"APWA specifications" means standard specifications for municipal public works construction prepared by the Washington State Chapter, American Public Works Association; latest edition with latest revisions.

"A.S.T.M." means American Society for Testing Materials.

"B.O.D." (denoting biochemical oxygen demand) means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at twenty (20) degrees C., expressed in milligrams per liter.

"Capping permit" means a permit required for the disconnection of sewer service.

"City" means the city of Aberdeen, Washington.

"City sewerage system" means the system of conduits, pumps, treatment plants, and structures, used for the purpose of conveying from their source, treating in any manner, and conveying to final points of disposal, all wastes of any nature permitted by this chapter.

"Cluster living units" means living units, such as trailers, cabins or houses which have utilities operated and maintained by an association or by common owner.

"Commercial service" means all sanitary sewerage system other than domestic service.

"Council" means the city council of the city of Aberdeen, Washington.

"Cover" means the depth of material lying between the top of the sewer or drain and the finish grade immediately above it.

"Domestic service" means any sanitary sewage system serving a living unit.

"Downspout" means a pipe which conducts water from a roof of a building or structure.

"Garbage" means putrescible waste from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.

"Inside" means the side sewer constructed on private property from the plumbing outlet to the side sewers.

"Multiple dwelling" means a multiple family dwelling; namely, a building designed and/or used to house two or more families living independently of each other and including all necessary household functions of each such family, such as motels, hotels and apartments.

"Natural outlet" means any outlet into a water course, pond, ditch, lake, bay, or other body of surface or ground water.

"Other structure" means any building other than a single-family or multiple dwelling.

"Outside connection" means any sewer constructed in a public right-of-way and where the public agency who has jurisdiction of such right-of-way requires a permit fee or any other charge.

"Person" means any individual, company, partnership, corporation, association, society or group and the singular tense shall include the plural.

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

"Plumbing outlet" means in plumbing, the part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system that received the discharge from soil, waste and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the side sewer (house connection). The latter begins thirty (30) inches outside the inner face of the building wall.

"Properly shredded garbage" means garbage which has been Garbage 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 inch in any dimension.

"Public sewer" means any sanitary sewers, including but not limited to trunks, laterals, stubs and forcemains and being constructed by the city or any person within the public right-of-way or perpetual easement obtained by the city.

"Sanitary sewage" means wastewater derived from domestic, commercial and industrial wastes and to which storm, surface and ground water are not intentionally admitted.

"Sanitary sewer" means a sewer which carries sanitary sewage.

"Sewage" means a comprehensive term including industrial waste, storm drainage and wastewater.

"Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.

"Side sewer" means a sanitary sewer pipe leading from a plumbing outlet, drain or other facility to the stub sewer of the public sewer system.

"Single-family dwelling" means a structure designed and/or used to house a single family.

"Structure" means anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires location or attachment to something having location on attachment to something having location on the ground, and shall, in addition, include but not be limited to trailers, mobile homes and housetrailers, but shall not include fences and walls.

"Stub sewer" means a sewer constructed from the lateral or trunk sewer to the property line, or edge of perpetual easement of the property being served.

"Suspended solids" means solids that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension in water, wastewater, or other liquids, which are largely removable by laboratory filtering.

"Unpolluted water" means water in its natural state or water which, after use for any purpose, is not substantially changed as to chemical or bio-chemical qualities.

"Wastewater" means the spent water of a community. From the standing of source, it may be a combination of the liquid and water-carried wastes from residence and commercial buildings, industrial plants, and institutions, together with any groundwater, surface water, and stormwater that may be present.