This Part 3 shall be known and may be cited
as the "City of Glen Cove Infectious Waste Ordinance."
The purpose of this Part 3 is to protect the
health, safety and welfare of the citizens of the City of Glen Cove
by providing standards for the handling, storage, transportation and
disposal of infectious waste within the City of Glen Cove.
As used in this Part 3, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Any place where infectious waste is generated, contained,
stored, transferred or disposed of.
Any person engaged in the practice of medicine, any public
or private hospital as defined in Subdivision 1 of § 2801
of the Public Health Law of New York State; to any clinical laboratory
as defined in § 571 of the Public Health Law of the State
of New York; to any public or private health care clinic or facility;
to any physician, surgeon or other medical practitioner as defined
under Articles 131 and 131-B of the Education Law of the State of
New York; to any dentist as defined under Article 133 of the Education
Law of the State of New York who in fact generates infectious waste
as defined below; to any veterinarian or other animal health technician
as defined under Article 135 of the Education Law of the State of
New York; and to any person engaged in biomedical or other research
involving etiological agents.
The treatment of infectious waste in such a manner as to
provide complete combustion of the waste to carbonized or mineralized
ash.
Includes the following:
All surgical waste which consists of materials
discarded from surgical procedures involving the treatment of any
patient on isolation or ambulatory patient with an infectious condition,
except patients on reverse or protective isolation; or any materials
discarded from surgical procedures soiled or contaminated with blood;
and to any discarded human tissues and anatomical parts resulting
from such procedures.
All obstetrical waste which consists of materials
discarded from procedures involving the treatment of any patient on
isolation or ambulatory patient with an infectious condition, except
patients on reverse or protective isolation; or any obstetrical waste
soiled or contaminated with blood; or any discarded human tissues
or anatomical parts resulting from procedures.
All pathological waste, which consists of discarded
human tissues and anatomical parts from any surgical, obstetrical
or laboratory procedure or autopsy.
All emergency room wastes.
Any discarded blood or material soiled with
blood emanating from the treatment of any patient.
Any biological waste, which consists of any
discarded excretions, exudates, secretions, suctionings and all disposable
medical supplies which have come into contact with these substances,
that cannot legally be discarded directly into the municipal sewer
system and that emanate from the treatment of any patients on isolation
or an ambulatory patient with an infectious condition, except for
patients on reverse or protective isolation.
All waste discarded from renal dialysis, including
tubing and needles.
All discarded serums and vaccines that have
not been autoclaved.
All discarded laboratory waste that has come
into contact with any pathogenic organism and which has not been rendered
noninfectious by autoclaving or other approved sterilization technique.
Any discarded culture of bacteria, virus, protozoa
or other microorganism which has not been rendered noninfectious by
autoclaving or other approved sterilization technique.
Any animal carcass or part thereof which has
or may have been exposed to any pathogenic organism, and such bedding
and other waste from such animals that is discarded.
Any other articles that are being discarded
that might cause punctures or cuts, including but not limited to hypodermic
syringes, hypodermic needles, scalpel blades, broken laboratory glassware,
intravenous tubing with needles attached, pipets, etc., regardless
of whether or not such article has been or may have been exposed to
any pathogenic organism.
Any individual, public or private corporation, government
agency, municipality, industry, copartnership, association, firm,
trust, estate or any other legal entity.
Any and all articles described in Subsection L of the definition
of "infectious waste" above.
The containment of infectious waste in a manner as not to
constitute disposal of such waste.
The movement of infectious waste from the site of generation
to any intermediate points and/or the point of ultimate storage or
disposal.
Any surface or underground waters, including but not limited
to any river, stream, creek, lake, pond, ocean, sound, harbor, embayment,
tidal wetland, freshwater wetland, aquifer, perched water table and
such storm drains and storm sewers as connect thereto; but for the
purposes of this Part 3 shall not include the municipal sanitary sewer
system of the City of Glen Cove or any private septage system or cesspool.
