Code of Maryland Regulations › Title 26 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT › Part 1 - SUBTITLES 01-07 › Subtitle 04 - REGULATION OF WATER SUPPLY, SEWAGE DISPOSAL, AND SOLID WASTE › Chapter 26.04.03 - Water Supply and Sewerage Systems in the Subdivision of Land in MD › Section 26.04.03.01-1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 14, July 12, 2024
A. In this chapter,
				  the following terms have the meanings indicated.
B. Terms Defined.
(1) "Approving Authority" means the Secretary
				  of the Environment or his designee.
(2) "Community sewerage system" means any
				  system, whether publicly or privately owned, serving two or more individual
				  lots for the collection and disposal of sewage or industrial wastes of a liquid
				  nature, including various devices for the treatment of the sewage and
				  industrial wastes.
(3) "Community
				  water supply system" means a source of water and a distribution system,
				  including treatment facilities and storage facilities, whether publicly or
				  privately owned, serving two or more individual lots.
(4) "County plan" means a comprehensive plan
				  and all amendments and revisions of it for the provision of adequate water
				  supply systems and sewerage and solid waste disposal systems and solid waste
				  acceptance facilities throughout the county to include all towns, municipal
				  corporations, and sanitary districts in it.
(5) "Developer or subdivider" means a person,
				  persons, partnership, firm, corporation, or cooperative enterprise undertaking
				  or participating in the development of a subdivision.
(6) "Fifty-year flood plain" means that area
				  which would be inundated by storm water runoff equivalent to that which would
				  occur with a rainfall of 50-year frequency, and is designated in the soil
				  survey for a particular jurisdiction and to include the additional drainage
				  which would accumulate from developed areas above the site under
				  consideration.
(7) "Individual
				  sewerage system" means a single system of sewers and piping, treatment tanks,
				  or other facilities serving only a single lot and disposing of sewage or
				  individual wastes of a liquid nature, in whole or in part, on or in the soil of
				  the property, into any waters of this State, or by other methods.
(8) "Individual water supply system" means a
				  single system of piping, pumps, tanks, or other facilities utilizing a source
				  of ground or surface water to supply only a single lot.
(9) "Lot" means a part of a subdivision or a
				  parcel of land used as a building site or intended to be used for building
				  purposes, whether immediate or future, which would not be further
				  subdivided.
(10) "Lot area" means
				  the total usable area which is included within the rear, side, and front lot
				  lines but to exclude those areas:
(a) Covered
				  by mean high tide;
(b) In an
				  existing or proposed public road; and
(c) Having land sloped exceeding 25 percent
				  and areas located within the 50-year flood plain.
(11) "Lot width" means the horizontal
				  distance between the side boundaries of the lot as measured at the:
(a) Line which forms the roadside boundary of
				  the lot;
(b) Building setback line;
				  or
(c) Sewage disposal area, if a
				  minimum 20-foot wide area extending from the roadway to the individual water
				  supply and sewage disposal area is delineated for access to those
				  systems.
(12) "Minimum
				  ownership" means the minimum ownership area which may be required to be titled
				  and recorded in the name of a person or persons, partnership, firm,
				  corporation, or cooperative enterprise when community water or sewerage systems
				  are not available. More than one lot may be included in the minimum ownership
				  area.
(13) "Preliminary plan" means
				  a drawing of a proposed subdivision containing information as required by these
				  regulations for review by the Approving Authority.
(14) "Record plat" means a completed drawing
				  of the subdivision which contains all pertinent information required by these
				  regulations and any other data necessary for recording plats.
(15) "Soil survey" means the scientific
				  inventory consisting of soil maps, soil unit descriptions, classification in
				  the National System, and interpretations for use, as conducted by the National
				  Cooperative Soil Survey by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Soil
				  Conservation Service, in cooperation with the Maryland Agricultural Experiment
				  Station.
(16) "Subdivision" means
				  the division of a single tract, tracts, or other parcels of land, or a part of
				  it, into two or more lots, for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of
				  sale or of building development. Subdivision includes a change in street lines
				  or lot lines, unless the Approving Authority determines that the change will
				  not adversely affect the safety and adequacy of well sites or sewage disposal
				  areas of the subject lot or adjacent lots. However, division of land for
				  agricultural purposes into parcels of more than 3 acres, not involving any new
				  street or easement of access, may not be included within the meaning of
				  "subdivision".