[Ord. 1240-00, 6/12/2000, § 101]
For the purposes of this Part 1:
The Pennsylvania Municipal Waste Planning, Recycling and
Waste Reduction Act, P.L. 556.
The Borough of Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania.
That individual, partnership, firm, corporation or business
entity designated by the Borough Council by means of an independent
contract as the person having the exclusive right to collect refuse
within the Borough, but shall not be construed as meaning that said
person is an employee, official or representative of the Borough.
Any condition which provides the necessary environment for
the birth or hatching of vectors.
Any customer, other than a residential customer, whether
a commercial, institutional or municipal establishment or a multi-dwelling
unit, normally requiring more than three thirty-two-gallon containers
per week to hold the refuse to be collected.
The use of any premises as other than a dwelling, and shall
include but not limited to hotels, boarding- and lodging houses, tourist
cabins, motels and trailers. "Commercial establishment" shall also
include any multifamily residences occupied by more than two families
normally requiring more than three thirty-two-gallon containers per
week.
A microbial degradation of organic waste to produce a relatively
nuisance-free product of potential value as a soil conditioner.
The co-composting facility to be constructed and operated
by or on behalf of, or under agreement with, the county and designated
as a disposal facility in the County's Solid Waste Management
Plan.
The receptacle in which refuse is placed for collection,
including cans, boxes and plastic bags; provided, however, that they
are so constructed so as to be fit for permanent use or, in the case
of bags, for one-time use. Such containers, when filled, shall not
weigh more than 75 pounds nor exceed in volume 32 gallons.
The County of Adams, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
A building used for residential purposes, but shall not include
hotels, boarding- and lodging houses, tourist cabins, motels and trailers,
which are considered commercial establishments. "Dwelling" also shall
not include more than two attached dwelling units.
One or more rooms in a dwelling, which room or rooms have
fixed cooking facilities and are arranged for occupancy by one person,
two or more persons living together, or one family.
The control and elimination of vectors by eliminating their
harborage places, by removing or making inaccessible materials that
may serve as their food, by poisoning, spraying, fumigating, fogging,
larviciding, trapping or by any other recognized and legal vector
control elimination methods approved by the local or state authority
having such administrative jurisdiction.
Any place where vectors can live, nest or seek shelter.
Any waste which, by mixture of its quantity or content, presents
a hazard to the individuals handling it, a hazard to public health
or a source of potential pollution to the air or waters of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania or which makes land unfit or undesirable for normal
use, including but not limited to herbicides, explosives, pathological
wastes, radioactive materials and any materials defined as hazardous
wastes by federal or state law or regulations.
Municipal waste which, unless processed, disposed of, stored,
collected or transported in accordance with this Part, is or may be
contaminated by a disease-producing microorganism or material or may
harm or threaten human health. The term includes the following wastes,
unless they are generated by individual residences:
Wastes generated by hospitalized patients who are isolated or
on blood and body fluid precautions, in order to protect others from
their severe and communicable disease.
Cultures and stocks of etiologic agents.
Animal waste blood and animal products which are known or are
suspected to contain contagious zoonotic pathogens and all human waste
blood and blood products.
Tissues, organs, body parts, blood, fetal remains and body fluids
that are removed during surgery and autopsy.
Wastes generated by surgery or autopsy of septic cases or patients
with infectious disease.
Wastes that were in contact with pathogens in any type of laboratory
work.
Sharps.
Wastes that were in contact with blood of patients undergoing
hemodialysis at hospitals or independent treatment centers.
Carcasses and body parts of animals exposed to contagious zoonotic
pathogens.
Those facilities that house or serve groups of people, including
but not limited to hospitals, nursing homes, orphanages, day-care
centers, schools and universities.
Leaves from trees, bushes and other plants. Garden residues
and tree trimmings shall also be considered leaf waste, but grass
clippings shall not be included in this definition.
Garbage, rubbish, refuse, ashes, debris, 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 or from community
activities and any sludge not meeting the definition of "residual
waste" or "hazardous waste" under, 25 Pa.Code § 27.1 from
a municipal, commercial or institutional water supply treatment plant,
wastewater treatment plant or air-pollution control facility. This
term does not include source-separated recyclable material, residual
waste or hazardous waste. The following materials are considered municipal
waste:
Ashes, consisting of the residue from the burning of coal, wood,
paper or other combustible material.
Debris, consisting of stones, brick, plaster, broken concrete
or earth, in such quantity and size as shall not violate the restriction
hereinafter set forth with the respect to the size and weight of containers.
Garbage, consisting of all animal and vegetable wastes resulting
from the handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of foods.
Rubbish, consisting of all solid household wastes, garbage,
ashes, yard waste and debris, except body wastes, other than recyclable
materials (defined herein), such as glass other than containers, ceramics,
plastics other than beverage containers and laundry detergent containers,
small scraps of wood, etc.
Any individual person, firm, partnership, association, corporation,
company or organization of any kind.
These materials which may be processed or refabricated for
reuse and which are specified by the Borough and the county for separation
from the regular municipal waste. Such materials may include but are
not limited to aluminum cans, bi-metal or tin containers, clear and
colored glass containers, corrugated paper, newspapers and plastic
containers and any other items selected by the Borough or specified
in future revisions to Act 101. Recyclable materials selected by the
Borough may be revised from time to time as deemed necessary by the
Borough.
The collection, separation, recovery and sale or reuse of
recyclable materials which would otherwise be disposed of or processed
as municipal waste.
Any customer, whether a commercial establishment, dwelling
or dwelling unit or a special event, normally requiring three or fewer
thirty-two-gallon containers per week to hold the municipal waste
to be collected.
That portion of municipal waste comprised of garbage, rubbish
and refuse which normally originates from residential private households
or apartment households.
A rodent, arthropod or insect capable of transmitting a disease
or infections. Vectors shall include but not be limited to rats, mosquitoes,
cockroaches, flies, and ticks.
