§ 110-91. Definitions.

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this division, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

Applicant means an owner of real property who submits an application for sewer service in accordance with the provisions of section 110-129.

Application fee means the fee which shall accompany any application for a sewer permit, and which shall be the amount set in the rate resolution in effect at the time the application is submitted.

Authorized for connection means any person who has paid and the director has accepted a connection fee paid in United States currency or check prior to March 11, 1982, in reliance on representations of a properly authorized county official that sewer service would be available at a time certain for such residence, residential or commercial development.

Collection system permit means a permit or approval granted by DER/DEP, the state division of health or their predecessor agency approving the construction or installation of a sewage collection/transmission system.

Connection fee means the fee which shall be paid prior to the issuance of a certificate of occupancy, and which shall be the amount in the rate resolution.

Director means the director of the utilities services department.

Drain field means a system of open jointed or perforated pipe or alternate distribution units which receive flow from septic tanks and other types of disposal systems. The system is designed to distribute effluent for oxidation and absorption by the soil.

FDOH means the state agency, the Florida Department of Health in Brevard County.

Incremental increase means the amount of the increase in flow described in gallons per day (gpd) which the board of county commissioners will authorize to be connected in a service area of a sewage treatment plant owned by the county.

Limited capacity service area means an area in which the board of county commissioners by resolution finds that limited or no capacity exists for additional service connections.

Limited capacity service area septic tank permit means a permit issued under subdivision II of this division allowing the construction and use of a septic tank for the disposal of sewage waste on an interim basis for a limited capacity service area as defined in this section.

Limited capacity service area septic tank permit fee means the fee which shall accompany an application for a limited capacity service area septic tank permit.

Notice by mail means a written notice delivered to the U.S. Postal Service for mailing by certified mail to the person designated as the applicant and addressed to the mailing address listed on an application filed with the DER/DEP for a collection system permit.

Notice by publication means a notice which is published in a newspaper of general circulation in the county. The notice shall contain the name of the applicant and the name of the establishment which will be served as listed on the application for a DER collection system permit.

Onsite sewage treatment and disposal system or OSTDS includes conventional septic tank and drainfield systems and is defined in F.S. § 381.0065(2)(k) to mean "a system that contains a standard subsurface, filled, or mound drainfield system; an aerobic treatment unit; a graywater system tank; a laundry wastewater system tank; a septic tank; a grease interceptor; a pump tank; a solids or effluent pump; a waterless, incinerating, or organic waste-composting toilet; or a sanitary pit privy that is installed or proposed to be installed beyond the building sewer on land of the owner or on other land to which the owner has the legal right to install a system. The term includes any item placed within, or intended to be used as a part of or in conjunction with, the system. This term does not include package sewage treatment facilities and other treatment works regulated under F.S. ch. 403.

Package facility permit means a permit issued under subdivision II of this division allowing the construction and use of a package wastewater treatment facility for the disposal of sewage waste on an interim basis in a limited capacity service area, as defined in this section, or any other area of the county provided sewer service by the county utility system where limited or no capacity exists for additional sewer connections.

Package facility permit fee means the fee which shall accompany an application for package facility permit.

Package wastewater treatment facility means a wastewater treatment facility having a design average daily flow of over 2,000 gallons and up to, but not including, 300,000 gallons per day.

Prior environmental services division certification means the execution by the director or his predecessor of the statement of the sewage treatment plant owner on the application for a collection system permit or the execution on behalf of the county of an applicant for a collection system permit.

Public water supply system means any central potable water supply system owned by a unit of government or under the jurisdiction of the state public service commission or the state health and rehabilitative services department and which supplies potable water to more than one customer.

Rate of flow means the rate of flow for a sewer connection into the county utility system expressed in gallons per day.

Septic tank means a water-type tank or receptacle used as a reservoir for receiving or disposing of sewage waste.

Sewer capacity reservation charge means a monthly charge, paid annually, beginning with the submission of an application for sewer service, to reserve capacity at the board of county commissioners' sewer facilities in the amount requested by the application. The sewer capacity reservation charge shall be the amount set in the rate resolution.

Sewer permit means a permit issued under this division to authorize an applicant, upon payment of the connection fee, to connect and receive sewer service from the county utility system. The permit shall be required for any single or multifamily residence, mobile home park, condominium, subdivision, planned unit development, any other residential development, and any commercial development to connect and receive sewer service from the county utility system.

Sewer service means the removal and disposal of sewage.

(Ord. No. 83-10, § 1(1), 5-5-83; Ord. No. 85-36, § 1, 11-5-85; Ord. No. 2018-24, § 26, 10-9-18)

Cross reference

Definitions generally, § 1-2.