The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this chapter,
shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where
the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
ASHES
The residue from the burning of wood, coal, coke, or other
combustible materials.
GARBAGE
Putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the
handling, preparation, cooking, and consumption of food.
HAZARDOUS WASTES
Solid waste that is deemed hazardous under federal statutes,
rules or regulations.
INFECTIOUS WASTE
A limited class of substances that carry a risk of transmitting
disease, including, but not limited to:
A.
Microbiological laboratory wastes, including clinical and stocks
of infectious agents from clinical research and industrial laboratories,
and disposable culture dishes and devices used to transfer, inoculate
and mix cultures;
B.
Pathological wastes, including human or animal tissues, organs
and body parts, removed during surgery, autopsy, or biopsy;
C.
Disposable equipment, instruments, utensils, and other disposable
materials which require special precautions because of contamination
by highly contagious diseases;
D.
Blood and blood products, including waste blood, blood serum
and plasma;
E.
Used sharps, including used hypodermic needles, syringes, scalpel,
blades, Pasteur pipettes, and broken glass; and
F.
Contaminated animal carcasses, body parts and bedding, especially
those intentionally exposed to pathogens in research, in the production
of biological or the "in vivo" testing of pharmaceuticals.
MOBILE HOME PARK
Any plot of ground upon which three or more mobile homes,
occupied for dwelling or sleeping purposes, are located, regardless
of whether or not a charge is made for such accommodation.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, cooperative,
association, or any other entity owning, operating, controlling, or
inhabiting any house, residence, shop, establishment, or other premises
within the corporate boundaries of the City.
PREMISES
Any property within the City corporate boundaries adaptable
for human occupancy, and shall also mean, but not be limited to, business
places, apartment houses, offices, theaters, hotels, residences, cafes,
restaurants, eating places, tourist facilities, hospitals, schools,
vacant lots, and any other places or locations within the City boundaries
where solid waste accumulates.
PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR
The employee of the City who enforces designated portions
of this Code, including this chapter.
RESIDENTIAL COLLECTION
Solid waste collected from premises occupied as individual
residential dwellings, containing no more than four families per lot,
and mobile home parks where the water and/or sewage service is furnished
by the City and billed to the individual occupant of the mobile home.
RUBBISH
Includes, but is not limited to, all nonputrescible solid
wastes excluding ashes, such as paper, cardboard, cans, wood, yard
clippings, leaves, dirt, glass, bedding, crockery, and similar materials.
SOLID WASTE
Any garbage, refuse, sludge from a waste treatment plant,
water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility and
other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semisolid or contained
gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining and
agricultural operations and from community activities, but not including
those items excluded as solid waste by the solid waste management
regulations adopted by the State Environmental Improvement Board.
SPECIAL WASTES
Types of solid wastes that have unique handling, transportation,
or disposal requirements to ensure protection of the environment and
the public health and safety as defined by the state solid waste management
regulations.
TRANSFER STATION
A transferable container designated by the City as a receptacle
for solid waste.
Any violation of this chapter is punishable by a fine as provided in Chapter
1, General Provisions, Article
III, Violations and Penalties, §
1-19.
The purpose of this chapter is to preserve the health, safety,
comfort, and convenience of the inhabitants of the City and to preserve,
protect, and improve the environmental quality of the City.
The City shall provide for suitable equipment and personnel
sufficient to collect solid waste within the City and shall provide
by contract for adequate areas for the disposal of solid waste. To
achieve such purposes, the City Council may enter into contracts for
the transportation and disposal of solid waste.
The City shall observe the following holidays as noncollection
days: New Year's Day, Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving,
and Christmas. Collection shall occur on an alternate day approved
by the Department. Commercial collections on such holidays shall be
performed on the day either prior to or after the holiday at the option
of the City.
Each owner, manager, occupant, tenant or lessee of a house or
building used for residential, business or commercial purposes shall
maintain supervision and surveillance over the garbage or trash receptacles
serving such premises, and if such receptacles are not emptied and
the contents removed by an employee of the City or other duly authorized
person for a period of five days, he shall notify the Department of
the fact within five days.