The following terms are defined in the Urban Councils Act [Chapter 214] in the manner here indicated, and such terms have the meaning so indicated throughout these by-laws, whether these by laws are adopted by an urban council or rural council
“combined private sewer” means a sewer, exclusive of the soil pipes, waste pipes and vent pipes, for the purpose of conveying to a public sewer or a conserving tank or other receptacle the sewage from two or ore private, and includes all other things necessary in connection therewith;
“conserving tank” means any covered tank without overflow which
- is used for the reception and temporary retention of sewage; and
- requires empting at intervals;
“construction”, in relation to a building, includes the alteration, subdivision, conversion or reconstruction of, or the addition to, a building;
“private drain” means a conduit for the conveyance of storm water or any surface, subsoil or spring water from one premise to a public drain:
“private sewer” means a sewer, exclusive of waste pipes, soil pipes and vent pipes, for the purpose of conveying to a combined private sewer, a public sewer of conserving tank or other receptacle the sewage from one premise, and includes all other things necessary in connection therewith;
“public drain” means a conduit vested in or under the control of or used by a municipality or town for the conveyance of storm water or any surface, subsoil or spring water, and includes all other things necessary in connection therewith;
“public sewer” means a sewer vested in or under the control of a municipality or town into which is discharged or intended to be discharged the sewage from private sewers or combined private sewers, and includes pipes, manholes, chambers, ventilation shafts, ejectors , sluices and all other things necessary in connection therewith;
“sanitary fitting” means any water-closet, urinal, bidet, slop-sink, bath, wash basin, sink, shower or other fitting of like a nature from which soil water or waste water is disposed of into a soil-pipe or waste pipe, as the case may be:
“sewage” includes trade effluent
‘sewage works” includes reservoirs, tanks, strainers, filter-beds, ponds, engines, pumps, machinery, buildings, lands and all other works and things except public sewers which are necessary for the treatment and disposal of sewage;
“storm water” means all flow of water directly due to rainfall before such water joins a public stream;
“trade effluent” means any liquid, with or without particles of matter suspended therein, which is produced either wholly or in part or results from or has been or was intended to be used in any trade or business or commercial, manufacturing or industrial process;
“water main” includes any conduit, pipeline, valve, valve-chamber, meter, meter-chamber or house, break-pressure tank, scour pipe or scour-chamber which
- in vested in, under the control of or used by a municipality or town; and
- is used for the conveyances and control of water supplied for the municipality or town;
and includes all other things necessary in connexion therewith;