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<br />(B) Exemptions. The provisions of this chapter do not apply to: <br /> <br />(1) Installation of fence, sign, telephone and electric poles and other kinds of posts or poles; <br /> <br />(2) Emergency work to protect life, limb or property; or <br /> <br />(3) Tilling, planting or harvesting of agricultural, horticultural or silvicultural (forestry) <br /> <br />crops. <br />(Ord. 79, passed 3-9-2005) <br /> <br />~ 157.06 DEFINITIONS. <br /> <br />(A) When inconsistent with the context, words used in the present tense include the future tense, <br />words in the plural number include the singular number, and words in the singular number include the <br />plural number. The word "shall" is always mandatory and not merely directive. <br /> <br />(B) For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly <br />indicates or requires a different meaning. <br /> <br />APPLICANT. Any person who wishes to obtain a building permit, subdivision approval, or <br />to fill, excavate or mine more than ten yards of granular material within the city. <br /> <br />BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE (BMP). Erosion and sediment control and water <br />quality management practices that are the most effective and practicable means of controlling, <br />preventing and minimizing the degradation of surface water, including construction-phasing, <br />minimizing the length of time soil areas are exposed, prohibitions and other management practices <br />published by state or designated areawide planning agencies. <br /> <br />DETENTION FACILITY. A permanent natural or manmade structure, including wetlands, <br />for the temporary storage of runoff which contains a permanent pool of water. <br /> <br />DISCHARGE. The release, conveyance, channeling, runoff or drainage of stormwater, <br />including snowmelt, from a construction site. <br /> <br />EXPOSED SOIL AREAS. All areas of the construction site where the vegetation (trees, <br />shrubs, brush, grasses and the like) or impervious surface has been removed, thus rendering the soil <br />more prone to erosion. This includes topsoil stockpile areas, borrow areas and disposal areas within <br />the construction site. It does not include stockpiles or surcharge areas of gravel, . concrete or <br />bituminous. Once soil is exposed it is considered exposed soil, until it meets the definition of fmal <br />stabilization. <br /> <br />166 <br />