Lakewood Municipal Code Part 2 Definitions

Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this Part shall govern the construction of this Chapter.

PART

Shall mean a part of this Chapter unless some other Ordinance or Statute is mentioned.

BUILDING PERMIT

Shall mean the permit issued pursuant to the "Building Code."

CUSTOMER

Shall mean any person, firm, association or governmental agency supplied or entitled to be supplied with water service by a water utility.

DIRECTOR OF PLANNING

Shall mean Director of Community Development of the City of Lakewood, or other officer serving in that capacity.

DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM

Shall mean the network of conduits used for the delivery of water by the utility to the customer's connection.

EASEMENT

Shall mean right-of-way in which the water utility has the right to install and maintain water mains or waterworks, or both.

ELECTRICAL PERMIT

Shall mean the permit issued pursuant to the "Electrical Code."

ENCROACHMENT PERMIT

Shall mean the Utility Encroachment permit issued by the State of California, Department of Public Works, Division of Highways, for permission to excavate, construct, and/or otherwise encroach on a state highway.

EXCAVATION PERMIT

Shall mean the permit issued pursuant to Article VII.

FIRE CHIEF

Shall mean the Fire Chief of the City.

GROUP I OCCUPANCY

Means Group I Occupancy as now or hereafter used in the Building Code, and refers to single and two-family dwellings.

HEALTH OFFICER

Shall mean the Health Officer of this City.

HIGHWAY

Shall mean any public highway, street, road, alley, lane, court or walk or other public easement, and above and below the same, which not exists or which may hereafter exist in any incorporated territory of the City.

MAIN EXTENSIONS

Shall mean the extension of water mains beyond existing facilities, exclusive of service connections.

MAIN LINE VALVE

Shall mean any valve used to control the flow of water in a distribution water main or to a fire hydrant, but does not include the valve to a service connection.

METERED SERVICE CONNECTION

Shall mean the service connection, including meter and meter box.

PERSON

Shall mean any individual, person, firm, partnership or public or private corporation.

PLUMBING PERMIT

Shall mean the permit issued pursuant to the "Plumbing Code."

SUPERINTENDENT OF STREETS

Shall mean Director of Public Works.

SECTION

Shall mean a section of this Part, unless some other ordinance or statute is mentioned.

SERVICE CONNECTION

Shall mean the pipeline or conduit including valves and other equipment installed in place, necessary for conducting water from the utility's water main to the meter or meter location for conducting water from the utility's water main to the meter or meter location installed on or near the property line, but does not include the meter or meter box.

SHALL

Is mandatory.

MAY

Is permissive.

SOURCE

Shall mean all components of the facilities utilized in the production, treatment, storage, and delivery of water to the distribution system.

TRANSMISSION WATER MAINS

Shall mean those lines from source facilities to distribution facility and may be either pressure or gravity mains.

WATER MAINS

Shall mean any pipe or conduit laid along in any highway, easement or within the water utility's property, to be used for the transmission or distribution of water, but does not include service connections or service laterals.

WATER SYSTEM

Shall mean the source facilities transmission pipelines and the distribution system and shall include all those facilities of the water system under the complete control of the utility, up to the customer's connection.

WATER UTILITY

Shall mean any person, firm, private, quasi-public or public agency supplying or purporting to supply other than at wholesale water for any purpose other than irrigation or water replenishment to more than one retail customer or stockholder. The term "water utility" includes a corporation delivering water only to its stockholders, whether such corporation or such stockholders own the water delivered. This Chapter does not apply to the supply of water:

A.

At wholesale or

B.

To water utilities or

C.

For underground water replenishment, or

D.

For underground water conservation.