[Ord. 3-1986, 5/12/1986, § 1]
This Chapter shall be known as the "Hughesville Municipal Solid
Waste Ordinance."
[Ord. 3-1986, 5/12/1986]
The following words and phrases when used in this Chapter shall
have, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the meanings
given to them in this section.
A person desirous of being authorized as a "Collector".
Hughesville Borough, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania and the
governing body or its officials thereof.
A person authorized by the County with the approval of the
Borough of Hughesville to collect, transport, and dispose of municipal
waste.
A person, company, partnership, or corporation which engages
in the business of collecting and transporting solid waste for compensation
or consideration.
A process of controlled biological decomposition of organic
materials, producing a stable, aerobic humus-like product.
The Board of County Commissioners of Lycoming County, Pennsylvania
and/or the Lycoming County Solid Waste Department thereof.
The incineration, deposition, injection, dumping, spilling,
leaking, or placing of municipal waste into or on the land or water
in a manner that the solid waste or a constituent of solid waste enters
the environment, is omitted into the air, or is discharged to the
waters of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Any site, location, area, incinerator, resource recovery
facility, or premises to be used for the ultimate disposal of municipal
waste.
Any establishment engaged in service to persons including,
but not limited to, hospitals, nursing homes, orphanages, schools,
and universities.
The entire process or any part thereof, of storage, collection,
transportation, processing, treatment, and disposal of municipal wastes
by any person engaging in such process.
Any garbage, refuse, 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 and from community activities,
and any sludge not meeting the definition of residual or hazardous
waste as defined in the Pennsylvania Solid Waste Management Act (35
P.S. Section 6018.101 et seq.) from a municipal, commercial or institutional
water supply treatment plant, waste water treatment plant, or air
pollution control facility.
Any individual, partnership, corporation, association, institution,
cooperative enterprise, municipal authority, Federal Government or
agency, State institution and agency, or any other legal entity whatsoever
which is recognized by law as the subject of rights and duties.
Any technology used for the purpose of reducing the volume
or bulk of municipal waste or any technology used to convert part
or all of such waste materials for off-site reuse. Processing facilities
include, but are not limited to, transfer facilities, composting facilities,
and resource recovery facilities.
All materials which are discarded as useless.
At least two or more times per month.
Any garbage, refuse, other discarded material or other waste
including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous materials
resulting from industrial, mining or agricultural water supply treatment
facility, waste water treatment facility or air pollution control
facility, provided that it is not hazardous. The term "residual waste"
shall not include coal refuse as defined in the "Coal Refuse Disposal
Control Act". "Residual waste" shall not include treatment sludges
from coal mine drainage treatment plants, disposal of which is being
carried on pursuant to and in compliance with a valid permit issued
pursuant to "The Clean Streams Law".
Any waste, including but not limited to, municipal, residual
or hazardous wastes, including solid, liquid, semisolid or contained
gaseous materials.
The containment of any waste on a temporary basis in such
a manner as not to constitute disposal of such waste. It shall be
presumed that the containment of any waste in excess of one year constitutes
disposal. This presumption can be overcome by clear and convincing
evidence to the contrary.
The off-site removal of any municipal waste at any time after
generation.
