Sec. 29.116. - Definitions.

As used in this article, the following terms are defined in this section.

Administrative authority means the director of the water utilities department or his or her designated representative.

Authorized enforcement officials means the director of the water utilities department, director of public works; the director of the planning department; the director of the housing and neighborhood services department; the director of building and safety, the chief of police, and the chief of the fire department.

Authorized enforcement staff means any city employee supervised by an authorized enforcement official, assigned to duties involving permits and other city approvals, inspections, and enforcement related to this chapter.

Authorized inspector means the director of the water utilities department or his or her designated representative.

Best management practices means schedules of activities, pollution treatment practices or devices, prohibitions of practices, general good housekeeping practices, pollution prevention and educational practices, maintenance procedures, and other management practices or devices to prevent or reduce the discharge of pollutants directly or indirectly to sewer system or the storm water conveyance system. Best management practices also include but are not limited to treatment practices, operating procedures, and practices to control site runoff, spillage or leaks, sludge or water disposal, or drainage from raw materials storage. Best management practices may include any type of pollution prevention and pollution control measure that can help to achieve compliance with this article.

California Plumbing Code (CPC) contains mechanical design and construction standards. Provisions contained in the CPC provide minimum standards to safeguard life or limb, health, property and public welfare by regulating and controlling the design, construction, installation, quality of materials, location, operation, and maintenance or use of heating, ventilating, cooling, refrigeration systems, incinerators and other miscellaneous heat-producing appliances.

Change in operations means any modification in the operational procedures of a commercial kitchen which has the potential to significantly increase the amount of grease generated by food preparation including, without limitation, any increase of twenty-five (25) percent or greater in the seating capacity, any substantial increase in the hours of operation, any significant increase in the size of the kitchen or the number of food service or food preparation employees, or any significant change in the size or type of food preparation equipment that impacts grease interceptor system.

Commercial kitchen shall mean any business in the city that has a full service or take-out restaurant, drive- thru, catering kitchen, cafeteria, store, commercial kitchen or any other establishment serving food for consumption and operating for the purpose of storing, preparing, serving, manufacturing, packaging, unpacking, displaying or otherwise handling food for sale or distribution to the public, other entities, and other groups or persons. Commercial kitchen shall include any commercial establishment which has processes or equipment that use or produce dairy products, fats, oils, and grease, or also produce grease vapors, steam, fumes, smoke or odors that are required to be removed by a Type I or Type II hood, as defined in California Uniform Retail Food Service Establishments Law (CURFFL), California Health and Safety Code Section 113785. Commercial kitchen shall include any operation that changes the form, flavor

or consistency of food for resale or other distribution, assembles or hot holds food. Establishments engaged only in assembling or serving food that is prepared entirely off-site, and whose kitchen equipment consists only of beverage warmers and microwaves are not considered commercial kitchens.

Director means the water utilities director, the building department director, or any other official(s) as designated by the city manager.

Food grinder means any device installed in the sewage system for the purpose of disposing food waste in the public sewer system.

Grease means any oil, fat, or oily, fatty substance such as vegetable or animal fat that turns or may turn viscous or solidifies with a change in temperature or other conditions.

Grease control device means any grease interceptor, hydro-mechanical grease interceptor or other mechanism, which attaches to wastewater plumbing fixtures for the purpose of collecting grease for off-site disposal.

Grease interceptor means a two (2) or three (3) compartment device that is generally located, according to the California Plumbing Code (CPC), underground between a food service establishment ("FSE") and the connection to the public sewer system. These devices are large and primarily use gravity to separate grease from the wastewater as it moves from one compartment to the next. All grease interceptors shall be installed according to the city adopted grease interceptor specification drawing and in compliance with section 29.124, subsections 6—14. All grease interceptors must be cleaned, maintained, and have all fats, oils and grease ("FOG") disposed of in a proper manner on a regular interval in order to properly function.

Hydro-mechanical grease interceptor is a device meant to intercept nonpetroleum fats, oil, and grease (FOG) from a wastewater discharge and is identified by flow rate, and separation and retention efficiency. These devices are required to control the flow rate entering the device with either an external flow control or a built-in flow control (non-external), either directly connected or indirectly connected to the sewer system. It must be of equivalent FOG removal capacity as that of a grease interceptor.

Person means any individual, firm, corporation, partnership, association or other group or combination of individuals acting as a business unit.

Remodeling means any physical change to a commercial kitchen that requires a tenant improvement or building permit and may involve under slab plumbing work in a commercial kitchen.

Wastewater means water, including, but not limited to, water containing grease, animal or vegetable matter and water, whether treated or untreated, that is discharged into or permitted to enter a public sewer.

(Ord. No. 07-OR0021-1, § 1, 1-17-07; Ord. No. 18-OR0021-1, § 1, 1-10-2018)