24-2021 - Amend Part 9 to establish Impervious Surface Fee

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Section 3. That Section 902.02 Definitions, of the Lakewood Codified Ordinances, currently reading as follows: 902.02 DEFINITIONS. Certain terms used in this chapter shall have the meanings given them in this section unless a different meaning is indicated by the context in which the particular term is used. (a) "Capital charge" means a fee imposed by Section 915.03 hereof upon all units of service of the wastewater disposal system in a total amount sufficient to pay the costs of principal and of interest obligations issued to finance acquisition and construction of the wastewater disposal system. (b) "Capital costs" means payments of principal and of interest or obligations issued to finance the costs of acquisition and construction of the wastewater disposal system. (c) "Connection" means a residential, commercial or industrial establishment served by a water or wastewater meter, public or private, the metered flow of which is subsequently discharged to the wastewater disposal system. Establishments with more than one meter, the metered flow of which is subsequently discharged to the wastewater disposal system, are hereby determined to have one connection for each such meter. (d) "Commercial unit of service" means, for purposes of system charges, any aggregation of space or area occupied for a distinct purpose such as retail store, office, laundry, restaurant or other like units, which is equipped with one or more water fixtures draining into the wastewater disposal system, separate and distinct from other units of service. In office buildings or other premises containing more than one tenant, only those tenants shall be classified as users of service who occupy space which are equipped with a distinct opening or fixture or set of fixtures for the use of water separately from other tenants and with waste draining into the wastewater disposal system. (e) "Commercial wastewater" means normal domestic wastewater discharged by a nonresident or nonindustrial unit of service into the wastewater disposal system. (f) "Industrial unit of service" means, for purposes of system charges, any aggregation of space or area occupied for a distinct purpose such as manufacturing which results in the discharge of industrial wastewater as defined in Section 915.02(h) into the wastewater disposal system. (g) "Industrial unit of service" means, for the purposes of Industrial Cost Recovery, any nongovernmental user of the wastewater disposal system which discharges industrial wastewater and which is identified in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1972, Office of Management and Budget, as amended and supplemented under the following divisions as contained therein: (1) Division A. Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing. (2) Division B . Mining. (3) Division D. Manufacturing. (4) Division E. Transportation, Communications, Electric, Gas and Sanitary Services. (5) Division I. Services. (h) "Industrial wastewater" means trade, process or nondomestic waste discharged from a unit of service which exceeds twenty-five gallons per employee per day or whose wastewater characteristics exceed 250 milligrams per liter BOD5, 200 milligrams per liter total suspended solids or whose wastewater contains toxic pollutants or poisonous solids, liquids or gasses in sufficient quantity to contaminate the sludge, to interfere with any sewage treatment process or which constitutes a hazard to humans or animals, creates a public nuisance or creates a hazard to the receiving waters of the wastewater disposal system. (i) "General Property Tax" means that tax used to partially defray capital costs. 0) "Normal domestic wastewater" means wastewater characterized by wastes created in the preparation of foods, bathing, laundry facilities and sanitary facilities, i.e., resulting from normal living functions. (k) "Operation and maintenance costs" means the current, reasonable and necessary costs of operation and maintenance of the wastewater disposal system, paid or incurred, determined in accordance with general accepted accounting principles, including replacement costs, but excluding payments of principal of and interest on obligations issued to finance the cost of acquisition and construction of the wastewater disposal system.