§ 74-76. Definitions.

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

Dosing tank means a watertight tank or receptacle used or intended for use, for the purpose of receiving and retaining the effluent or overflow of a septic tank until discharged by an automatic siphon or pump.

Health officer means the director of environmental health for the county health department or his duly authorized representative.

Septic tank means a watertight tank or receptacle used for the purpose of receiving waste from flush toilets, sink lavatories, bathtubs, showers, laundry drains, basement floor drains, any other similar waste lines and intended to provide for the separation of substantial portions of the suspended solids in such wastes and for the partial destruction by bacterial action in the solids so separated.

Sewage means the combined domestic liquid wastes conducted away from residences, business dwellings, institutions, and other places of human occupancy or any liquid wastes which may be injurious to the health, welfare or safety of the public.

Sewage disposal facilities means privy, cesspool, dry well, flush toilet, sewer pipe, septic tank, subsurface disposal system or a similar device used in the disposal of human excreta or sewage.

Sewer means a covered conduit for the conveying of sewage.

Subsurface disposal system means an arrangement for distributing septic tank effluent or overflow below the ground surface.

(Code 1979, § 21-32)

Cross reference

Definitions generally, § 1-2.