial-multiple unit: Any customer that has a single meter or meters serving more than one business per meter and/or three or more dwelling units per meter.

Director: The director of the water department of the city or his authorized representative.

General benefit facility: Wastewater facilities that provide utility services and benefits common to all customers of the utility; this includes wastewater treatment plants, control systems and appurtenances, and all major collectors and interceptors that are 18 inches and greater in diameter.

Industrial: Any customer served by one or more water meters whose sewage contains wastewater from a product fabricated, processed, or manufactured by the customer.

Industrial-monitored class: Any customer determined by the director to be a producer of any sewage having a suspended solids or BOD content which is significantly in excess of that found in normal sewage, but is otherwise acceptable into the city sanitary sewerage system.

Initial wastewater service: The first wastewater service to be provided at a specific property location.

Living area: The enclosed area of a dwelling that does not include garages, carports, and outside patios or porches.

Meter: A device that measures the quantity of water used. The types of meters used herein are those described in the American Water Works Association C700 through C703 and M6 standards.

Public utility: Any person, firm, corporation, cooperative corporation, or any combination of these persons or entities including a municipal corporation, water supply or sewer service corporation, or other political subdivision of the state, or their lessees, trustees, and receivers, owning or operating for compensation equipment or facilities for the provisions of potable water to the public or for the collection and treatment of sewage for the public, but does not include any person or corporation not otherwise a public utility that furnishes the services only to itself or its employees or tenants as an incident of that employee's service or tenancy when that service is not resold to or used by others.

Residential: Any customer living in a dwelling having the necessary living facilities for one unit that is served by a single water meter. This class also includes a duplex dwelling where no more than two living units are supplied water through a single meter.

(Code 1973, § 21-151; Ord. No. 1360, § 1, 6-22-87)

Cross reference

Definitions generally, § 1-3.