Section 9-102 Definition, "Sewer."

City Charter Section

As used in this Charter, "sewer" includes all trunks, mains and extensions thereof, pipes, ducts, laterals, branches, manholes, lampholes, catch-basins, pumping stations and appurtenances, ditches, canals, ducts, aqueducts, gates and all other apparatus, structures and devices which the council finds reasonably necessary or proper for the disposal of sanitary sewage, or for drainage including storm water drainage, and also the relaying, repairing, reconstruction or renewal thereof. The term includes widening, deepening, straightening and diverting channels of streams, improving water fronts, filling or grading lakes, ponds or other waters and increasing or diminishing the flow of waters in natural or artificial channels, and other acts and things found necessary or appropriate for sewerage, drainage and proper disposal thereof. Use of the term "sewer" shall not require that all purposes set forth above be handled by a single facility, and construction and use of a sewer may be limited to any one or any combination of said purposes. [June 4, 1917, new sec. 275c; 1928 pub., sec. 275c; 1942 recod., sec. 9-503; rev. Nov. 8, 1966.]

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