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 Administrative Code
 Title 12. PUBLIC WORKS AND UTILITIES
 Chapter 12.14. WATER CONSERVATION

  § 12.14.030. Definitions.  

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  • The following words and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them:

    City means the City of Reno, a municipal corporation of the State of Nevada.

    Customer refers to any person who is an owner, occupant or user of real property to which water is supplied by a public water system. The term "customer" shall also refer to any person who uses water supplied by a public water system, or to any person who is billed for the supply of water from a public water system, or to any person who is responsible for or otherwise has the right or permission to utilize the supply of water provided by a public water system.

    Department. Unless specified otherwise in this chapter, "department" refers to the department of maintenance and engineering of the City of Reno, which department is designated as the official governmental agency responsible for coordinating and supervising the enforcement of this chapter.

    Excessive, as used in relation to the use, expenditure or application of water that is the subject of this chapter, means any immoderate or unreasonable consumption of water which results in water:

    (1)

    Running to waste into any street, road, parking lot, gutter, drainway, swale, sewage system, or any place for the disposal of water, in a steady stream or flow; or

    (2)

    In the course of running to waste, collecting in pools or in any depressed area to a depth of one inch or more; or

    (3)

    Using, expending or applying the water supply provided by any public water system in a manner contrary to any water conservation regulation, policy, rule, condition, directive, or request that has been issued to the customers of the public water system in question or that has been given general public notice by the public water system in question; or

    (4)

    Any combination of the above subparts of this definition.

    Hand watering refers to the use, expenditure, or application of water supplied to a customer or any person through a hose connected to a piping system which such hose is hand-held and such water is used for any exterior purposes or is otherwise expended outside any dwelling, building or structure.

    Irrigate means to apply or to expend water onto land, whether by channels, by flooding, by sprinkling, or by any other means whatsoever, except handwatering. This term shall also refer to any act of irrigation.

    Person means any natural person, any group of persons, any firm, partnership, association, corporation, company, or any other organization or entity that is not a public utility regulated by the Public Service Commission of Nevada.

    Public water system refers to any publicly or privately owned network of pipes, conduits, wells, machinery, reservoirs, holding tanks and any other components, including any combination thereof, which supplies water to customers who are charged a fee of any kind or nature for such service or which is designed to supply water or is capable of supplying water to customers for a fee at two or more dwellings, buildings, or lots. Within the meaning of this chapter, a public water system includes any such system operated under the regulatory authority of the Nevada Public Service Commission and any other such system.

    Running to waste means the application, expenditure or use of water in such a way that the water can be observed collecting in pools or in any depressed area, or flowing or running across the ground or any surface area in a manner that is excessive for the use or nonuse to which the water is being put.

    Wastage of water refers to any act of a customer involving the use, application, or expenditure of water supplied from a public water system that results in such water running to waste. However, nothing contained in this term may be construed so as to prohibit any person having a direct legal right or owning any appropriated water right from using water in accordance with the express terms and conditions of any permit to use or appropriate water issued under authority of the state engineer, or pursuant to any order or directive of any federal water master having authority in the city, or pursuant to any lawful court order or decree.

    Wastewater means treated effluent from any sewage treatment plant operated by a governmental entity, or effluent emitted from an individual sewage disposal system approved by a governmental entity.

    Water refers to all water, except wastewater, supplied from a public water system to any customer who uses water.

(Code 1966, § 11.64.020; Ord. No. 3707, § 1, 8-1-88; Ord. No. 3735, § 1, 9-26-88; Ord. No. 4068, § 1, 3-26-91; Ord. No. 4613, § 1, 4-9-96)

Cross reference

Definitions generally, § 1.01.020.