§ 6-4002 — DEFINITIONS

Sec. 6-4002. - DEFINITIONS.

All definitions as used in this chapter, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, shall have the meaning given herein: Customer or consumer means the person or entity to which a bill for stormwater service charges is sent. Developed land means real property that contains impervious surfaces, and includes improved land without structures and land on which improvements are under construction. Dwelling unit means one (1) or more rooms physically arranged to create an housekeeping establishment with separate facilities for cooking, sleeping and toilet for occupancy by one (1) or more persons. Impervious surface means any surface which because of its material composition or compacted nature impedes or prevents natural infiltration of stormwater into the soil. Impervious surfaces include, but are not limited to, roofs, roof extensions, patios, balconies, decks, including wooden slatted decks, athletic courts, swimming pools, excluding the water area of swimming pools, streets, parking areas, driveways, sidewalks, and any concrete, stone, brick, asphalt, or compacted gravel surfaces. Ungraveled natural footpaths, water surfaces of lakes streams and swimming pools and drain fields are not impervious surfaces. Other residential and nonresidential developed land means any individual lot or parcel of developed land that is not single-family developed land. It includes, but is not limited to, land upon which there are residential structures that contain more than one (1) dwelling unit, such as multi-family dwellings (duplexes and greater), manufactured home park, as defined in Part 10, §10-2002, condominiums, apartments, boarding houses, rooming houses, fraternity houses, sorority houses, dormitories, churches; institutional buildings, whether public or private; hospitals, rest homes, public and private schools, colleges, and universities, commercial, office, hotels and motels, and industrial buildings, storage areas, parking lots and land containing improvements under construction or impervious surfaces. Property owner or owner means the owner of a real property as shown on the Wake County tax records. Single-family equivalent unit (SFEU) is the median of impervious surface on a single-family (detached home) developed land in the City as established by City Council resolution. Single-family developed land means an individual lot or parcel of land developed with only one (1) single-family (attached [townhome] or detached) dwelling unit, one (1) manufactured home, or one (1) mobile home, and the ownership interest of the land and of the dwelling unit are united and identical. Single-family developed land shall not include structures used primarily for nonresidential purposes or other residential and nonresidential developed property. Stormwater management service charge is the charge to provide stormwater services to developed property. The charge is based upon the single-family equivalent unit (SFEU) as calculated for that property. Stormwater management system or system means the system of natural and constructed devices for collecting and transporting stormwater. It includes, but is not limited to, structural drainage systems such as open swales and ditches, catch basins, pipes, inlets, storm sewers, drains, culverts, junction boxes, and other stormwater management facilities that affect the quality and quantity of stormwater located within dedicated public street rights-of-way and City of Raleigh permanent drainage easements accepted by the City and all natural stormwater drainage systems. Stormwater management utility funds mean the stormwater management service charges and the interest generated by those charges. Stormwater services means City stormwater management programs designed to protect water quality by controlling the level of pollutants in, and the quantity and flow of, stormwater and City service of structural and natural stormwater and drainage systems of all types. Stormwater services include any cost necessary to assure that all aspects of stormwater quality and quantity are managed in accordance with federal and State laws, regulations and rules, and costs related to the mapping, planning, construction, operation, maintenance, inspection, management and regulation of the stormwater management system and the regulation of impervious surface and stormwater.

(Ord. No. 2003-537, §3, 11-5-03; Ord. No. 2004-571-TC-243, §§1, 2, 2-17-04)