Definitions.
Jacksonville Ordinance Code § 366.104
in effectSec. 366.104. - Definitions.
The following definitions shall apply throughout this Chapter and in any rule adopted pursuant to it unless the context otherwise requires. When not inconsistent with the context, words used in the present tense include the future, words in the plural number include the singular, and words in the singular number include the plural. The word "shall" is always mandatory and not merely directive.
(a) Aquifer means a hydrologic unit which consists of a related group of earth materials or only a part of earth materials, which is saturated with water and capable of transmitting usable quantities of water to wells or springs.
(b) Board means the Environmental Protection Board.
(c) Brown's Dump and Jacksonville Ash Sites areas means those areas assigned U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Site Identification Numbers FLD 980 847 016 (Brown's Dump) and FLSFN0407002 (Jacksonville Ash Sites, i.e., Forest Street Incinerator Site, 5 th & Cleveland Streets Incinerator Site, and Lonnie C. Miller, Jr., Park).
(d) Conservation means actions which result in a reduction of water demand or result in the protection or preservation of the quality of the water supply source.
(e) Contractor means a water well contractor as defined in Rule 62-532.200, F.A.C.
(f) Department means the Neighborhoods Department.
(g) Director means the Director of the Department or his authorized representative who shall be an employee or agent of the City.
(h) Domestic consumption means water used in direct human contact for drinking, cooking, bathing, and cleaning purposes inside a residential or commercial establishment.
(i) Floridan Aquifer means those earth materials first penetrated at varying depths greater than 250 feet (76.2m) below the ground surface in Duval County and that compose one or more of the following stratigraphic formations: limestones of the Ocala Group, Avon Park Limestone, Lake City Limestone or Oldsmar Limestone. The approximate depth to which wells first penetrate the Floridan Aquifers is shown in Water Resources Investigation 77-144 by the United States Geological Survey, 1978, or as revised.
(j) Groundwater means water beneath the surface of the ground, whether or not flowing through known definite channels.
(k) Person has the meaning given to it in Section 2.101(g), Ordinance Code of the City of Jacksonville and in addition includes any officer, employee, agent, department or instrumentality of the Federal Government, any state, municipality, or political subdivision of the State, or of any foreign government.
(l) Potable water means water used for drinking, culinary purposes, personal hygiene or other domestic purposes which is approved as meeting the standards contained in F.A.C. Chs. 64E-8, 62-550, or 62-555.
(m) Public water supply system means any water system meeting the requirements of either F.A.C. Chs. 62-550, 62-555 or 62-560, for "community or non-community" category, or meeting the requirements of Ch. 64E-8, F.A.C., for "other public" category.
(n) SJRWMD means the St. Johns River Water Management District.
(o) Water source heat pumps means single or reverse cycle mechanical devices for heating or cooling which require the use of water as a medium for heat transfer.
(p) Well means a well as defined in F.S. 373.303(7) which is any excavation that is drilled, cored, bored, washed, driven, dug, jetted, or otherwise constructed when the intended use of such excavation is for the location, acquisition, development, or artificial recharge of groundwater. This does not include any well for the purpose of obtaining or prospecting for oil, natural gas, minerals, or products of mining or quarrying; for inserting media to dispose of oil brines or to re-pressure oil-bearing or natural gas-bearing formation; for storing petroleum, natural gas or other products; or for temporary dewatering of subsurface formations for mining, quarrying or construction purposes.
(q) Well construction means all acts necessary to obtain groundwater by wells, including the location, excavation and sealing of the well, but excluding the installation of pumps and pumping equipment.
(Ord. 2008-346-E, § 2; Ord. 2011-732-E; Ord. 2013-209-E, § 40; Ord. 2016-140-E, § 16)
Source: City of Jacksonville, Ordinance Code and Charter and Related Laws (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/fl/jacksonville/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=TITXENAF_CH366GRSUWAREMA_PT1GEPR_S366.104DEFetched: 10/27/2026