21-225 - Definitions. - Virginia Statutes

§ 21-225. Definitions.

Wherever 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 §§ 21-228 to 21-236 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 § 21-238, means thebody corporate or politic comprising a district and its inhabitants createdand existing pursuant to § 21-237;

(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 "waters of the district" means all well defined rivers, creeksor other watercourses or streams within the district, provided they are not"tidal waters of the district" as that term is defined in the sanitationdistricts law of 1938;

(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 unfit for commercial use;

(9) The term "construct" includes construct, reconstruct, replace, improveand repair;

(10) The term "person" includes an individual, partnership, association, orcorporation;

(11) 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;

(12) The term "town" means an incorporated town;

(13) The term "county" means a county exclusive of that portion thereoflying within the boundaries of an incorporated town.

(1946, p. 347; Michie Suppl. 1946, § 1560iii2.)