[R.O. 2011 § 230.010; Ord. No. 1222 § 1, 7-5-2016]
For the purposes of this Chapter, the following terms shall have these prescribed meanings:
Any detachable metal container designed or intended to be mechanically dumped into the packer type garbage truck used by the trash collector and varying in size from one (1) to eight (8) cubic yards.
Non-putrescible solid wastes consisting of combustible and/or non-combustible waste materials from dwelling units, commercial, industrial, institutional, or agricultural establishments which are either too large or too heavy to be safely and conveniently loaded by one (1) person in solid waste transportation vehicles, but does not include items that may not be disposed of in a landfill.
Any hospital, private club, church, school, factory, industrial or manufacturing concern, retail, professional, and wholesale facilities, and any other commercial enterprises offering goods or services to the public.
The City of Owensville, Missouri.
Removal of solid waste from the designated pickup location to the transportation vehicle.
All businesses, factories, stores, service providers, or other similar entities established to offer a service or product, not including dwelling units, multi-dwellings, or residences.
All solid waste generated from a source other than a dwelling unit.
A controlled biological reduction of organic waste to humus.
Waste materials from the construction and demolition of residential, industrial, or commercial structures, but shall not include materials defined as "clean fill" under Section 260.200.1(6), RSMo.
Such person, firm, or corporation as may be contracted to provide solid waste transportation and disposal for the City.
A location adjacent to and not more than five (5) feet from any street.
Disposable plastic bags with a capacity of at least thirty (30) gallons, specifically designed for storage of solid waste.
Any room or group of rooms located within a structure, and forming a single habitable unit with facilities which are used, or are intended to be used, for living, sleeping, cooking, and eating. Units of multiple housing facilities may be billed as dwelling units upon request by the owner of said dwelling units.
All waste and accumulation of animal, fruit, or vegetable matter that attends or results from the preparation, use, handling, cooking, serving, or storage of meats, fish, fowl, fruit, vegetable matter of any nature whatsoever which is subject to decay, putrefaction, and the generation of noxious and offensive gases or odors, or which may serve as breeding or feeding material for flies and other germ-carrying insects.
Any light gauge steel, plastic, or galvanized receptacle, closed at one end and open at the other, furnished with a top or lid and two (2) handles and of not more than thirty-gallon capacity and not weighing more than seventy-five (75) pounds when full.
Any waste or combination of wastes, as determined by the Hazardous Waste Management Commission by rules and regulations, which, because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical or infectious characteristics, may cause or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible, or incapacitating reversible, illness, or pose a present or potential threat to the health of humans or the environment.
The appointed public health and restaurant inspector of the City.
Clothes washers and dryers, water heaters, trash compactors, dishwashers, conventional ovens, ranges, stoves, wood stoves, air conditioners, refrigerators, and freezers.
Any building or structure containing two (2) or more contiguous living units and intended exclusively for residential use.
Any person who, alone or jointly or severally with others, shall be in actual possession of any dwelling unit or of any other improved real property, either as owner or as a tenant.
Any individual, partnership, corporation, association, institution, city, county, other political subdivision, authority, state agency or institution, or Federal agency or institution.
Items which are eliminated by State law from being disposed of in a solid waste disposal area, including, but not limited to, major appliances, waste oil, lead acid batteries, waste tires, and the like as the same may be now or hereafter defined by State law.
A detached single-family structure designed or intended for occupancy by one (1) person or by one (1) family. Each mobile home in a non-containerized area shall be deemed a residence and each pad space shall be deemed a single-family structure.
Solid waste resulting from the maintenance and operation of dwelling units.
Any person, or family unit living in a home, apartment, duplex, mobile home, or other form of private dwelling within the City.
All semisolid and solid waste derived from and during the procurement, storage, processing, cooking and consumption of food materials of animal, vegetable or synthetic origin which are intended for and are used by residents for the refreshment or sustenance of human beings or pets. "Solid waste" does not include dead animals or unprocessed animal parts. It includes: hard cover books, sawdust, shavings, pieces of cutting, tin cans, tinware and other metallic items and materials, glassware, crockery, dishes and parts of furniture, fixtures and other household equipment of such weight, dimension, size and shape that they can be handled by one (1) man and all other useless, rejected and cast off matter, except as herein provided, which is produced by and accumulated in households. "Solid waste" shall not include household hazardous waste, such as wet paint, pesticides, strong cleaning agents, tires, auto batteries and combustibles of any kind. "Solid waste" shall not include infectious waste as defined by State law (Section 260.200, RSMo.). "Solid waste" shall not include: ashes stored in ash pits, parts of trees, bushes and soil, mortar, plaster, concrete, bricks, stone, gravel, sand and all wasted or leftover materials resulting from grading, excavation, construction, alteration, repair or wrecking of buildings, structures, walls, roofs, roads, streets, walks or other facilities and such items of rubbish whose weight, size, dimension and shape require more than one (1) man for removal; provided, however, that debris resulting from remodeling, repair or reconstruction of any single-family residential dwelling unit by the occupants (not builders) may be removed if properly placed in acceptable containers, which containers are not heavier than can be handled by one (1) man.
Receptacle used by any person to store solid waste during the interval between solid waste collections, including disposable solid waste containers, bulk containers, and garbage cans.
The process of discarding or getting rid of unwanted material. In particular, the final disposition of solid waste by man.
A solid waste disposal area which also includes one (1) or more of the functions contained in the definitions of recycling, resource recovery facility, waste tire collection center, waste tire processing facility, waste tire site or solid waste processing facility, excluding incineration (see Section 260.200, RSMo.).
The entire process of managing solid waste in a manner which minimizes the generation and subsequent disposal of solid waste, including waste reduction, source separation, collection, storage, transportation, recycling, resource recovery, volume minimization, processing, market development, and disposal of solid wastes.
Keeping, maintaining or storing solid waste from the time of its production until the time of its collection.
The transporting of solid waste from the place of collection or processing to a solid waste processing facility or solid waste disposal area.
Major appliances (as defined by Section 260.200, RSMo.) and any other items that cannot be disposed of at landfills, not including hazardous or infectious waste.
Leaves, grass clippings, yard and garden vegetation, tree limbs and Christmas trees. The term does not include stumps, roots or shrubs with intact root balls.