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-r n En Ord - No 717 �t�", •s ,sem t, � . AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE USE OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SEWERS AND DRAINS, PRIVATE SEWAGE DISPOSAL, THE INSTALLATION AND CONNECTION OF BUILDING SEWERS, AND THE DISCHARGE OF WATERS AND WASTES INTO THE PUBLIC SEWER SYSTEMS: AND PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS THEREOF: IN THE CITY OF � si' , COUNTY OF - /1 - ;,, STATE OF eZZZL&-' BE it ordained and enacted by the Council of the City of -," //Z State of as follows: ARTICLE I Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of the terms used in this ordinance shall be as follows: Sec. 1. "BOD" (denoting Biochemical Oxygen Demand) shall mean the quantit3 of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five (5) days at 200 C, expressed in milligrams per liter. Sec. 2. "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, beginning five (5) feet (1.5meters) outside the inner face of the building wall. Sec. 3. "Building Sewer" shall mean the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal. Sec. 4. "Combined Sewer" shall mean receiving both surface run off and sewage. Sec. 5. "Garbage" shall mean solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage, and sale of produce. Sec. 6. "Industrial Wastes" shall mean the liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes, trade, or business as distinct from sanitary sewage. Sec. 7. "Natural Outlet" shall mean any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body of surface or ground water. , Sec. 8. "Person" shall mean any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group. Sec. 9. "PH" shall mean the logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution. Sec. 10. "Properly Shredded Garbage" shall mean 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 (2) inch (1.27 centimeters) in any dimension. Sec. 11. "Public Sewer" shall mean a sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights, and is controlled by public authority. Sec. 12. "Sanitary Sewer" shall mean a sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface, and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted. Sec. 13. "Sewage" shall mean a combination of the water -carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions, and industrial es- tablishr4onts, together with such ground, surface, and stormwaters as may be present. - more -