This article sets forth special provisions for special wastes other than municipal solid wastes, i.e., normal, residential and commercial solid waste, generated within a community.
A. 
The disposal or processing of all hazardous wastes, special wastes and infectious wastes, as defined in § 71-16 below, is prohibited in the Town of Hartford.
B. 
Nothing in this section shall include any waste or materials arising from normal agricultural activities. "Hazardous wastes" or "special wastes" shall not include manure, compost or fertilizers used in normal agricultural activities generated by an operating farm.
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
HAZARDOUS WASTES
A solid waste that meets one or more of the following criteria:
A. 
The solid waste has been designated as a hazardous waste, particulate or material by the United States Environmental Protection Agency in 40 CFR Part 261, as may be amended;
B. 
The solid waste has been designated as a hazardous waste, particulate or material by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation in 6 NYCRR Part 371, as may be amended;
C. 
The solid waste exhibits any of the characteristics as designated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (40 CFR Part 261) or the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (6 NYCRR Part 371), as the respective regulations may be amended:
(1) 
Ignitability.
(2) 
Corrosivity.
(3) 
Reactivity.
(4) 
Toxicity.
INFECTIOUS WASTES
Waste materials that include:
A. 
Equipment, instruments, implements, and fomites (any substance that may harbor or transmit pathogenic organisms) of a disposable nature from the rooms of patients who are suspected to have or have been diagnosed as having a communicable disease;
B. 
Laboratory wastes, including pathological specimens, i.e., all excretions and secretions obtained from patients or laboratory animals and disposable fomites attendant thereto;
C. 
Surgical operating room pathological specimens and disposable fomites attendant thereto, and similar disposable materials from outpatient areas and emergency rooms; and
D. 
Materials or waste of any nature arising from embalming facilities.
PROCESSING
"Processing" is meant to include converting, commercial incinerating, refining, transforming, and treating.
SPECIAL WASTES
Include, but are not limited to, materials from construction, repair, demolition and excavation, solid industrial wastes, paper sludge, septage, composted septage, ash generated from resource-recovery facilities, hazardous wastes, matter in the form of animal carcasses, and/or any solid, liquid or gaseous matter generated from the destruction, incineration, disposal or processing of animal carcasses.