§ 8.93.010. Definitions.

For the purpose of this chapter, the following words and phrases are defined, and shall be construed as set out in this chapter:

"Board of supervisors" shall mean the board of supervisors of the County of San Luis Obispo.

"Building" shall mean any structure within the service area which generates wastewater.

"Building sewer" shall mean that portion of a sewer that adjoins a building and extends to the edge of the adjacent public right-of-way or public sewer easement where the lateral sewer is located. The purpose of the building sewer is to connect a building to a lateral sewer, so that wastewater can be conveyed from the building to the lateral sewer.

"California Plumbing Code" shall mean the California Plumbing Code as adopted, modified, amended and/or supplemented in Title 19 of the County Code.

"County" shall mean the County of San Luis Obispo.

"Director of public works" shall mean the director of the San Luis Obispo County Department of Public Works and Transportation, or his/her designee.

"Discharge" means any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping, disposing or releasing of any wastewater on or in the building sewer, lateral sewer, or main sewer. (Variations of the word discharge, including discharges and discharged, shall derive from this definition.)

"Fats, oils, and greases" shall mean the organic polar compounds derived from animal and/ or plant sources that contain multiple carbon chain triglyceride molecules. These substances are detectable and measurable using analytical test procedures established in the United States Code of Federal Regulations 40 CFR 136, as may be amended from time to time. All are sometimes referred to herein as "grease" or "greases".

"Food service establishments" shall mean any building used for processing, preparing, or serving food or beverages for consumption by the public, including, but not limited to, restaurants, commercial kitchens, cafeterias, hotels, school kitchens, hospitals, prisons, correctional facilities and care institutions. These establishments use one or more of the following preparation activities: cooking by frying (all methods), baking (all methods), grilling, sautéing, rotisserie cooking, broiling (all methods), boiling, blanching, roasting, toasting, or poaching. Also included are infrared heating, searing, barbecuing, and any other food preparation activity that produces a hot, non-drinkable food product in or on a receptacle that requires washing.

"Food garbage" shall mean the solid wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage, and sale of food products.

"Garbage grinder" shall mean a device designed and installed on private property to grind or otherwise treat food garbage so that it can be disposed of through the building sewer, lateral sewer, and main sewer.

"Grease, oil, or sand interceptor" shall mean a device designed and installed on private property to accumulate grease and volatile liquids, or sand and grit, so as to prevent them from entering into the building sewer, lateral sewer, or main sewer.

"Grease trap" shall mean a grease control device designed and installed on private property to separate and retain most fats, oils, and greases, and solids, excluding sanitary wastes, so as to prevent them from entering into the building sewer, lateral sewer, or main sewer.

"Lateral sewer" shall mean that portion of a sewer lying within a public right of way or public sewer easement that connects to the main sewer. The purpose of the lateral sewer is to connect a building sewer to a main sewer, so that wastewater can be conveyed from the building sewer to the main sewer.

"Lot" shall mean the same thing as a "parcel".

"Main sewer" shall mean that portion of the sewer that accepts wastewater from lateral sewer(s) for the purpose of conveying it to the water recycling facility. The main sewer does not include any portion of any lateral sewer or building sewer.

"Onsite wastewater treatment system" shall mean any septic system and any other private disposal system, community collection and disposal systems, or alternative collection and disposal systems that use subsurface disposal.

"Owner" shall mean the person or persons, firm, corporation or partnership that is the owner of record of a premises identified on the last equalized assessment roll or holds a possessory or fee interest in real property within the service area that has a building on it. In the context of a leased building, both the lessor and the lessee shall be deemed an owner, and both shall be responsible for any violations of this chapter.

"Parcel" shall mean:

(1)

A parcel of real property shown on a subdivision or plat map, required by the Subdivision Map Act (or local ordinance adopted pursuant thereto) to be recorded before sale of parcels shown on the map or plat, at the time the map was recorded;

(2)

A parcel of real property that has been issued a certificate of compliance pursuant to Government Code section 66499.35; or

(3)

A parcel of real property not described in (1) or (2) above, provided the parcel resulted from a separate conveyance or from a decree of a court of competent jurisdiction which was recorded before the requirement of the filing of the subdivision map by the Subdivision Map Act or local ordinance adopted pursuant thereto.

"Person" shall mean any human being, individual, firm, company, partnership, associated, corporation, government agency or other entity. (For ease of reference, the generic pronoun "it" is also used herein to refer to "person".)

"pH" shall refer to a numeric scale used to specify the acidity or basicity of aqueous solution.

"Public works department" shall mean the county department of public works and transportation.

"Service area" shall mean the area shown in the San Luis Obispo County Wastewater Assessment District No. 1 as recorded in the official records of the San Luis Obispo County Clerk-Recorder's Office, on February 27, 2008, which area is a portion of, and entirely within, the County of San Luis Obispo.

"Sewer" shall mean a pipe or conduit for carrying wastewater.

"Wastewater" shall mean any water, water-carried wastes, and the water carrying such wastes, that is discharged to, or passes through any sewer.

"Water recycling facility" shall mean the treatment facilities and support structures used for treatment of wastewater generated within the service area, and including the lot upon which such facilities are located.

(Ord. No. 3335, § 1, 10-18-16)