Poway Municipal Code Art. I General Provisions and Definitions

This chapter shall be known as the “septic tank ordinance.”

(CC § 68.301; Ord. 29 § 1, 1981)

Whenever in this chapter the following terms are used, they shall have the meaning respectively ascribed to them in this section:

A.

Approval.

Whenever the term “approval” or “approved” appears in this chapter, the approval of the Director is meant, and/or approval shall mean meeting the approval of the Director as the result of investigation and/or tests conducted by the Director or by reason of accepted principles or tests by national authorities, technical or scientific organizations, or a research laboratory of recognized authority.

B.

“Department”

means the Department of Health Services.

C.

“Director”

means the Health Officer.

D.

“Drainage system” or “drainage piping”

means and includes all the piping within public or private premises which conveys sewage or other liquid wastes to a legal point of disposal, but does not include the mains or laterals of a public sewer system.

E.

“Plumbing”

includes all drainage systems, both direct and indirect, and all vent piping, water piping and other piping in any building or within the boundaries of any property through which seepage, water, wastewater or any other substance or liquid is conveyed.

(CC §§ 68.302 – 68.307; Ord. 29 § 1, 1981)