§ 18-1. Definitions.

For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings:

(a)

Additional work: Work that is performed by the developer, by agreement with the director, which is not necessary to provide utility service to the developer's property but which facilitates future extensions of utility facilities.

(b)

Ancillary charges: Charges that are specifically set forth in this chapter for services that are indirectly related to utility service and that provide a special benefit to the person being charged.

(c)

BOD or biochemical oxygen demand: The amount of oxygen that is used in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter, under standard laboratory procedure, in five days at 20 degrees Celsius, expressed in parts per million. The laboratory procedure shall be conducted in accordance with the procedures set forth in 40 CFR 136.

(d)

Capital cost recovery (CCR) charge: The cost of providing facilities to serve new customers.

(e)

Connection fee: The fee that is paid to the county to connect or upgrade an existing connection to the utility system.

(f)

Consumer: Any person who receives utility service from the county and who is liable to the county for charges for that service.

(g)

Developer: (i) Any person who develops or proposes to develop a parcel of land as a unit under single ownership or unified control for any residential, commercial or industrial purpose except when the parcel is primarily used for agricultural purposes; (ii) any person who is a subdivider as defined in the subdivision ordinance; (iii) the Virginia Department of Transportation when it constructs or relocates roads in a way that disrupts wells or septic systems so that they must be replaced by an extension of the utility system; or (iv) the successors in interest to any party in categories (i) or (ii).

(h)

Director: The director of utilities or any person designated by him to act on his behalf.

(i)

Dwelling or dwelling unit: Shall have the same meaning as in the zoning ordinance.

(j)

Dwelling, multiple family: Shall have the same meaning as in the zoning ordinance.

(k)

Dwelling, single family: Shall have the same meaning as in the zoning ordinance.

(l)

Dwelling, two family: Shall have the same meaning as in the zoning ordinance.

(m)

Equivalent residential unit (ERU): A unit established by the director as a benchmark for comparing utility demands that are generated by different classes of customers.

(n)

Facilities: The county's water lines, wastewater lines and all appurtenances to those lines.

(o)

GIS: Geographic information system owned and operated by the county.

(p)

Infiltration: Water that enters the wastewater system and wastewater service connections from the ground.

(q)

Inflow: Water that enters the wastewater system and that is not wastewater or infiltration.

(r)

Manufactured home: Shall have the same meaning as in the zoning ordinance.

(s)

Manufactured home park: Shall have the same meaning as in the zoning ordinance.

(t)

Manufactured home subdivision: Shall have the same meaning as in the zoning ordinance.

(u)

Normal domestic wastewater: Waterborne wastes that are normally discharged from the sanitary facilities of dwellings, apartment houses, hotels, office buildings, factories and institutions, and that do not contain groundwater, storm surface water or industrial waste.

(v)

Off-site extension: An extension of a utility line from the existing line to the developer's property.

(w)

Oversize line: A utility line that is larger than the line needed to serve a developer's property or eight inches in diameter, whichever is larger.

(x)

Septage: Normal domestic wastewater that is discharged from a septic tank into the wastewater system.

(y)

Townhouse: Shall have the same meaning as in the zoning ordinance.

(z)

Utility or utilities: The county water and wastewater system or, when the context requires, water or wastewater system.

(aa)

Virtual meter size:

(i)

The meter size, based on standard plumbing fixtures, which serves a commercial consumer who installs plumbing fixtures that require a lower total volume but a higher instantaneous flow than standard fixtures; or,

(ii)

The meter size that provides water service to a residential consumer, excluding water service for fire protection.

(bb)

Wastewater: Normal domestic and industrial waste which enters the wastewater system carried by water from residential, commercial and industrial establishments or other places and infiltration.

(cc)

Wastewater system: All of the facilities that are owned by the county which transport or treat wastewater.

(dd)

Water: Water that does not contain enough impurities to cause human disease or harmful physiological effects and that has bacteriological and chemical qualities which conform to the standards for potable water that have been established by the director and by the state department of health's Virginia Waterworks Regulations.

(ee)

Water system: All of the facilities that are owned by the county which impound, transport or treat water.

(Code 1978, § 20-2; Ord. of 3-12-14, § 1; Ord. of 8-24-16(1), § 1)

Cross reference— Definitions and rules of construction generally, § 1-2.

(Code 1978, § 20-2; Ord. of 3-12-14, § 1; Ord. of 8-24-16(1), § 1)

Cross reference

Definitions and rules of construction generally, § 1-2.