Florida Administrative Code › 40 - WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICTS › 40E - South Florida Water Management District › Chapter 40E-24 - MANDATORY YEAR-ROUND LANDSCAPE IRRIGATION MEASURES CONSERVATION MEASURES › Section 40E-24.101 - Definitions

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
When used in this chapter:
(1) "Address" means the "house number" (a
				numeric or alphanumeric designation) that, together with the street name,
				describes the physical location of a specific property. This includes "rural
				route" numbers but excludes post office box numbers. If a lot number in a
				mobile home park or similar community is used by the U.S. Postal Service to
				determine a delivery location, the lot number shall be the property's address.
				If a lot number in a mobile home park or similar residential community is not
				used by the U.S. Postal Service (e.g., the park manager sorts incoming mail
				delivered to the community's address), then the community's main address shall
				be the property's address. If a property has no address it shall be considered
				"even-numbered".
(2) "Athletic play
				area" means all golf course fairways, tees, roughs, and greens, and other
				athletic play surfaces; including, football, baseball, soccer, polo, tennis and
				lawn bowling fields, and rodeo, equestrian and livestock arenas.
(3) "Consumptive Use Permit (CUP)" means a
				permit issued pursuant to Chapter 40E-2, F.A.C., authorizing the consumptive
				use of water.
(4) "Even Numbered
				Address" means an address, ending in the numbers 0, 2, 4, 6, 8 or rights-of-way
				or other locations with no address, or the letters A-M.
(5) "Existing landscaping" means any
				landscaping which has been planted and in the ground for more than ninety (90)
				days.
(6) "Landscaping" means
				shrubbery, trees, lawns, sod, grass, ground covers, plants, vines, ornamental
				gardens, and such other flora, not intended for resale, which are situated in
				such diverse locations as residential landscapes, recreation areas, cemeteries,
				public, commercial, and industrial establishments, public medians, and
				rights-of-way except athletic play areas as defined in subsection
				 40E-24.101(2),
				F.A.C.
(7) "Low Volume Hand
				Watering" means the watering of landscape by one person, with one hose fitted
				with a self-canceling or automatic shutoff nozzle.
(8) "Low Volume Irrigation" means the use of
				equipment and devices specifically designed to allow the volume of water
				delivered to be limited to a level consistent with the water requirement of the
				plant being irrigated and to allow that water to be placed with a high degree
				of efficiency in the root zone of the plant. The term also includes water used
				in mist houses and similar establishments for plant propagation. Overhead
				irrigation and flood irrigation are not included.
(9) "Landscape Irrigation" means the outside
				watering of shrubbery, trees, lawns, sod, grass, ground covers, plants, vines,
				ornamental gardens, and such other flora, not intended for resale, which are
				planted and are situated in such diverse locations as residential landscapes,
				recreation areas, cemeteries, public, commercial, and industrial
				establishments, public medians, and rights-of-way except athletic play areas as
				defined in subsection
				 40E-24.101(2),
				F.A.C.
(10) "Micro-irrigation"
				means the application of small quantities of water on or below the soil surface
				as drops or tiny streams of spray through emitter or applicators placed along a
				water delivery line. Micro-irrigation includes a number of methods or concepts
				such as bubbler, drip, trickle, mist or microspray, and subsurface
				irrigation.
(11) "New landscaping"
				means any landscaping which has been planted and in the ground for ninety (90)
				days or less.
(12) "Odd Numbered
				Address" means an address ending in the numbers 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 or the letters
				N-Z.
(13) "Reclaimed Water" means
				wastewater that has received at least secondary treatment and basic
				disinfection and is reused after flowing out of a wastewater treatment facility
				as defined by Rule  62-40.210, F.A.C.
(14) "User" means any person, individual,
				firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation,
				company, agent, employee or other legal entity whether natural or artificial,
				the United States of America, and the State and all political subdivisions,
				regions, districts, municipalities, and public agencies thereof, which directly
				or indirectly takes water from the water resource, including uses from private
				or public utility systems, uses under water use permits issued pursuant to
				Chapter 40E-2, F.A.C., or uses from individual wells or pumps.
(15) "Wasteful and unnecessary" means
				allowing water to be dispersed without any practical purpose to the water use;
				for example, excessive landscape irrigation, leaving an unattended hose on a
				driveway with water flowing, allowing water to be dispersed in a grossly
				inefficient manner, regardless of the type of water use; for example, allowing
				landscape irrigation water to unnecessarily fall onto pavement, sidewalks and
				other impervious surfaces; allowing water flow through a broken or
				malfunctioning water delivery or landscape irrigation
				system.
Rulemaking Authority
					 373.044,
					 373.113,
					 373.171 FS. Law Implemented
					 373.042,
					 373.0421,
					 373.171,
					 373.219,
					 373.223,
					 373.227
					 FS.
New 6-12-03, Amended 3-15-10,
					 7-14-14.