[Ord. 508, 5/9/2017]
For purposes of this Part, the following words are defined as follows:
The Pennsylvania Solid Waste Management Act, Act 1980-97, enacted July 7, 1980, and any amendments thereto.
Poultry and livestock manure, or residual materials in liquid or solid form, generated in the production, keeping and/or marketing of poultry, livestock, fur-bearing animals and their products, provided that such waste is not a hazardous waste. The term includes the residual materials generated in producing, harvesting and marketing of all agronomic, horticultural, sivicultural and agricultural crops or commodities grown on what are usually recognized and accepted as farms, forests or other agricultural lands.
The Borough of Rankin, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
The private collection service provider under contract with Rankin Borough to provide solid waste and bulk waste removal and disposal services to dwellings in Rankin Borough.
Items that require special handling because of their size, shape or weight so that they do not fit neatly in trash cans or trash bags, including large household appliances such as dryers, washers, stoves, dishwashers and refrigerators, large fixtures such as sinks and bathtubs, large electronic devices such as auto parts, trees, branches or stumps, plumbing fixtures, large crates, storage units, and other similarly large, bulky items.
The roadside or curbside location adjacent to a dwelling where that dwelling's solid waste containers containing that dwelling's solid waste and/or bulk waste is to be placed for weekly pickup by the Borough's collection service provider, or, in the case of exempt dwellings and nonresidential buildings not serviced by the Borough's collection service provider, such area designated in the contract between owner and its hauler/private collector.
All municipal and residual waste building materials, grubbing, waste and rubble resulting from construction, remodeling, repair and demolition operations on houses, commercial buildings and other structures and pavements.
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (f/k/a Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources), and its authorized representatives, successors or assigns.
The incineration, deposition, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking or placing of solid waste into or on the land or water in a manner that the solid waste or a constituent of the solid waste enters the environment, is emitted into the air or is discharged to the waters of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Solid waste, comprised of garbage and/or rubbish, which normally originates in the dwelling or apartment house.
An individual residence, flat, apartment, live-work unit, or other unit utilized by an individual, single family or single group of cohabitating roommates for eating, sleeping and residential living, or otherwise designed to be utilized for such purposes, but not presently occupied, and shall include dwellings that are property tax exempt contained in housing projects owned and/or operated by the state, county, or a governmental authority or local governmental authority.
Any privately owned apartment building or collection of dwellings in an affordable housing plan that has the following characteristics:
The private owner receives or is contracted to receive a government subsidy, government subsidies and/or property tax abatements or reductions to provide affordable housing dwellings to limited income individuals;
The apartment or affordable housing plan contains 35 or more affordable housing units all having the same owner and all located on one parcel of land or on one or more adjacent parcels of land; and
The apartment or affordable housing plan is not exempt from property taxes and/or owned or operated by any state or county housing authority or other government entity.
All animal and vegetable matter and refuse resulting from the storage, handling, preparation and consumption of food, which normally originates in the dwelling or apartment house.
Any person that has been licensed by the Allegheny County Department of Health and permitted by the Department, pursuant to Act 97, and licensed by the Borough, which collects, transports and disposes of refuse for a fee.
Any written authorization or approval issued by the Borough which permits any person, firm, copartnership, association or corporation to collect, transport, and/or dispose of garbage, rubbish or refuse in or from the Borough.
Liquids, poisons, acids, caustics, explosives, gasses, e-waste, televisions, computers and other hazardous materials or hazardous waste that cannot be adequately or safely handled or disposed of by the Borough's collection service provider or that must be specially contained or disposed of by special means other than the Borough's collection service provider in accordance with applicable state, federal or local hazardous waste or hazardous material-related laws and regulations.
All buildings not containing dwellings as defined herein. A building may be part residential and part nonresidential for purposes of this Part where it contains a mix of dwellings and non-dwelling units. Hotels and motels are designated as nonresidential buildings for purposes of this Part.
The person(s) or entity(ies) holding legal title to a dwelling or to exempt dwellings.
Any individual, partnership, corporation, association, institution, cooperative enterprise, state institution and agency, or any other legal entity which is recognized by law as the subject of rights and duties. In any provisions of this Part prescribing a fine, imprisonment or penalty, or any combination of the foregoing, the term "person" shall include the officers and directors of any corporation or other legal entity having officers and directors.
All solid waste materials which are discarded as useless.
Primarily household refuse, and shall be further defined to include discarded ashes, paper, plastic, containers, tin cans, bottles, clothing, rags, cloth, leather, rubber, metal foils, bottles, crockery, glass, glassware, and earthenware, pots and pans, and other, similar items of the type typically utilized by and disposed of from time to time by a dwelling owner or resident.
All solid waste generated by a dwelling that is solid in nature (as opposed to liquid waste). The term "solid waste" includes and encompasses garbage, rubbish, refuse, domestic or household waste, and yard waste. The definition of solid waste may be expanded by the Borough's collection service provider as it may deem proper.
Such garbage cans, containers, bags or other receptacles, as approved by the Borough's collection service provider, used to store solid waste for ultimate pickup and disposal by the Borough's collection service provider, or such receptacles specified in the contract between an exempt dwellings or nonresidential building owner and hauler/private collector.
Any person or persons, other than the owner, occupying or in possession of a dwelling.
Vegetative matter resulting from landscaping, maintenance, including accumulation of lawn, grass, shrubbery cuttings or clippings and dry leaf rakings, palm fronds, tree branches, bushes and shrubs, green leaf cuttings, fruits, or other matter usually created as refuse in the care of lawns and yards.