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244 BB. CC. DD. 1. Limited Access Highway - a divided arterial highway with full or partial control of access and generally with grade separations at major intersections. 2. Arterial Roads - a general term denoting a highway primarily for through traffic, carrying heavy loads and large volumes of traffic usually on a continuous route. They are not intended to serve the abutting property and should provide controlled access. 3. Collector Roads - a street that carries traffic from local streets to arterial streets; including: a. Local Residential Streets - generally serve to provide street access to 100 or fewer dwellings. b. Cul-de-sacs - a street serving 7 to 25 lots or units, having an outlet at one end and the other end permanently closed with facilities permitting vehicles to turn around. 5. Marginal Access Street - a local or collector street which parallels and is immediately adjacent to an arterial road, and which provides access to abutting property and protection from through traffic. Sewage - the waste water and its contents from kitchen, bathroom, toilet, lavatory and laundry of any residence, business establishment, industrial plant, institution, or any public building. 1. Central Sewage Disposal System - A sewerage system serving two (2) or more dwelling units and approved by the Cabarrus County Health Department and the North Carolina Department of Environmental Health and Natural Resources which provides a collection network and disposal system and central sewage treatment facility for a single development, community, or region. The State of North Carolina considers central sewage disposal systems to be "Public Systems". For the purposes of these regulations the following distinctions are made: a. "Public Sewage Disposal System" shall mean a single system of sewage collection, treatment, and disposal owned and operated by a sanitary district, a water and sewer authority or district, a county, or municipality or another public utility. b. "Community Sewage Disposal System" shall mean a privately owned central sewage disposal system or a system owned by a community association. 2. On-Site Sewage Disposal System - a septic tank or similar installation on an individual lot which utilizes an aerobic bacteriological process or equally satisfactory process for the elimination of sewage and provides for the proper and safe disposal of the effluent, subject to the approval of health and sanitation officials having jurisdiction. Subdivider - any person, firm or corporation who subdivides or develops any land which is a subdivision as herein defined. Thoroughfare any street designated on the adopted County or Kanlacon Metropolitan Planning Organization Thoroughfare Plan. In the Kanlacon area these streets are designated as major and minor thoroughfares. In the balance of the county these streets are designated as principal and minor arterioles and major and minor collectors. Thoroughfare Plan - the map and attendant documents approved by the Kanlacon MPO member jurisdictions or in the case of the County Thoroughfare Overlay Zone contained in Section 3.11 of the Cabarrus County Zoning Ordinance approved by the Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners. Water System (Public) - shall mean a county, municipal, sanitary district, water and sewer authority or district owned system for the provision to the public of piped potable water for human consumption. Water System (Gommunity) shall mean a privately owned system for the provision to the public of piped potable water which serves 15 or more service connections or which regularly serves 25 or more individuals. For the purposes of regulation of water quality, the state considers these systems to be Public Water Systems". SECTION 2.3 WORD INTERPRETATION A. For the purpose of this ordinance, certain words shall be interpreted as follows: 1. The present tense includes the future tense and future tense includes the present tense. 2. The singular number includes the plural number and the plural number includes the singular number. 3. The words "should" and "may" are permissive.