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AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE JONESBORO ORDINANCE NO.1346 “AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE USE OF PUBLIC SEWERS AND DRAINS; AND THE DISCHARGE OF WATERS AND WASTES INTO THE PUBLIC SEWER SYSTEM; PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATIONS THEREOF; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES, IN THE CITY OF JONESBORO, CRAIGHEAD COUNTY, ARKANSAS.”
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BE IT ORDAINED AND ENACTED by the Council of the City of Jonesboro, Arkansas, as follows:
Article I
Amendments
Section 1: Article 1, Meaning of Terms, of Jonesboro Ordinance No.1346, shall be amended as follows: Add the following sections:
Section 25: “COD” (Chemical Oxygen Demand) means measure of the oxygen consuming capacity of inorganic and organic matter present in the water of wastewater expressed in mg/1 as the amount of oxygen consumed from a chemical oxidant in a specific test, but not differentiating between stable and unstable organic matter and thus not necessarily correlating with biochemical oxygen demand.
Section 26: “Control Manhole” means a manhole giving access to a building sewer at some point before the building sewer discharge mixes with other discharges in the public sewer.
Section 27: “Milligrams per Liter” (mg/1) means the same as parts per million and is a weight-to-volume ratio; the milligrams-per-liter value multiplied by the factor 8.34 shall be equivalent to pounds per million gallons of water.
Section 28: “Normal Domestic Wastewater” means wastewater excluding that from non-residential uses discharged by a person into sanitary sewers in which the average concentration of total suspended solids is not more that 250mg/1 and BOD is not more than 250 mg/1.
Section 29: “Owner” shall mean the “person” or “persons” who posses any interest in the structure or property to which such ownership relate.
Section 30: “Pretreatment” shall mean treatment of sewage required by the Approving Authority prior to its being discharged into the public sewer.
Section 31: “Sewer Surcharge” shall mean a sewer service charge above t...
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