This ordinance shall be known as the "Palmer
Township Municipal Solid Waste Ordinance."
The following words and phrases when used in
this ordinance shall have, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise,
the meanings given to them in this section:
APPLICANT
A person desirous of being authorized as a collector.
COLLECTOR
A person authorized to collect, transport and dispose of
municipal waste from Palmer Township.
COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any establishment engaged in a nonmanufacturing or nonprocessing
business, including but not limited to stores, markets, office buildings,
restaurants, shopping centers and theaters.
DISPOSAL
The incineration, deposition, injection, dumping, spilling,
leaking or placing of municipal waste into or on the land or water
in a manner that the waste or a constituent of the waste enters the
environment, is emitted into the air or is discharged to the waters
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
DISPOSAL SITE
Any site, facility, location, area or premises to be used
for the disposal of municipal waste.
GARBAGE
All animal and vegetable wastes attending or resulting from
the handling, dealing, storing, preparation, cooking and consumption
of foods.
INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any establishment engaged in manufacturing or processing,
including but not limited to factories, foundries, mills, processing
plants, refineries and the like.
INSTITUTIONAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any establishment engaged in service to persons, including
but not limited to hospitals, nursing homes, orphanages, schools and
universities.
MANAGEMENT
The entire process, or any part thereof, of storage, collection,
transportation, processing, treatment and disposal of municipal waste
by any person engaging in such process.
MUNICIPAL WASTE
Any garbage, refuse, industrial, lunchroom or office waste
and other material, including solid, liquid, semisolid or contained
gaseous material resulting from operation of residential, municipal,
commercial or institutional establishments and from community activities
and any sludge not meeting the definition of residual or hazardous
waste from a municipal, commercial or institutional water supply treatment
plant, wastewater treatment plant or air pollution control facility
(Pennsylvania Solid Waste Management Act 97, Section 103).
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, corporation, association, institution,
cooperative enterprise, municipal authority, federal government or
agency, state institution or agency, or any other legal entity whatsoever
which is recognized by law as being subject to the rights and duties
of a "person."
PROCESSING
Any technology used for the purpose of reducing the volume
or bulk of municipal waste or any technology used to convert part
or all of such waste materials for off-site reuse. Processing facilities
include but are not limited to transfer facilities, composting facilities,
incinerators, recycling facilities and resource recovery facilities.
REFUSE
The collective term applying to all garbage, rubbish, ashes,
leaves and grass trimmings from residential, municipal, commercial
or institutional premises.
REGULAR
At least three or more times per month.
SOLID WASTE
Any waste, including but not limited to municipal, residual
or hazardous wastes, including solid, liquid, semisolid or contained
gaseous materials (Pennsylvania Solid Waste Management Act 97, Section
103).
STORAGE
The containment of any municipal waste on a temporary basis
in such a manner as not to constitute disposal of such waste, and
it shall be presumed that the containment of any municipal waste in
excess of one year constitutes disposal.
TOWNSHIP
Palmer Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania.
TRANSPORTATION
The off-site removal of any municipal waste generated or
present at any time from the Township of Palmer.
Any person transporting solid waste within the
Township shall prevent or remedy any spillage from vehicles or containers
used in the transport of such solid waste.