§ 209-1. Definitions and word usage., Chapter 209. Sewage Disposal Systems, Code of Ordinances, Grosse Ile

As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

ASSESSMENTS: The payment required to be made by the Township of Grosse Ile to Wayne County for the retirement of the bonds issued pursuant to Act 40 of the Public Acts of Michigan of 1956, as amended.

AVAILABILITY OF SERVICE CONNECTION CHARGE: The basic connection charge of $390 for the sewer connection from the bond sewer project or a lateral Township sewer in the public right-of-way to the building sewer paid by each premises, user or users of the sewage disposal system plus the additional charges established by this chapter where special conditions exist.

BOND SEWER PROJECT: The bond sewer project constructed at a cost of $4,650,000 by the County of Wayne, State of Michigan, Grosse Ile Sanitary Interceptor Drain and Treatment Plant Drainage District Board.

BUILDING PERMIT: That permit required by the Basic Building Code of the Township for the construction of a complete building or structure and shall not mean permits for the mechanical, electrical or plumbing trades or so-called "footing permits."

BUILDING SEWER: The extension from the building drain on private property to the public sewer connection better known as the availability of service connection or other place of disposal.

CLUB MEMBER: Any individual, person, firm, or corporation who form and are part of an association of persons for the promotion of some common object.

CONTRACT: The contractual arrangement heretofore made, and agreed to between the Grosse Ile Sanitary Interceptor Drain and Treatment Plant Drainage Board and the Township of Grosse Ile.

DIRECT BENEFIT CONNECTION CHARGE: A connection charge of $700 paid by each premises, user or users connected directly to the bond sewer project.

PERSON: Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.

PREMISES: Any property from which emanates that quantity of sewage ordinarily arising from an occupancy of a residential building by a single family of ordinary size.

PRIVATE SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM: Any septic tank, cesspool or other facilities intended or used for the disposal of sanitary sewage, not under Township jurisdiction.

READINESS-TO-SERVE CHARGE: A charge as set in § 209-5 paid by each premises connecting directly to a bond sewer project or each premises connecting directly to any lateral sewer system of the Township.

SANITARY SEWAGE: The liquid or water-carried waste discharged from the sanitary conveniences of dwellings (including houses and hotels), office buildings, factories and any other institution.

SANITARY SEWERS: Those sewers of the sewage disposal system designed for the purpose of carrying sanitary flow only.

SEWAGE: Any combination of sanitary sewage, stormwater, industrial wastes and uncontaminated industrial wastes.

SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM: Includes all sanitary sewers, combined sanitary and storm sewers, plants, works, instrumentalities and properties used or useful in connection with the collection, treatment and/or disposal of sewage and/or industrial wastes, now in existence and owned by the Township of Grosse Ile or hereafter acquired or constructed within the corporate limits of the Township of Grosse Ile by the Township of Grosse Ile.

SHOPPING CENTER: Includes any lot or parcel of land or contiguous lots or parcels of land comprising a total of three or more acres upon which there is located one or more buildings serviced by a central parking area or areas and where there is more than one building arranged so that customers can travel from one retail business or building to another without use of public sidewalks or streets. Gasoline service stations shall not, in any case, be considered a part of or within a shopping center but shall be considered as a separate business for which a separate connection charge shall be required.

STORM SEWERS: Shall be construed and limited to mean only those sewers carrying only stormwaters.

UNIT: Any property which uses that quantity of water ordinarily arising from the occupancy of a residence building by a single family of ordinary size as set forth in the following Schedule of Factors.

USER or USERS: Any premise or premises, building or buildings, connected either directly or indirectly with and using any of the sewage disposal system for the disposition and removal of sewage or wastes. For the purpose of determining sewer connection charges, in the case of shopping centers and in other instances where more than one building is located on one parcel of land, each separate building shall be construed as a separate user notwithstanding the manner of connection to the sewage disposal system, whether directly to a bond sewer project or by connection to a private lateral sewer or Township lateral sewer.