1116                             Laws of Maryland                      [Ch. 501

nature, including various devices for the treatment of such 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    "Department" means the State Department of Health.

5    "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.

6    "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.

7    "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.

8    "County" means any of the twenty-three counties or Baltimore
City.

9    "Potable water" means water free from impurities in amounts
sufficient to cause disease or harmful physiological effects with the
bacteriological and chemical quality conforming to applicable stand-
ards of the Department.

10    "Subdivision" means the division of a single tract, tracts or
other parcels of land, or a part thereof, into two or more lots, for the
purpose, whether immediate or future, of sale or of building develop-
ment, and shall also include changes in street lines or lot lines,
provided, however, that divisions of land for agriculture purposes into
parcels of more than 3 acres, not involving any new street or ease-
ment of access, shall not be included within the meaning of
"subdivision."

11    "Approving authority" means one or more officials, agents, or
agencies of local government designated by the local governing body
or specified by other provisions of this section to take certain actions
as a part of implementing this section.

12    "Solid Wastes" means LITTER AND all refuse materials,
other than gaseous and liquid wastes, from all public and private
establishments and residences, INCLUDING SHOPPING CENTERS.

13    "Solid Waste Disposal System" means any system, whether
publicly or privately owned, which provides scheduled or systematic
collection of solid wastes and their transportation to and treatment
or other disposition at a solid waste acceptance facility. A solid waste
disposal system includes all solid waste acceptance facilities used in
connection with the system.

14    "Solid Waste Acceptance Facility" means any sanitary land-
fill, incinerator, transfer station or any other type plant the primary
purpose of which is for the disposal, treatment or processing of
solid wastes.