This Chapter 92 shall be known as the "Steelton Borough Solid Waste Ordinance."
The purpose of this chapter is to provide for
the health, safety and welfare of the residents of the Borough of
Steelton by regulating the collection, storage, transportation, removal
and disposal of solid waste by:
The following words and phrases, when used in
this chapter, shall have, unless the context clearly dictates otherwise,
the meanings given to them in this section:
Person, persons, firm, firms, corporation, association, partnership
or other legal entity certified by the Borough of Steelton to collect
municipal waste in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
The Borough of Steelton, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.
Items of solid waste which, due to their size, shape or weight,
cannot be collected as a part of the normal weekly municipal waste
collection and therefore require special handling. For example, large
household appliances such as stoves and refrigerators, plumbing fixtures,
furniture, large crates, tires, tools, machinery or parts thereof
and similar items in size shall be considered bulky waste.
Any establishment engaged in nonmanufacturing or nonprocessing
business, including but not limited to stores, markets, office buildings,
restaurants, shopping centers and theaters.
Lumber, roofing material, sheathing, rubble, broken concrete,
macadam, plaster and brick, conduit, pipe, insulation and other material
which results from a construction, demolition or remodeling process.
Any disposal, processing or transfer facility utilized for
the management of municipal solid waste and specified as part of the
Dauphin County Intermunicipal Solid Waste Authority (DCISWA) Municipal
Waste Management Plan.
Any room or group of rooms located within a building and
forming a single habitable unit with facilities which are used or
intended to be used for living, sleeping, cooking and eating by one
family. This definition includes a mobile home. Any multifamily establishment
of two or three dwelling units is included in this definition. For
purposes of this chapter and any related contract, the term "dwelling
unit" or "residential unit" may also include any small commercial
establishment or institutional establishment that, due to its volume
of solid waste, may be treated by the Borough as a dwelling unit for
the collection and disposal of municipal solid waste and the collection,
processing and marketing of recyclables.
An agreement entered into by the Borough of Steelton with
a private or public person, persons or corporation, including municipal
corporations, for the collection and disposal of all municipal waste
and the collection and marketing of recyclable materials within the
Borough of Steelton to the extent provided by this chapter and the
agreement.
[Amended 12-16-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-10, approved 12-18-2019]
The person, persons, individual organization, group, association,
partnership, firm or corporation or other legal entity that was awarded
the exclusive contract to collect municipal waste.
Any establishment engaging in manufacturing or processing,
including but not limited to factories, foundries, mills, processing
plants and refineries.
Any establishment engaged in service to persons, including
but not limited to hospitals, nursing homes, orphanages, schools and
universities.
Rental housing apartment buildings or apartment complexes
which have four or more dwelling units, and condominium associations
and homeowners' associations of four or more dwelling units which
are established and organized in such a manner that the association
provides common services for the residents of the housing development.
This definition shall also include apartment buildings and apartment
complexes owned and operated by institutional establishments if this
institutional establishment charges a rental fee for the dwelling
units.
Any facility or building owned or operated by a local government
or county government, local government or county government authority,
state government or agency or federal government or agency.
Any garbage, refuse, industrial lunchroom or office waste
and any other material, including solid, liquid, semisolid or contained
gaseous materials, resulting from the operation of residential, municipal,
commercial or institutional establishments and from community activities;
and sludge not meeting the definition of residual or hazardous waste
in the Solid Waste Management Act[1] from a municipal, commercial or institutional waste water
supply treatment plant, public waste water treatment plant or air
pollution control facility. The term does not include source-separated
recyclable materials (Pennsylvania Act 101, Section 103).[2]
"Collector" shall mean a person, persons, individual organization,
group, association, partnership, firm or corporation or other legal
entity authorized under the provisions of this chapter to collect
and dispose of solid waste, garbage, rubbish, refuse or any other
form of municipal waste from residential or nonresidential properties
under the terms and conditions of this chapter; "collector" shall
also mean a hauler.
Commercial, industrial, institutional and municipal establishments.
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 the subject of rights and duties.
Municipal solid waste, as herein defined, that is generated
at a dwelling unit.
See "dwelling unit."
Any garbage, refuse or other discarded material or other
waste, including solid, liquid, semisolid or contained gaseous materials,
resulting from industrial, mining or agricultural water supply treatment
facility, waste water treatment facility or air pollution control
facility, provided that it is not hazardous. The term shall not include
coal refuse as defined in the act of September 24, 1968 (P.L. 1040,
No. 318), known as the "Coal Refuse Disposal Control Act."[3] The term shall not include treatment sludges from coal
mine drainage treatment plants, disposal of which is being carried
on pursuant to and in compliance with a valid permit issued pursuant
to the Act of June 22, 1937 (P.L. 1987, No. 394), known as the "Clean
Streams Law."[4]
All materials or substances that, as of the contract date
or any subsequent date, were generally discarded or rejected as being
spent, useless, worthless or in excess to the owners at the time of
such discard or rejection, including garbage, refuse, industrial and
commercial waste, sludges from air or water pollution control facilities
or water supply treatment facilities, rubbish, ashes, contained gaseous
materials, incinerator residue, demolition and construction debris
and offal; excluding sewage and other highly diluted water-carried
materials or substances, material and substances in gaseous form and
hazardous waste.
The portion of solid waste that is not municipal waste and
which is predominantly noncombustible, including metal furniture and
appliances, concrete rubble, mixed roofing materials, noncombustible
building debris, rock, gravel and other earthen materials, large automotive
vehicle parts, engines, blocks and transmissions, trailers, equipment,
wire and cable, as well as hazardous waste, pathological, infectious
and biological waste, sewage, sludge, explosives, chemicals and radioactive
materials or other materials which by applicable law or regulation
must be processed or disposed at specific facilities. If any governmental
agency or unit having appropriate jurisdiction shall determine that
any wastes which are not included, as of the effective date of this
chapter, within this definition of "unacceptable waste," are considered
harmful, toxic or dangerous to public health and welfare, than such
wastes shall be "unacceptable wastes" for the purposes of this chapter.
