§ 27-212. Definitions.

As used anywhere in this article, the following terms are defined to mean:

City: The City of Eagle Pass, Texas, as represented by the official acts of the city council and council designated representatives.

Commercial establishment: Any location where a person manufactures, packages, prepares, provides, serves, or makes available any meals, or food for sale, for monetary compensation, or for non-monetary consideration.

EPWWS: Eagle Pass Water Works System.

Fats, oils, or grease: Any animal, vegetable, or mineral fats, oils, or greases and any organic polar compounds derived from animal and/or plant sources that contain multiple carbon chain triglyceride molecules.

FPE or FPEs: A food processing establishment or establishments, which are any commercial establishments in which food for human consumption is manufactured or packaged.

FSE or FSEs: A food service establishment or establishments, which are any commercial establishments that prepare, provide, serve, or make available for human consumption meals.

Generator: A person who causes, creates, generates, stores or otherwise produces liquid waste, including, but not limited to, grease trap waste, fat, oils, grease, or septage as a byproduct of some domestic or nondomestic activity.

Grease trap: A device for collecting, containing, or removing food wastes or fats, oils, or grease from a waste stream before entering the sanitary sewer.

Person: An individual, corporation (including a government corporation), organization, state or federal governmental subdivision or agency, political subdivision of a state, interstate agency or body, business, trust, partnership, association, firm, company, joint stock company, commission, or any other legal entity.

Sanitary sewer: A system of pipes, conduit, and treatment facilities owned and/or operated by the EPWWS which collect, transport, and treat sanitary sewage, and to which storm, surface and ground waters are not intentionally or normally admitted.

(Ord. No. 2014-15, § 1, 9-2-2014)