§ 28-1. Purpose and scope.

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The purpose of this Chapter is to establish requirements for the sewage system and for discharges into such system.

Unless otherwise defined in this Chapter or by use intended to have a different meaning, certain terms and phrases used in this Chapter are defined as follows:

(a) "Director" means the Director of Public Works of the City or such other person as may be designated by the Director of Public Works to perform the services or make the determinations permitted or required in this Chapter to be made by the Director of Public Works.
(b) "Domestic waste" means waste which contains human excreta or is normal animal or vegetable household waste.
(c) "Industrial waste" means liquid and/or solids other than domestic waste.
(d) "Lot" means a parcel of land consisting of one or more contiguous lots of record in one ownership.
(e) "Person" means any individual, firm, company, partnership, association or private, public or municipal corporation's responsible corporate office, the United States of America, the State, districts and all political subdivisions, governmental agencies and mandatories thereof, except the City.
(f) "Premises" means a parcel or parcels of real estate or portions thereof including any improvements thereon which is determined by the City to be a single user for purposes of receiving, using or paying for sewer service.
(g) "Public owned treatment works" (POTW) means a treatment works as defined by Section 212 of the Act (33 U.S.C. 1292) which is owned in this instance by the City. This definition includes any sewers that convey wastewater to the POTW treatment plant, but does not include pipes, sewers, or other conveyances not connected to the facility providing treatment. For the purposes of this Chapter, "POTW" shall also include any sewers that convey wastewater from persons outside the City, who are, by contract or agreement users of the City treatment plant.
(h) "Sewage system" means the City's facilities for the collection, storage, treatment, and disposal of industrial wastes or domestic waste or both and includes monitoring, sampling, metering, other devices and appurtenances.
(i) "Sewer connection" means a sewer line conveying waste from the premises of a user to a main or lateral.
(j) "Sewer lateral" means a sewer line which discharges into a sewer main and/or receives sewage from a sewer connection.
(k) "Sewer main" means a sewer line receiving sewage from one or more sewer laterals or sewer connections.
(l) "Sewer service" means discharge or authority to discharge into the sewage system.
(m) "Significant industrial user" (SIU) includes:

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City of Oakdale, CA § 28-1

OAKDALE CITY CODE

§ 28-4

(1) All categorical users, and;
(2) Any noncategorical users that:
- i. Discharges twenty-five thousand (25,000) gallons or more per day of process wastewater (excluding domestic wastewater),
ii. Contributes a process waste stream which makes up five (5%) percent or more of the average dry weather hydraulic or organic (BOD, SS) capacity of the POTW, or
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- iii. Has a reasonable potential, in the opinion of the City, to adversely affect the POTW; 
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(n) "User" means any person who discharges, causes or permits the discharge of waste into the sewage system.
(o) "User classification" means a classification of user based on the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Manual. Classification of users as determined in this Chapter shall be as follows:
- (1) "Commercial user" means any user not defined as a residential or industrial user.
- (2) "Industrial user" means any user engaged in the business of processing or manufacturing agricultural products, animals, poultry, goods, wares, or other products or materials who processes or manufactures the same for the purpose of sale, resale, or redelivery in processed or manufactured form.
- (3) "Residential user" means domestic user, schools, churches and those structures exclusively domiciliary in nature, including nursing homes and convalescent hospitals, single-family homes, flats and apartments and boardinghouses (but excluding transient rooms, hotels and motels and all other quarters primarily offered to the transient trade).
- (4) "Significant industrial user" is defined in subsection (m) of this Section.
(p) "Waste" includes sewage and any and all other waste substances, water, liquid, solid, gaseous or radioactive associated with human habitation, or of human, fowl or animal origin, or from any producing, manufacturing or processing operation of whatever nature, including such waste placed within containers of whatever nature prior to, and for purposes of, disposal. [Ord. No. 679, § 1(part), 1976; Ord. No. 1252-18 § 1]

§ 28-2. When city will furnish service. [Ord. No. 679, § 1(part), 1976.]

When mains and laterals are in place or within a reasonable distance from a particular parcel, as determined by the director, the city may furnish sewer service to the property upon payment of the appropriate charges and costs.

§ 28-3. Ownership of lines. [Ord. No. 679, § 1(part), 1976.]

Lines on private property belong to the property owner. All lines and appurtenant facilities constructed in or under streets, easements, or alleys shall become the property of the city upon the completion of the installation and upon the final inspection and approval of the lines by the director.