<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 16-97. - Definitions.</div>
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               The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the
               meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates
               a different meaning:
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               <span class="ital">Domestic septage</span> means either liquid or solid material removed from a septic tank, cesspool, portable
               toilet, type III marine sanitation device, or similar treatment works receiving only
               domestic sewage. The term "domestic septage" does not include liquid or solid material
               removed from a septic tank, cesspool, or similar treatment works receiving either
               commercial wastewater or industrial wastewater and does not include grease removed
               from a grease trap at a restaurant.
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               <span class="ital">Health department</span> means the county health department as authorized to be organized under state law.
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               <span class="ital">Industrial or commercial septage</span> means material pumped from septic tanks or other devices used in the collection,
               pretreatment, or treatment of any water-carried waste resulting from any process of
               industry, manufacture, trade, or business where the design disposal of the wastewater
               is subsurface. Domestic septage mixed with any industrial or commercial septage is
               considered industrial or commercial septage.
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               <span class="ital">Owner/operator</span> means the individual who owns or is responsible for management and/or day-to-day
               operations of the septage management firm.
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               <span class="ital">Septage</span> means a solid waste that is a fluid mixture of untreated and partially treated sewage
               solids, liquids, and sludge of human or domestic origin which is removed from septic
               tanks; also septage as defined in G.S. 130A-290(a)(32); and includes washings from
               the interior of septage handling containers, including pumper trucks.
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               <span class="ital">Septage management firm</span> means a person involved in the activity of pumping, transporting, storing, treating
               or disposing of septage. The term does not include public or community sanitary sewer
               systems that treat or dispose of septage. The owner/operator shall be responsible
               for ensuring the firm's compliance with all statutory and regulatory requirements.
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               (Code 1995, Â§ 115.02; Ord. No. 2019-04, 10-21-2019)
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            <p class="refcross0" block_type="hang"><b>Cross referenceâ€” </b>
               Definitions generally, <a href="" data-chunk-id="COOR_CH1GEPR_S1-2DERUCO" class="section-link" data-product-id="13891">Â§ 1-2</a>.
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