Brisbane Municipal Code Art. I Definitions

The definitions set forth in this article shall be applied throughout this chapter, unless the context or the provisions clearly requires otherwise.

(Ord. No. 591, § 1, 3-19-15)

"BOD," denoting biochemical oxygen demand, means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five (5) days at twenty degrees (20°) Centigrade, and shall be expressed in parts per million by weight.

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"Capacity charge" means a charge for facilities in existence at the time the charge is imposed or charges for new facilities to be constructed in the future that are of benefit to the person or property being charged.

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"City" means the city of Brisbane.

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"Department of public health" means the environmental health services division of the county of San Mateo Health System. May also be referred to individually as health officer.

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"Director" means the director of public works/city engineer of the city, or his authorized deputy, agent, or representative.

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"Equivalent residential unit" or "ERU" means the estimate of average gallons of sewage flow per day per single-family unit. For the purpose of this chapter, such average is established at one hundred five (105). Where a charge imposed by this chapter is required to be calculated according to the number of ERUs, such determination shall be based upon an engineering estimate prepared or approved by the director, and for this purpose the director may utilize as a guideline the tables published from time to time by the State Water Resources Control Board of the California Environmental Protection Agency.

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"Family" means any number of persons living together as a family unit.

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"Garbage" means and includes all animal and vegetable wastes from kitchens; all household wastes that have been prepared for or intended to be used as food or have resulted from the preparation of food; every accumulation of animal and vegetable waste from the establishments where foodstuffs intended for human consumption are handled commercially; and also bottles, tin cans and any other containers of food.

"Grease" means grease, oil, fat, or other ether-soluble matter, and shall be expressed in parts per million by weight.

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"Dispersed grease" means grease which is not floatable grease.

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"Floatable grease" means grease which floats to the surface of quiescent sewage, water, or other liquid, or which floats upon dilution of the liquid with water.

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"Natural outlet" means any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, bay, ocean, or other body of surface water, or outlet into the groundwater.

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"Person" means any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation, or group.

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"pH" means the logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.

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"Residential premises" means premises used as a family residence.

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"Sewage" means water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments, together with such ground-waters, surface waters, and stormwaters as may be present, or any combination of such wastes and waters, and shall include:

A. "Industrial wastes," which means the wastes from producing, manufacturing, and processing operations of every kind or nature;

B. "Stormwater," which means the flow in sewers resulting from rainfall;

C. "Sanitary sewage," which means that portion of sewage exclusive of industrial wastes and stormwater.

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"Sewage treatment plant" means any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.

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"Sewage works" means all sewers and facilities which are used by the city for carrying, collecting, pumping, treating, and disposing of sewage. Also includes the sewers and facilities of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission of the City and County of San Francisco.

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"Sewer" means a pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.

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"Building sewer" means the sewer connecting the house or structure on the property to the public sewer. See also sewer lateral.

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"Sewer connection fee" means the fee charged for the cost of physical facilities necessary to install a building sewer, including, but not limited to, meters, meter boxes, and pipelines from the structure or project to the public sewer main.

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"Sewer lateral" means the sanitary sewer line, including cleanouts, overflow valves, control manholes, backflow valves, wye saddles and all other fittings that connect the building sewer to the public sewer. The portion of the sewer lateral located on private property (other than the lateral within a public easement located on the private property) may be referred to as the "upper" lateral, and the portion of the sewer lateral located within the public right-of-way or public easement (including the lateral within a public easement on private property) may be referred to as the "lower" lateral. The sewer lateral may also be referred to as the building sewer.

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"Sewer lateral certificate" means a document issued by the director pursuant to requirements specified in Section 13.04.452.

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"Public sewer" means a sewer which is controlled by the city, and located in any street, highway, alley, place, right-of-way or easement dedicated for public use and accepted by the city. Public sewer does not include sewer laterals.

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"Sanitary sewer" means a sewer to which stormwaters, surface waters, and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.

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"Storm sewer" or "storm drain" means a sewer which carries stormwaters and surface waters, but from which sewage and polluted industrial wastes are excluded.

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

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"Suspended solids" means 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, and shall be expressed in parts per million by weight.

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"Watercourse" means a channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.

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