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Certain words and phrases used in this chapter, unless otherwise clearly indicated by their context, mean as follows. Unless otherwise defined below the definitions in Chapter 18.20 CMC apply.

(1) “Designated City official” means the City employee(s) designated by the City Manager to be responsible for enforcing the terms of this chapter.

(2) “Group A water system” means a public water system with 15 or more service connections, regardless of the number of people served, or a system serving an average of 25 or more people per day for 60 or more days within a calendar year, regardless of the number of service connections.

(3) “Group B water system” means a public water system that is not a Group A water system, with less than 15 service connections and:

(a) Fewer than 25 people per day; or

(b) Twenty-five or more people per day for fewer than 60 days per year, provided the system does not serve 1,000 or more people for two or more consecutive days.

(4) “Public sewer” means any sewer or appurtenant facility other than a side sewer, either owned or operated by a water-sewer district within the jurisdiction of the City of Covington and approved by or under permit from the Washington State Department of Ecology, the Washington State Department of Health, and/or a local health officer at Public Health – Seattle & King County.

(5) “On-site sewage system” (OSS) means an integrated system of components, located on or nearby the property it serves, that conveys, stores, treats, and/or provides subsurface soil treatment and dispersal of sewage. It consists of a collection system, a treatment component or treatment sequence, and a soil dispersal component. An on-site sewage system also refers to a holding tank sewage system or other system that does not have a soil dispersal component.

(6) “Sewage” means liquid-carried waste discharged from the sanitary facilities of buildings occupied or used by people.

(7) “Side sewer” means any sewer line used or installed by any person to conduct waste from any property to a public sewer. (Ord. 12-17 § 3)