CODE OF VIRGINIA

DEFINITIONS (§ 21-142)

Whenever used or referred to in this chapter, unless a different meaning clearly
appears from the context:

   (1.  The term “district” means a sanitation district created and
   existing pursuant to §§ 21-145 to 21-153 or heretofore or hereafter created
   by a special act of the General Assembly for the purpose of taking advantage
   of the provisions of this chapter;

   (2.  The term “commission,” except where the context requires
   reference to the board or commission mentioned and provided for in § 21-157,
   means the body corporate and politic comprising a district and its inhabitants
   created and 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 relation to a commission, means the sewers,
   conduits, pipelines pumping and ventilating stations, treatment plants and
   works, and other plants, structures, boats, conveyances and other real and
   personal property operated by the commission for the purposes of the
   commission;

   (5.  The term “tidal waters of the district” means the waters
   within the district affected by the ebb and flow of the tide and also, in the
   event that the commission shall, pursuant to § 21-216, enter into any
   contract or agreement with any county, city or town in whole or in part
   outside of the district, and for so long as such contract or agreement shall
   remain in force, the waters within such county, city or town, which are
   affected by the ebb and flow of the tide, and the waters within one mile of
   such county, city or town which are affected by the ebb and flow of the tide
   are not included within the boundaries of any other county, city or town, or
   within the boundaries of any other sanitation district;

   (6.  The term “industrial wastes” means liquid or other wastes
   resulting from any processes of industry, manufacture, trade or business or
   from the development of any natural resource;

   (7.  The term “sewage” means the water-carried wastes created in
   and carried, or to be carried, away from residences, hotels, schools,
   hospitals, industrial establishments, commercial establishments or any other
   private or public building, together with such surface or ground water and
   industrial wastes as may be present;

   (8.  The term “pollution” means the condition of water resulting
   from any of the 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,
      or fish or shellfish propagation, or aquatic animals, or plant life in said
      water;

      (f.  Rendering such water unfit for commercial use;

      (g.  Rendering such water unclean or impure to such an extent that fish or
      shellfish 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, improve and repair;

   (11.  The term “person” includes an individual, partnership,
   association, or corporation;

   (12.  The term “governing body” shall mean the board of
   supervisors, board of county commissioners, council or other local legislative
   body, board, commission, or other legislative authority having charge of the
   finances of any county, city or town;

   (13.  The term “town” means an incorporated town;

   (14.  The term “county” means a county exclusive of that portion
   thereof lying within the boundaries of an incorporated town.

HISTORY: 1938, p. 510; 1942, p. 598; Michie Code 1942, § 1560ii.