Pacifica Municipal Code Art. 1 Definitions

Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms in this chapter shall be as defined in this article.

(§ 1, Ord. 181-C.S., eff. September 13, 1976)

"BOD (biochemical oxygen demand)" shall mean the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures in five (5) days at twenty (20) degrees Centigrade expressed in milligrams per liter.

(§ 1, Ord. 181-C.S., eff. September 13, 1976)

"Building drain" shall mean that part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste, and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer. The building drain ends where it connects to the building sewer two (2') feet outside the building wall.

(§ 1, Ord. 181-C.S., eff. September 13, 1976)

"Building sewer" shall mean the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.

(§ 1, Ord. 181-C.S., eff. September 13, 1976)

"Council" shall mean the City Council of the City of Pacifica.

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"Combined sewer" shall mean a sewer receiving both surface runoff and industrial wastes.

(§ 1, Ord. 181-C.S., eff. September 13, 1976)

"Director" shall mean the Director of Community Development and Services of the City or his authorized deputy, agent, or representative.

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"Dwelling unit" shall mean each single-family house, each apartment, or each living quarters having its own separate kitchen facility.

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"Garbage" shall mean putrescible solid waste from the domestic and partial preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage, and sale of produce.

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"Industrial waste" shall mean the water-carried putrescible waste from industrial manufacturing or industrial processing as distinct from sanitary sewage. It shall include the trade wastes produced by, but not limited to, food-processing and bottling plants, food-manufacturing plants, slaughtering plants, tallow works, plating works, disposal services, industrial cleaning plants, fertilizer plants, car and truck washes, laundries, cleaning establishments, agricultural sprayers, cooling plants, industrial plants, or factories and chemical treatment installations. It shall not include sanitary sewage, such as might be discharged from residences, hotels, or restaurants, or from business establishments or premises solely engaged in the sale, storage, or repair of goods, wares, or merchandise, nor shall it include water of a quality acceptable for discharge to the storm drainage system.

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"Industrial waste sewer" shall mean a sewer receiving industrial waste only.

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"Natural outlet" shall mean any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body of surface or ground water.

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

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

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"Premises" shall mean all the parcels of land included by the County Assessor in a single Assessor's parcel number.

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"Properly shredded garbage" shall mean the wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of foods that have been shredded to such degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle greater than one-half (½) inch in any dimension.

(§ 1, Ord. 181-C.S., eff. September 13, 1976)

"Public sewer" shall mean a sewer in publicly-owned land or easements and controlled by the City.

(§ 1, Ord. 181-C.S., eff. September 13, 1976)

"Sanitary sewage" shall mean the water-carried putrescible wastes from residences, hotels, restaurants, or eating houses, or from business establishments or premises engaged solely in the sale, storage, or repair of goods, wares, or merchandise, and which contains garbage, human wastes, or animal wastes.

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"Sanitary sewer" shall mean a sewer which carries sanitary sewage and to which storm surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.

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"Sewage" shall mean a combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments, together with such ground surface and storm waters as may be present.

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

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"Sewage works" shall mean all facilities for collecting, pumping, treating, and disposing of sewage.

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"Sewer" shall mean a pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.

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"Shall" shall be mandatory. "May" shall be permissive.

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"Slug" shall mean any discharge of water, sewage, or industrial waste which, in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flows, exceeds for any period of duration longer than fifteen (15) minutes more than five (5) times the average twenty-four (24) hour concentration or flows during normal operations.

(§ 1, Ord. 181-C.S., eff. September 13, 1976)

"Special sewer" shall mean any sewer or storm drain constructed under the authority of the City, the cost of which was not directly assessed to or borne by the abutting property and which has been or may hereafter be designated as a special sewer by resolution of the Council

(§ 1, Ord. 181-C.S., eff. September 13, 1976)

"Special sewer fee" shall mean a fee established by resolution of the Council to be paid by any person upon the issuance of a permit to connect to a special sewer.

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"Storm drain" (sometimes termed a storm sewer) shall mean a sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage but which excludes sewage and industrial wastes other than uncontaminated cooling water.

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"Suspended solid" shall mean a solid that either floats on the surface of, or is in suspension in, water, sewage, or other liquids and which is removable by laboratory filtering.

(§ 1, Ord. 181-C.S., eff. September 13, 1976)

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

(§ 1, Ord. 181-C.S., eff. September 13, 1976)