The following chapter governing the storage, collection, transporting
and disposal of solid waste is hereby adopted and shall apply throughout
Calvert County, including but not limited to all cities towns, hamlets
and villages, whether incorporated or unincorporated.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
Residue from fires, including incineration.
A person who hauls refuse for hire within Calvert County
either for cash or any other remuneration, or a person who operates
a vehicle within Calvert County for the purpose of transporting refuse
on a routine or regular basis.
Scrap lumber and other discarded construction materials.
Lumber, pipes, brick, masonry and other construction materials
from razed buildings and other structures.
Waste resulting from the preparation, cooking and serving
of food, including market waste and waste resulting from the handling,
storage and sale of produce.
Explosive material, drugs, poisons, radioactive material,
highly combustible material, or any discarded clothing, bedding, dressings
and other waste that may be contaminated by products of infection
or communicable disease, and any other waste designated from time
to time by the Health Officer as hazardous.
The Calvert County Health Officer or his designee.
Refuse customarily accumulated in a residential home and
is ordinarily limited to garbage and rubbish and specifically excludes
large appliances, furniture, sewage treatment residue and hazardous
wastes.
Food processing waste, boiler house cinders, scrape or shavings
of either lumber, metal, rubber, leather, cloth, paper, plastics or
glass, or other waste from a manufacturing process.
Any individual, firm, organization, association, partnership,
business, trust, corporation, company or governmental agency.
A definite portion of real estate, including land with its
appurtenances, a building or part of a building.
The pickup of refuse from residential homes and commercial
establishments by a commercial hauler.
Any discarded material or waste. Refuse includes garbage,
rubbish, ashes, street refuse, dead animals, animal waste, industrial
waste, demolition waste, construction waste, hazardous waste, sewage
treatment residue and abandoned vehicles.
Nonputrescible solid waste consisting of combustibles, including
paper, cartons, boxes, barrels, wood, excelsior, tree branches, yard
trimmings, wood furniture and bedding, and noncombustibles, including
metals, cans, metal furniture, appliances, dirt, glass, crockery and
minerals.
A site where refuse is disposed of by compaction and covering
with earth or other material approved by the Health Officer in a planned
and controlled manner that prevents public nuisances or hazards to
health and limits environmental pollution to the minimum that is practical.
Liquid, semiliquid or solid residue or sludge from sewage
treatment plants, or from individual septic tanks or other devices
used for the accumulation or treatment of human waste.
Sweepings, dirt, leaves, catch basin dirt, and contents of
litter receptacles.
