Yolo County Municipal Code Art. 1 Definitions

For the purposes of this chapter, unless otherwise apparent from the context, certain words and phrases used in this chapter are defined in this article.

(Article I, Ord. 497; as amended by § 2, Ord. 1470, eff. July 14, 2016)

"B.O.D." (denoting biochemical oxygen demand) shall mean the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five (5) days at twenty (20) degrees centigrade, expressed in parts per million by weight.

(§ 128, Ord. 497; as amended by § 2, Ord. 1470, eff. July 14, 2016)

"Control manhole" shall mean a manhole in the building sewer line for the observation, sampling, and measurement of the wastes.

(§ 122, Ord. 497; as amended by § 2, Ord. 1470, eff. July 14, 2016)

“District” shall mean:

(a) A sewer maintenance district under the control of the Board; or

(b) A County service area within the County which area provides extended sewer service.

(§ 101, Ord. 497, as amended by § 1, Ord. 604; as amended by § 2, Ord. 1470, eff. July 14, 2016)

"Engineer" shall mean the Director of Public Works of the County or his duly authorized representative acting as Engineer for the District.

(§ 104, Ord. 497; as amended by § 2, Ord. 1470, eff. July 14, 2016)

"Engineering Division" shall mean the Department of Public Works of the County.

(§ 105, Ord. 497; as amended by § 2, Ord. 1470, eff. July 14, 2016)

"Garbage" shall mean solid wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage, and sale of produce. (§ 126, Ord. 497; as amended by § 2, Ord. 1470, eff. July 14, 2016)

"Properly shredded garbage" shall mean the wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food, which wastes have been shredded to such a degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle greater than one-half (1/2") inch in any dimension. (§ 127, Ord. 497; as amended by § 2, Ord. 1470, eff. July 14, 2016)

"Industrial wastes" shall mean liquid wastes from industrial processes, as distinct from sanitary sewage. (§ 125, Ord. 497; as amended by § 2, Ord. 1470, eff. July 14, 2016)

"Lot" shall mean any piece or parcel of land bounded, defined, or shown upon the latest map, plat, or deed recorded in the office of the County Recorder; provided, however, where any building, or improvements appurtenant to such building, cover more area than a lot, as defined in this section, "lot" shall mean and include all such pieces or parcels of land on which such buildings or improvements are wholly or partly located. (§ 103, Ord. 497; as amended by § 2, Ord. 1470, eff. July 14, 2016)

"Natural outlet" shall mean any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body of surface water or ground water. (§ 131, Ord. 497; as amended by § 2, Ord. 1470, eff. July 14, 2016)

"Outside user" shall mean any person responsible for the payment of sewer service fees for premises served outside the boundaries of a District. (§ 108, Ord. 497; as amended by § 2, Ord. 1470, eff. July 14, 2016)

"Paved surface" shall mean any form of pavement used on any street in the County, whether such pavement is composed of concrete, asphalt, oil, gravel, crushed rock, or any combination of such materials. (§ 111, Ord. 497; as amended by § 2, Ord. 1470, eff. July 14, 2016)

"Permit" shall mean any written authorization required pursuant to the provisions of this chapter or any regulation of a District for the installation of any sewage works. (§ 109, Ord. 497; as amended by § 2, Ord. 1470, eff. July 14, 2016)

"Person" shall mean any individual, firm, company, association, society, organization, partnership, corporation, or group. (§ 107, Ord. 497; as amended by § 2, Ord. 1470, eff. July 14, 2016)

"pH" shall mean the logarithm of the reciprocal of the hydrogen ion concentration in grams per liter of solution. (§ 129, Ord. 497; as amended by § 2, Ord. 1470, eff. July 14, 2016)

"Sewage" shall mean the liquid wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments, which wastes contain animal or vegetable matter in suspension. (§ 115, Ord. 497; as amended by § 2, Ord. 1470, eff. July 14, 2016)

"Sanitary sewage" shall mean any waste discharging in a District sewage system, which waste contains human or animal excreta. (§ 116, Ord. 497; as amended by § 2, Ord. 1470, eff. July 14, 2016)

"Sewage treatment plant" shall mean any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage. (§ 124, Ord. 497; as amended by § 2, Ord. 1470, eff. July 14, 2016)

"Sewage works" shall mean all facilities for collecting, pumping, treating, and disposing of sewage effluent. (§ 114, Ord. 497; as amended by § 2, Ord. 1470, eff. July 14, 2016)

"Sewer" shall mean a pipe or conduit for carrying sewage. (§ 117, Ord. 497; as amended by § 2, Ord. 1470, eff. July 14, 2016)

“Building sewer” shall mean that part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste, and other drainage pipes from the building and conveys such discharge to the junction with the house connection sewer at the lot property line or sewer easement line. (§ 120, Ord. 497)

"House connection sewer" shall mean the portion of a sewer located within a public street or public easement connecting a building sewer to the public sewer. (§ 119, Ord. 497; as amended by § 2, Ord. 1470, eff. July 14, 2016)

"Private sewer" shall mean a sewer serving an independent sewage disposal system not connected with a public sewer and which accommodates one or more buildings or industries. (§ 121, Ord. 497; as amended by § 2, Ord. 1470, eff. July 14, 2016)

"Public sewer" shall mean any sewer, other than a house connection sewer, which has been constructed in a street and is part of the public sewer system of the District. (§ 118, Ord. 497; as amended by § 2, Ord. 1470, eff. July 14, 2016)

"Storm dram" shall mean a conduit which carries storm and surface waters and drainage but excludes sanitary sewage and polluted industrial wastes. (§ 123, Ord. 497; as amended by § 2, Ord. 1470, eff. July 14, 2016)

"Street" shall mean any public highway, road, street, avenue, alley, way, walk, easement, or right-of-way. (§ 110, Ord. 497; as amended by § 2, Ord. 1470, eff. July 14, 2016)

"Suspended solids" shall mean solids which either float on the surface of, or are in suspension in, water, sewage, or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory filtration expressed in parts per million by weight. (§ 130, Ord. 497; as amended by § 2, Ord. 1470, eff. July 14, 2016)

"Watercourse" shall mean a channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently. (§ 132, Ord. 497; as amended by § 2, Ord. 1470, eff. July 14, 2016)