A. “Agent” shall mean any person duly authorized by the City to perform specific work upon sewerage facilities under permit or under contract.

B. “Applicant” shall mean a person, partnership, entity, firm, association, corporation, or public agency applying for connection to a public sewer, approval of plans to construct or to modify wastewater facilities, or for a permit for industrial wastewater discharge.

C. “Building” shall mean a structure containing one or more fixtures and separated from any other structure.

D. “Building sewer” shall mean a privately maintained sewer which extends across private property from a building to a sewer lateral, public sewer, or private sewer.

E. “City Manager” shall mean the City Manager of the City of Chula Vista.

F. “Director” shall mean the Director of Public Works or designee.

G. “Discharger” shall mean any person who discharges or causes a discharge of wastewater directly or indirectly into the City’s wastewater system or facilities.

H. “Domestic wastewater” shall mean the liquid and waterborne wastes derived from the ordinary living processes in a dwelling unit, said wastes being of such character as to permit satisfactory disposal, without special treatment, into a public sewer.

I. “Fixture” shall mean any plumbing or wastewater outlet requiring a trap or vent.

J. “Food establishment” shall mean a food establishment as defined in Health and Safety Code Section 27520, as it may be amended from time to time.

K. “Grease pretreatment device” shall mean a device conforming to the Uniform Plumbing Code requirements for grease interceptors and/or grease traps approved by the Director and the Director of Development Services, or designee, and designed to remove grease from wastewater before it enters the building sewer.

L. “Industrial wastewater” shall mean all wastewater, including all wastewater from any producing, manufacturing, processing, institutional, commercial, service, agricultural, or other operation, including food establishments, which are required to be controlled by federal, state of California or local regulations or which interfere with the operation and maintenance of the wastewater system or facilities. These exclude domestic wastewater, but may also include wastes of human origin similar to domestic wastewater.

M. “Mass emission rate” shall mean the weight of a specific material discharged to the public sewer during a given time interval.

N. “Parcel” shall mean a piece of land as described or shown upon current records of the county recorder of San Diego County.

O. “Person” shall mean any individual, partnership, entity, firm, association, corporation or public agency including the state of California and the United States of America.

P. “Public sewer” shall mean a sewer owned and operated by the City which is tributary to treatment or reclamation facilities operated or utilized by the City of Chula Vista.

Q. “Private sewer” shall mean a privately maintained sewer constructed from its connection with a public sewer across public and/or private property to provide sewer service to two or more individual parcels of record, and for which a written agreement pursuant to CVMC 13.08.090 has been filed with the Director.

R. “Sewage” shall have the same meaning as “wastewater.”

S. “Sewer connection” shall mean the physical facilities involved and/or the act of construction of a viable juncture between a building sewer or private sewer, and sewer lateral or the public sewer system.

T. “Sewer lateral” shall mean a four-inch or six-inch diameter, privately maintained sewer constructed from its connection with a public sewer across public property to the boundary of such public property so as to provide sewer service to buildings or structures situated upon an individual parcel of record.

U. “Sewer service” shall mean the service and benefits derived through utilization of the public sewer system.

V. “Standard methods” shall mean procedures described in the current edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, as published by the American Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association and the Water Pollution Control Federation.

W. “Suspended solids” shall mean any insoluble material contained as a component of wastewater and capable of separation from the liquid portion of said wastewater by laboratory filtration as determined by the appropriate testing procedure and standard methods.

X. “Treatment facilities” shall mean facilities owned or utilized by the City in the treatment of wastewater or for the reclamation of wastewater.

Y. “Waste” shall mean any and all waste substances, liquid, solid, gaseous, or radioactive, associated with human habitation, or of human or animal origin, or from any producing, manufacturing, processing, institutional, commercial, service, agricultural, food preparation or other operation.

Z. “Wastewater” shall mean waste and water, whether treated or untreated, discharged directly or indirectly into, or permitted to enter, a public sewer. “Wastewater” includes both domestic and industrial wastewater.

AA. “Wastewater constituents and characteristics” shall mean the individual chemical, physical, bacteriological or radiological parameters, including volume, flow rate and such other parameters that define, classify or measure the quality and quantity of wastewater.

BB. “Wastewater system or facilities” shall mean any and all public facilities used by the City for collecting, conveying, pumping, treating, disposing and reclaiming wastewater. (Ord. 3544 § 1, 2023; Ord. 2790, 1999; Ord. 2466 § 7, 1991).