§ 8-53. Definitions.

Accidental discharge means a discharge prohibited by this article which occur by chance and without planning or thought prior to occurrence.

Best management practice (BMP) means schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, general good house-keeping practices, pollution prevention and educational practices, maintenance procedures, and other management practices to prevent or reduce the discharge of pollutants directly or indirectly to stormwater, receiving waters, or stormwater conveyance systems. BMPs also include treatment practices, operating procedures, and practices to control site runoff, spillage or leaks, sludge of water disposal, or drainage from raw materials storage, as established by the County.

Clean Water Act means the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.), and any subsequent amendments thereto.

Construction activity means activities subject to the Land Development Code which shall apply to the land use, development, construction, addition, alteration, moving, repair, and occupation of any building, structure, parcel of land or sign unless otherwise expressly excepted or exempted herein. Promote and fulfill the intent and requirements of Sections 163.3201 and 163.3202, Florida Statutes.

Illicit discharge means any direct or indirect non-stormwater discharge to Okaloosa County's separate storm sewer system, and a storm drain with measurable flow during dry weather, except as exempted by this article.

Illegal connection means either of the following:

(1)

Any pipe, open channel, drain or conveyance, whether on the surface or subsurface, which allows an illicit discharge to enter the storm drain system including but not limited to any conveyances which allow any non-stormwater discharge including, sewage, process wastewater, and wash water to enter the storm drain system, regardless of whether such pipe, open channel, drain or conveyance has been previously allowed, permitted, or approved by an authorized enforcement agency; or

(2)

Any pipe, open channel, drain or conveyance connected to Okaloosa County's separate storm sewer system which has not been documented in plans, maps, or equivalent records and approved by an authorized enforcement agency.

Industrial activity means activities subject to NPDES industrial permits.

Land development code (the code) is intended to implement the goals, objectives, and policies of the Okaloosa County Comprehensive Plan by classifying and regulating the use and development of lands and waters in unincorporated Okaloosa County. This Code is intended to promote the public health, safety, comfort, convenience, prosperity, and general welfare of residents, landowners, and business enterprise within the county; and to protect and preserve the natural, cultural, historic, and aesthetic resources.

Municipal separate storm sewer system (MS4) means any facility designed or used for collecting and/or conveying stormwater, including but not limited to any roads with drainage systems, highways, Okaloosa County streets, curbs, gutters, inlets, catch basins, piped storm drains, pumping facilities, structural stormwater controls, ditches, swales, natural and man-made or altered drainage channels, reservoirs, and other drainage structures, and which is:

(1)

Owned or maintained by Okaloosa County;

(2)

Not a combined sewer; and

(3)

Not part of a privately owned stormwater treatment facility.

National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Storm Water Discharge Permit means a permit issued by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection Agency, or by a State under authority delegated pursuant to 33 USC § 1342(b), that authorizes the discharge of pollutants to waters of the United States, whether the permit is applicable on an individual, group, or general area-wide basis.

Non-stormwater discharge means any discharge to the storm drainage system that is not composed entirely of stormwater.

Person means, except to the extent exempted from this article, any individual, partnership, firm, association, joint venture, public or private corporation, trust, estate, commission, board, public or private institution, utility, cooperative, city, county or other political subdivision of the state, any interstate body or other legal entity.

Pollutant means anything which causes or contributes to pollution. Pollutants may include, but are not limited to: paints, varnishes, and solvents; petroleum hydrocarbons; automotive fluids; cooking grease, detergents (biodegradable or otherwise) degreasers, cleaning chemicals, non-hazardous liquid and solid wastes and yard wastes; refuse, rubbish, garbage, litter, or other discarded or abandoned objects and accumulations, so that same may cause or contribute to pollution; floatables; pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers; liquid and solid wastes; sewage, fecal coliform and pathogens; dissolved and particulate metals; animal wastes; wastes and residues that result from constructing a building or structure; concrete and cement; and noxious or offensive matter of any kind.

Pollution means the unregulated, unmitigated, or illegal introduction of pollutants into the natural or manmade environment that degrades the health, stability, or productivity of the natural or manmade system into which such pollutants are introduced.

Premises means any building, lot, parcel of land, or portion of land whether improved or unimproved including adjacent sidewalks and parking lots.

State waters means any and all rivers, streams, creeks, branches, lakes, reservoirs, ponds, drainage systems, springs, wells, and other bodies of surface and subsurface water, natural or artificial, lying within or forming a part of the boundaries of the State of Florida which are not entirely confined and retained completely upon the property of a single person.

Storm drainage system means publicly-owned facilities by which stormwater is collected and/or conveyed, including but not limited to: any roads with drainage systems, streets, gutters, curbs, inlets, piped storm drains, pumping facilities, retention and detention basins, natural and human-made or altered drainage channels, reservoirs, and other drainage structures.

Stormwater control structure means a structural stormwater management facility, structure, or device that controls stormwater runoff and changes the characteristics of that runoff including, but not limited to, the quantity and quality, the rate of release or the velocity of flow.

Stormwater management plan means a document which describes the best management practices and activities to be implemented by a person or business to identify sources of pollution or contamination at a site and the actions to eliminate or reduce pollutant discharges to stormwater, stormwater conveyance systems, and/or receiving waters to the maximum extent practicable. This may include, but is not limited to, a design narrative and engineered documents.

Stormwater runoff or stormwater means any surface flow, runoff, and drainage consisting entirely of water from any form of natural precipitation.

(Ord. No. 11-13, § 3, 9-20-11)