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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 THEREFORE; 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 1
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this ordinance shall be as follows:
Section 1: “BOD” (denoting Biochemical Oxygen Demand) shall mean the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five (5) days at 20°C., expressed in milligrams per liter.
Section 2: “Building Drain” shall mean that part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning five (5) feet (1.5 meters) outside the inner face of the building wall.
Section 3: “Building Sewer” shall mean the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
Section 4: “Combined Sewer” shall mean a sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
Section 5: “Garbage” shall mean soil wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
Section 6: “Industrial Wastes” shall mean the liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes, trade, or business as distinct from sanitary sewage.
Section 7: “Natural Outlet” shall mean any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or groundwater.
Section 8: “Person” shall mean any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.
Section 9: “pH” shall mean the logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter or solution.
Section 10: “Properly Shredded ...
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