21-142 - Definitions.
§ 21-142. Definitions.
Whenever used or referred to in this chapter, unless a different meaningclearly appears from the context:
(1) The term "district" means a sanitation district created and existingpursuant to §§ 21-145 to 21-153 or heretofore or hereafter created by aspecial act of the General Assembly for the purpose of taking advantage ofthe provisions of this chapter;
(2) The term "commission," except where the context requires reference tothe board or commission mentioned and provided for in § 21-157, means thebody corporate and politic comprising a district and its inhabitants createdand existing pursuant to § 21-154;
(3) The term "chairman" means the chairman of a commission;
(4) The term "sewage disposal system" or "facilities," used in relationto a commission, means the sewers, conduits, pipelines pumping andventilating stations, treatment plants and works, and other plants,structures, boats, conveyances and other real and personal property operatedby the commission for the purposes of the commission;
(5) The term "tidal waters of the district" means the waters within thedistrict affected by the ebb and flow of the tide and also, in the event thatthe commission shall, pursuant to § 21-216, enter into any contract oragreement with any county, city or town in whole or in part outside of thedistrict, and for so long as such contract or agreement shall remain inforce, the waters within such county, city or town, which are affected by theebb and flow of the tide, and the waters within one mile of such county, cityor town which are affected by the ebb and flow of the tide are not includedwithin the boundaries of any other county, city or town, or within theboundaries of any other sanitation district;
(6) The term "industrial wastes" means liquid or other wastes resultingfrom any processes of industry, manufacture, trade or business or from thedevelopment of any natural resource;
(7) The term "sewage" means the water-carried wastes created in andcarried, or to be carried, away from residences, hotels, schools, hospitals,industrial establishments, commercial establishments or any other private orpublic building, together with such surface or ground water and industrialwastes as may be present;
(8) The term "pollution" means the condition of water resulting from any ofthe following acts:
(a) Unreasonably contaminating such water;
(b) Rendering such water unclean or impure;
(c) Rendering such water directly or indirectly injurious to public health,or unfit for public use;
(d) Rendering such water harmful for cattle, stock or other animals;
(e) Rendering such water deleterious to, or unfit for, fish or shellfish, orfish or shellfish propagation, or aquatic animals, or plant life in saidwater;
(f) Rendering such water unfit for commercial use;
(g) Rendering such water unclean or impure to such an extent that fish orshellfish taken therefrom are unfit for human consumption;
(9) The term "Governor" means the Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia;
(10) The term "construct" includes construct, reconstruct, replace, improveand repair;
(11) The term "person" includes an individual, partnership, association, orcorporation;
(12) The term "governing body" shall mean the board of supervisors, boardof county commissioners, council or other local legislative body, board,commission, or other legislative authority having charge of the finances ofany county, city or town;
(13) The term "town" means an incorporated town;
(14) The term "county" means a county exclusive of that portion thereoflying within the boundaries of an incorporated town.
(1938, p. 510; 1942, p. 598; Michie Code 1942, § 1560ii.)