19-27a01. Sewer districts in any county; definitions.
19-27a01
19-27a01. Sewer districts in any county; definitions.
Whenever used in this act, the following words shall have the following
respective meanings unless different meanings clearly appear from the context:
(a) "Governing body" or "board" means the board of county commissioners
of the county in which the sewer district is located;
(b) "sewer district" means any wastewater, main, lateral, joint or submain
storm or sanitary sewer district;
(c) "improvement" means any trunk lines, outfall or intercepting sewers,
manholes, pumps, pumping stations, lift stations, disposal plants and any
appurtenances and apparatus necessary for the collection, storage, treatment
and disposal of storm or sanitary sewage and wastewater;
(d) "improve" means constructing, reconstructing, enlarging or extending
any improvement;
(e) "sewage system" means any property owned by the sewer district or
any property in which the sewer district has a property interest and any
trunk lines, outfall or intercepting sewers, manholes, pumps, pumping stations,
lift stations, disposal plants and any appurtenances and apparatus necessary
for the collection, storage, treatment and disposal of storm or sanitary
sewage and wastewater.
(f) "federal law" and "federal pollution control laws" means the clean
water act, 33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq., and amendments thereto, also known
as the federal water pollution control act, and all administrative regulations
adopted pursuant thereto;
(g) "industrial user" means any user of the sewage system identified as
an "industrial user" under the criteria established by the United States
environmental protection agency in 40 CFR 35.905, and amendments thereto;
(h) "person" means any individual, firm, corporation, partnership,
organization
or other entity and departments of government of the state or of the United
States and political subdivisions thereof;
(i) "user" means the owner of the land or the person in control of the
premises that discharges or contributes any wastes, storm or wastewater
to the sewage system.
History: L. 1983, ch. 99, § 2; July 1.