Laserfiche WebLink
<br />"Professional Engineer" - shall mean a person who, by reason of his <br />special knowledge or use of the mathematical, physical and engineering <br />sciences, and the principles and methods of engineering analysis and design, <br />acquired by engineering education and engineering experience, is qualified to <br />practice engineering and who has been duly registered and licensed by the state <br />board of registration for professional engineers and land surveyors. <br />"Regulations" - the work regulation or these regulations unless others <br />indicated, shall refer to all rules and regulations adopted in this text. <br />"Registered Professional Soil Classifier" - shall mean a person who <br />by reason of his special knowledge of the physical, chemical, and biological <br />sciences applicable to soils as natural bodies and of the methods and principles <br />of soil classification as required by soils education and soil classification <br />experience in the formation, morphology, description, and mapping of soils is <br />qualified to practice soil classifying and who has been duly registered by the <br />State Board of Registration for Professional Soil Classifiers, as per ND Century <br />Code, Chapter 43-36-01 , 2. <br />"Sand" - is a soil texture composed by weight of at least twenty-five percent <br />(25%) of very coarse, coarse, and medium sand varying in size from two (2) to <br />0.25 mm, less than fifty percent (50%) of fine or very fine sand, ranging in size <br />between 0.25 and 0.05 mm and no more than 10 percent (10%) of particles <br />smaller than 0.05 mm. <br />"Septic Tank" - is a water-tight, covered receptacle, designed and <br />constructed to receive the discharge from sewage from a building sewer, <br />separate solids from liquid, digest organic matter, and store solids through a <br />period of detention and allow the clarified liquids to discharge to a soil treatment <br />system. <br />"Setback" - is a separation distance measured horizontally. <br />"Sewage" - is any water-carried domestic, commercial or agricultural waste, <br />exclusive of footing and roof drainage or any residence or industry, agricultural or <br />commercial establishment or other structure, whether treated or untreated, and <br />includes but is not limited to liquid waste produced by bathing, laundry, culinary <br />operations and liquid wastes from toilets and floor drains. <br />"Septic Tank Effluent" - is that liquid which flows from a septic or aerobic <br />tank under normal operation. <br />"Site" - is the proposed on-site sewage treatment system area. <br />"Slope" - is the ratio of vertical rise or fall to horizontal distance. <br />"Soil Boring" - is any type of excavating capable of revealing in detail <br />characteristics of soils penetrated. <br />"Soil Characteristics, Limiting" - are those soil characteristics which <br />preclude the installation of a standard system, including, but not limited to, <br />evidence of seasonal high ground water table or bedrock closer than three (3) <br />feet to the ground surface and percolation rates faster than one-half (1/2) <br />minutes per inch or slower than sixty (60) minutes per inch. <br /> <br />6 <br />