This article shall be known and referred to as the "Municipal Solid
Waste Management Regulations."
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
ACT 90
The Pennsylvania Waste Transportation Safety Act of 2002 (P.L. 596,
No. 90, June 29, 2002).
ACT 97
The Pennsylvania Solid Waste Management Act of 1980 (P.L. 380, No.
97, July 7, 1980).
ACT 101
The Pennsylvania Municipal Waste Planning, Recycling and Waste Reduction
Act of 1988 (Act 1988-101, July 28, 1988).
COLLECTOR OR WASTE HAULER
Any person, firm, partnership, corporation or public agency who is
engaged in the collection and/or transportation of municipal waste and/or
source-separated recyclable materials.
COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any establishment engaged in a nonmanufacturing or nonprocessing
business, including, but not limited to, stores, markets, offices, restaurants,
shopping centers and theaters.
COUNTY
The County of Bucks, Pennsylvania.
DISPOSAL
The deposition, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking or placing
of solid waste into or on the land or water in a manner that the solid waste
or a constituent of the solid waste enters the environment, is emitted into
the air or is discharged to the waters of this commonwealth. Disposal facilities
include, but are not limited to, municipal waste landfills and construction/demolition
waste landfills as defined by Act 101, Act 97, and/or PADEP rules and regulations
(25 Pa. Code Chapters 75 and 271).
INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any establishment engaged in manufacturing or production activities,
including, but not limited to, factories, foundries, mills, processing plants,
refineries, mines, and slaughterhouses.
INSTITUTIONAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any establishment or facility engaged in services, including, but
not limited to, hospitals, nursing homes, schools and universities.
LEAF WASTE
Leaves, garden residues, shrubbery and tree trimmings, and similar
materials, but not including grass clippings.
MUNICIPALITY
Any of the 54 minor civil divisions in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
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" under Act 97 from a municipal,
commercial or institutional water supply treatment plant, wastewater treatment
plant, or air pollution control facility. The term does not include any source-separated
recyclable materials.
PADEP
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, corporation, association, institution,
cooperative enterprise, municipality, municipal authority, federal government
or agency, state institution or agency, or any other legal entity recognized
by law as the subject of rights and duties. In any provisions of this article
prescribing a fine, imprisonment, or penalty or any combination of the foregoing,
the term "person" shall include the officers and directors of any corporation
or other legal entity having officers and directors.
PROCESSING
Any technology used for the purpose of reducing the volume or bulk
of municipal or residual waste or any technology used to convert part or all
of such materials for off-site reuse. Processing facilities include, but are
not limited to, transfer facilities, recycling facilities, composting facilities,
and resource recovery facilities.
RECYCLING
The collection, separation, recovery and sale or reuse of metals,
glass, paper, leaf waste, plastics and other materials which would otherwise
be disposed of or processed as municipal waste or the mechanized separation
and treatment of municipal waste (other than through combustion) and creation
and recovery of reusable materials other than a fuel for the generation of
energy.
SCAVENGING
The unauthorized and uncontrolled removal of any material stored
or placed at a point for subsequent collection or from a processing or disposal
facility.
TRANSPORTATION
The off-site removal of any municipal waste at any time after generation.
It shall be unlawful for any person to deposit any municipal waste at
any point or place in the Borough which refuse shall not have originated within
the Borough.
All municipal waste materials resulting from building or structure alterations,
repairs, construction, reconstruction or demolition shall be removed by and
at the expense of the owner of the premises upon which such waste was produced.
Any person who violates any provision of this article shall, upon conviction
at a summary proceeding, be sentenced to pay a fine to the use of the Borough
of not more than $1,000, together with the costs of prosecution or be imprisoned
for a period of not more than 30 days, or both. Each day of violation shall
be considered as a separate offense.