Mount Shasta Municipal Code Part V Definitions

The definitions given in this part shall be used in the interpretation of this chapter, the issuance of permits, the making of charges for service and all other operations of this chapter unless another meaning for the word is apparent from the context. (Ord. CCO-99-05, 1999; Ord. 331 Appx. A, 1975)

“Ad valorem tax” means the tax levied for the benefit of an individual district on the assessed value of property within its boundaries. (Ord. CCO-99-05, 1999; Ord. 331 Appx. A § 1, 1975)

“Assessed value” means that portion of the total assessed value of the property upon which individual City taxes are levied. (Ord. CCO-99-05, 1999; Ord. 331 Appx. A § 2, 1975)

“BOD” or “biochemical oxygen demand” means the measure of decomposable organic material in domestic or industrial wastewaters as represented by the oxygen utilized over a period of five days at 20 degrees centigrade and as determined by the appropriate procedure in “Standard Methods.” (Ord. CCO-99-05, 1999; Ord. 331 Appx. A § 3, 1975)

“Chlorine demand” means the difference between the amount of chlorine added to a wastewater sample and the amount remaining at the end of a 30-minute period as determined by the procedures given in “Standard Methods.” (Ord. CCO-99-05, 1999; Ord. 331 Appx. A § 4, 1975)

“COD” or “chemical oxygen demand” means the measure of chemically decomposable material in domestic or industrial wastewater as represented by the oxygen utilized as determined by the appropriate procedure described in “Standard Methods.” (Ord. CCO-99-05, 1999; Ord. 331 Appx. A § 5, 1975)

“City” means the City of Mt. Shasta. (Ord. CCO-99-05, 1999; Ord. 331 Appx. A § 6, 1975)

“Director of Public Works” means the Director of Public Works of the City of Mt. Shasta. (Ord. CCO-99-05, 1999; Ord. 331 Appx. A § 7, 1975)

“Discharger” means any person that discharges or causes a discharge to a public sewer. (Ord. CCO-99-05, 1999; Ord. 331 Appx. A § 8, 1975)

“Dissolved solids” or “dissolved matter” means the solid matter in solution in the wastewater and shall be obtained by evaporation of a sample from which all suspended matter has been removed by filtration as determined by the procedures in “Standard Methods.” (Ord. CCO-11-05 § 39, 2011; Ord. CCO-99-05, 1999; Ord. 331 Appx. A § 9, 1975)

“Domestic wastewater” means the water-carried wastes produced from noncommercial or nonindustrial activities and which result from normal human living processes. (Ord. CCO-99-05, 1999; Ord. 331 Appx. A § 10, 1975)

“Effluent” means the liquid outflow of any facility designed to treat, convey or retain wastewater. (Ord. CCO-99-05, 1999; Ord. 331 Appx. A § 11, 1975)

“Formula” means the industrial wastewater treatment surcharge formula as set forth in MSMC 13.56.350. (Ord. CCO-99-05, 1999; Ord. 331 Appx. A § 12, 1975)

“House connection” means the sewer connecting the building sewer or building waste drainage system to the public sewer for the purpose of conveying domestic wastewater. (Ord. CCO-99-05, 1999; Ord. 331 Appx. A § 13, 1975)

“Industrial connection sewer” means the sewer connecting the building sewer or building waste drainage system to the public sewer for the purpose of conveying industrial wastewater. (Ord. CCO-99-05, 1999; Ord. 331 Appx. A § 14, 1975)

“Industrial wastewater” means all water-carried wastes and wastewater of the community, excluding domestic wastewater and uncontaminated water, and includes all wastewater from any producing, manufacturing, processing, institutional, commercial, agricultural, or other operation where the wastewater discharged includes significant quantities of wastes of nonhuman origin. (Ord. CCO-99-05, 1999; Ord. 331 Appx. A § 15, 1975)

“Inspector” means a person authorized by the Director of Public Works to inspect wastewater generation, conveyance, processing and disposal facilities. (Ord. CCO-99-05, 1999; Ord. 331 Appx. A § 16, 1975)

“Gravity separation interceptor” means any facility designed, constructed and operated for the purpose of removing and retaining dangerous, deleterious or prohibited constituents from wastewater by differential gravity separation before discharge to the public sewer. (Ord. CCO-99-05, 1999; Ord. 331 Appx. A § 17, 1975)

“Lateral sewer,” “collecting sewer,” or “main line sewer” means the public sewer usually eight inches or larger in diameter and used to collect wastewater from house connection and industrial connection sewers and transport it to trunk sewers. Lateral, collecting or main line sewers are normally built and maintained by the City. (Ord. CCO-99-05, 1999; Ord. 331 Appx. A § 18, 1975)

“Ordinance” means, unless otherwise specified, the ordinance codified in this chapter. (Ord. CCO-99-05, 1999; Ord. 331 Appx. A § 19, 1975)

“Peak flow rate” means the average rate at which wastewater is discharged to a public sewer during the highest 30-minute flow period in the preceding 12 months. (Ord. CCO-99-05, 1999; Ord. 331 Appx. A § 20, 1975)

“Person” means any individual, partnership, committee, association, corporation, public agency, and any other organization or group of persons, public or private. (Ord. CCO-99-05, 1999; Ord. 331 Appx. A § 21, 1975)

“Public corporation” means this State and any political subdivision thereof, any incorporated municipality therein, any public agency of the State or any political subdivision thereof, or any corporate municipal instrumentality of this State. (Ord. CCO-99-05, 1999; Ord. 331 Appx. A § 22, 1975)

“Public sewer” means any sewer dedicated to public use and whose use is controlled by a public corporation. (Ord. CCO-99-05, 1999; Ord. 331 Appx. A § 23, 1975)

“Radioactive material” means material containing chemical elements that spontaneously change their atomic structure by emitting any particles, rays or energy forms. (Ord. CCO-99-05, 1999; Ord. 331 Appx. A § 24, 1975)

“Section” means a section of this chapter. (Ord. CCO-99-05, 1999; Ord. 331 Appx. A § 25, 1975)

“Sewage” means wastewater. (Ord. CCO-99-05, 1999; Ord. 331 Appx. A § 26, 1975)

“Sewage pumping plant” means any facility designed and constructed to raise wastewater in elevation or to overcome head losses due to pipeline friction. (Ord. CCO-99-05, 1999; Ord. 331 Appx. A § 27, 1975)

“Sewerage” means any and all facilities used for collecting, conveying, pumping, treating and disposing of wastewater. (Ord. CCO-99-05, 1999; Ord. 331 Appx. A § 28, 1975)

“Shall” is mandatory and “may” is permissive. (Ord. CCO-99-05, 1999; Ord. 331 Appx. A § 29, 1975)

“Solid wastes” means the nonliquid carried wastes normally considered to be suitable for disposal with refuse at sanitary landfill refuse disposal sites. (Ord. CCO-99-05, 1999; Ord. 331 Appx. A § 30, 1975)

“Standard Methods” means the current edition of “Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater” as published by the American Public Health Association. (Ord. CCO-99-05, 1999; Ord. 331 Appx. A § 31, 1975)

“Suspended solids” or “suspended matter” means the insoluble matter suspended in wastewater that is separable by laboratory filtration in accordance with the procedure described in “Standard Methods.” (Ord. CCO-99-05, 1999; Ord. 331 Appx. A § 32, 1975)

“Trade secrets” shall include but is not limited to any formula, plan, pattern, process, tool, mechanism, compound, procedure, production data, or compilation of information which is not patented, which is known only to certain individuals within a commercial concern who are using it to fabricate, produce, or compound an article of trade or a service having commercial value, and which gives its user an opportunity to obtain a business advantage over competitors who do not know or use it. (Ord. CCO-99-05, 1999; Ord. 331 Appx. A § 33, 1975)

“Trunk sewer” means a sewer constructed, maintained and operated by the City that conveys wastewater to the City’s treatment facilities and into which lateral and collecting sewers discharge. (Ord. CCO-99-05, 1999; Ord. 331 Appx. A § 34, 1975)

“Uncontaminated water” means any wasted water of the community not contaminated or polluted with wastewater and which is suitable or could readily be made suitable for discharge to the municipal stormwater drainage system. (Ord. CCO-99-05, 1999; Ord. 331 Appx. A § 35, 1975)

“User” means discharger. See MSMC 13.56.500. (Ord. CCO-99-05, 1999; Ord. 331 Appx. A § 36, 1975)

“Wastewater” means the water-carried wastes of the community derived from human or industrial sources including domestic wastewater and industrial wastewater. Rainwater, groundwater or drainage of uncontaminated water is not wastewater. (Ord. CCO-99-05, 1999; Ord. 331 Appx. A § 37, 1975)