a.“Building drain” means the lowest horizontal piping of a wastewater drainage system that receives the discharge from pipes inside the walls of the building, and conveys it to the sanitary sewer lateral, which begins two feet outside the inner face of the building wall.

b.“Private sanitary sewer collection system” means any sanitary sewer pipe originating or located at least partially on private property collecting wastewater from more than one sanitary sewer lateral, including but not limited to: apartment buildings, business complexes, mobile home parks, condominiums, or townhomes. This excludes single-family residential property with an accessory dwelling unit.

c.“Property owner” means a person that owns a parcel of real property, or that person’s authorized representative including a tenant or contractor. As used in this subsection, “person” means an individual, trust, corporation, nonprofit organization, homeowners’ association, partnership, firm, joint venture, limited liability company, or association. A public entity is not a property owner for purposes of this article.

d.“Sanitary sewer” means a pipe or conduit which carries wastewater and to which storm water, surface water, and groundwater are not intentionally admitted.

e.“Sanitary sewer lateral” means a pipe that conveys wastewater from a property building drain to a public sewer main, including the connection to the main.

f.“Sanitary sewer lateral inspection form” means any form provided by the City of Monterey in order to verify compliance with this article.

g.“Wastewater” means liquid and water which is generated or discharged by residential, industrial, commercial, municipal, mobile, agricultural, or other sources, whether treated or untreated, which is contributed into or permitted to enter the publicly owned treatment works as defined by the Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. § 1292). (Ord. 3579 § 2, 2018)