This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "County
of Carroll Litter Control Ordinance."
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings respectively ascribed to them, unless the context clearly
indicates a different meaning:
COMMERCIAL WASTE
All solid waste emanating from establishments engaged in
business. This category includes, but is not limited to, solid waste
resulting from the operation of stores, markets, office buildings,
restaurants, shopping centers, and theatres.
DUMPING GROUND
An unregulated disposal site that is operated without the
required compaction and cover.
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HAZARDOUS WASTE
Includes those materials which, because of their inherent
nature and/or quantities, require special handling during disposal
to avoid creating environmental damage or hazards to public health
or safety. "Hazardous waste" includes, but is not limited to, such
items as petroleum wastes, paints, plastics, explosives, acids, caustics,
chemicals, poisons, drugs, radioactive materials, asbestos fibers,
imported wool fibers, pathogenic wastes from hospitals, sanatoriums,
nursing homes, clinics, and veterinary hospitals, waste from slaughterhouses,
poultry processing plants, and the like. (Residential solid waste
normally contains some hazardous materials, but because such materials
are usually present in very small quantities, their safe disposal
either in a sanitary landfill or incinerator presents no special problems.
Therefore, residential waste is not considered to be hazardous within
the meaning of "hazardous waste" as used in this chapter.)
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
All solid waste resulting from manufacturing and industrial
processes such as, but not limited to, those carried on in factories,
processing plants, and slaughterhouses.
PERSON
An institution, public or private corporation, individual,
partnership, combination thereof, or other entity.
SANITARY LANDFILL
A land site on which engineering principles are utilized
to bury deposits of solid waste without creating nuisances or hazards
to public health or safety.
SOLID WASTE
Garbage, refuse, and other discarded solid materials, including
solid waste materials resulting from industrial, commercial, and agricultural
operations and from community activities, but does not include solid
or dissolved material in domestic sewage or other significant pollutants
in water resources, such as silt, dissolved or suspended solids in
industrial wastewater effluents, dissolved materials in irrigation
return flows, or other common water pollutants. The term "solid waste"
shall not include automobiles and other motor vehicles, nor any part
thereof, other than small parts or pieces of scrap metal.
It shall be unlawful for any person transporting any wastes,
whether liquid or solid, upon or over any public street or right-of-way
within the County to fail to provide a suitable and secure cover therefor
and to take such other precautions as may be necessary to prevent
any such waste matter from spilling from the vehicle in which it is
being transported.