Delaware § 6701 - Definitions.

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§ 6701. Definitions.

As used in this chapter, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context:

(1) “County” means Sussex County.

(2) “Revenue bonds” means bonds to the payment of which all or any part of the revenues derived from the operation of any water or sewerage system are pledged in accordance with this chapter.

(3) “Service charges” means rents, rates, fees or other charges charged or collected under § 6709 of this title.

(4) “Sewerage system” means the plants, structures and other real and personal property acquired, constructed or operated or to be acquired, constructed or operated by the County for the collection, treatment, purification or disposal in a sanitary manner of any sewage, liquid or solid wastes, night soil or industrial wastes, garbage and storm water, including sewers, conduits, pipelines, mains, pumping and ventilating stations, sewage treatment or disposal system, plants and works, connections and outfalls, and other plants, structures, boats, conveyances, and other real and personal property, and rights therein, appurtenances necessary or useful and convenient for such purposes.

(5) “Water system” means all real and personal property necessary or useful in the collection, acquisition, treatment, purification, and distribution of water, together with any principal or ancillary rights appurtenant thereto.

9 Del. C. 1953, §  6701;  55 Del. Laws, c. 263.; 

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