Definitions Generally. For the purposes of this chapter the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this chapter unless it is apparent from the context that a different meaning was intended. Words and phrases not ascribed a meaning by this chapter shall have the meaning ascribed by Division 30, Part 1, Chapter
2 of the California
Public Resources Code, Sections 40105-40201, and the regulations of CalRecycle, if defined therein, as amended from time to time.
ACT
The California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989 (California
Public Resources Code Section 40000 et seq., sometimes referred to
as "AB 939") as amended from time to time.
APPLICABLE LAW
All laws, regulations, rules, orders, directives, judgments,
decrees, permits, approvals, or other requirement of the United States,
the State of California, the County of Los Angeles, the City, and
any federal, state, regional or local administrative and regulatory
agencies, that are applicable to the provision of solid waste and
recyclable materials handling services in the City, as they all may
be enacted, issued, or amended from time to time.
AUTHORIZED COLLECTOR
The City or a solid waste enterprise operating under the
provisions of a collection agreement authorized by the City Council.
BILL/BILLING
The statement(s) of charges provided to customers for solid
waste and recycling materials handling services rendered by an authorized
collector.
BIN
A metal container with a hinged lid and wheels with a capacity
of less than 10 cubic yards and designed for mechanical pick-up by
collection vehicles.
BROWN GOODS
Discarded electronic equipment such as, but not limited to,
cellular telephones, video cassette recorders, compact disc (CD) players,
CD recorders, digital video disc (DVD) players, DVD recorders, video
cassette recorders, stereos, audio receivers, video receivers, facsimile
machines, central processing units (CPUs), laptop computers, and peripherals
(e.g., external computer hard drives, computer keyboards, computer
mice, and computer printers), and other similar items commonly known
as "brown goods" and "e-waste."
BULKY ITEMS/BULKY WASTE
Solid waste that cannot and/or would not typically be accommodated
within a cart including specifically without limitation: furniture
(including chairs, sofas, mattresses, and rugs); appliances (including
refrigerators, ranges, washers, dryers, water heaters, dishwashers,
plumbing, small household appliances and other similar items, commonly
known as "white goods"); brown goods, electronic waste; wood waste,
and tree branches (if no larger than two feet in diameter and four
feet in length, and weighing not more than 60 pounds). "Bulky waste"
does not include car bodies or parts, construction and demolition
debris or items requiring more than two persons to remove. Other items
not specifically included or excluded above will be collected as bulky
waste provided the authorized collector has agreed to collect them.
In the event a question arises as to whether a specific item or category
of items meets the definition of bulky waste, the City Manager will
determine whether that definition will apply, which determination
will be final and binding.
CALRECYCLE
The State of California's Department of Resources Recycling
and Recovery.
CART
A plastic container with a hinged lid and wheels serviced
by an automated or semi-automated truck and with a capacity of no
less than 30 and no greater than 101 gallons.
CITY MANAGER
An individual having that title in the employ of the City
or the City Manager's designee.
CIVIC LITTER CONTAINER
A City-owned receptacle located in a public area for the
temporary accumulation and collection of solid waste generated by
the public in public places.
COLLECTION AGREEMENT
An agreement between the City and a solid waste enterprise,
entered into pursuant to this chapter authorizing the solid waste
enterprise to provide solid waste and recyclable materials handling
services.
COMMERCIAL PREMISES
All premises in the City, other than residential premises.
The term "commercial premises" includes, but is not limited to, stores;
offices; federal, state, county, and local governmental institutions,
including, but not limited to, schools, school districts, special
districts, and water districts; restaurants; rooming houses; hotels;
motels; offices; manufacturing, processing, or assembling shops or
plants; hospitals; clinics; nursing homes; convalescent centers; dormitories;
barracks; and card rooms. In the event a question arises as to whether
a specific premises meets the definition of "commercial premises,"
the City Manager will determine whether that definition will apply,
which determination will be final and binding.
COMPOSTING
The separation of organic waste from the waste stream for
controlled decomposition into a material that may be used as a soil
amendment.
CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION DEBRIS
Solid waste resulting from construction, remodeling, repair
or demolition operations at any premises and includes, but is not
limited to, concrete, asphalt, rock and dirt.
CONTAINER
Any and all types of solid waste or recyclable materials
receptacles, including carts, bins and roll-off boxes.
CUSTOMER
A person receiving solid waste and recyclable materials handling
services from an authorized collector pursuant to the terms of a collection
agreement.
DISPOSE/DISPOSAL
The ultimate disposition of solid waste at a landfill or
otherwise as permitted by applicable law.
EMSW CONVERSION
Shall have the meaning ascribed in California Public Resources
Code Section 40131.2, as amended from time to time.
FOOD WASTE
Unused and discarded solid food products/scraps, including,
but not limited to, all vegetables, fruits, meat, fish, shells, bones,
cheese, bread, coffee grounds, and discarded paper that is contaminated
with food waste.
GENERATOR
Any person whose act or process produced solid waste or recyclable
materials or whose act first causes solid waste or recyclable materials
to become subject to regulation.
GREEN WASTE
Any vegetative matter resulting from normal yard and landscaping
maintenance that is not more than four feet in its longest dimension
or four inches in diameter. "Green waste" includes plant debris, such
as tree trimmings, wood stumps, grass cuttings, dead plants, leaves,
branches, flowers, plant stocks, leaves, dead trees (subject to length
and diameter limitations), and other forms of organic waste that is
generated at the premises wherein the green waste is collected. "Green
waste" excludes yucca and palm fronds. "Green waste" does not include
material not normally produced from gardens or landscape areas, such
as brick, rock, gravel, large quantities of dirt, concrete, sod, nonorganic
wastes, oil, and painted or treated wood products. "Green waste" is
an organic waste.
HAZARDOUS WASTE
Wastes defined in
Public Resources Code § 40141
as well as all substances defined as hazardous waste, acutely hazardous
waste, or extremely hazardous waste in
Health and Safety Code §§ 25110.02,
25115, and 25117.1 and listed as hazardous waste by the United States
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), pursuant to the RCRA, and all
future amendments thereto, and all rules and regulations promulgated
thereunder.
HOLIDAY
Labor Day, New Year's Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving
Day, and Christmas Day, and shall also include any other day designated
by resolution of the City Council, the City Manager, or a collection
agreement.
MEDICAL WASTE
Shall have the meaning ascribed in California Health and
Safety Code Section 117600 et seq., as amended from time to time.
MULTIFAMILY DWELLING
Any building or lot containing four or more dwelling units.
Multifamily dwelling units generally receive solid waste and recyclable
materials collection through the use of shared bins.
OCCUPANT
The person who is in possession of, is the inhabitant of,
or has the care and control of a premises or is otherwise responsible
for the day-to-day operations of the premises.
ORGANIC WASTE
Food waste, green waste, landscape and pruning waste, nonhazardous
wood waste and food-soiled paper waste that is mixed in with food
waste.
OWNER
The person holding legal title to a premises.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, association, organization, partnership,
corporation, business trust, joint venture, the United States, the
State of California, the County of Los Angeles, the City, other cities,
and special purpose districts.
PREMISES
Any land or building in the City where solid waste is generated
or accumulated.
RCRA
The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act ("RCRA") (42 U.S.C.
§ 6901 et seq.), as amended from time to time.
RECYCLABLE MATERIALS
Solid waste that prior to collection is separated by the
generator from other solid waste, has some potential economic value,
and is handled differently than other solid waste in order to allow
it to be processed for recycling. Recyclable materials include any
materials identified by resolution of the City Council, the City Manager,
or a collection agreement.
RECYCLE/RECYCLING
The process of collecting, sorting, cleansing, treating,
and reconstituting materials that would otherwise be disposed of as
solid waste, and returning them to the economic mainstream in the
form of raw materials for new, reused, or reconstituted products which
meet the quality standards necessary to be used in the marketplace.
Recycling does not include transformation or EMSW conversion.
REFUSE
Solid waste exclusive of recyclable materials, organic waste,
and green waste.
RESIDENTIAL PREMISES
Premises upon which dwelling units exist, including, without
limitation, single-family dwellings and multifamily dwellings, apartments,
including apartments and condominiums in which each unit has separate
cooking and bathing facilities, but does not include hotels, motels,
rooming houses, hospitals, nursing homes, convalescent centers, dormitories
or barracks or other group living places. In the event a question
arises as to whether a specific premises meets the definition of "residential
premises," the City Manager will determine whether that definition
will apply, which determination will be final and binding.
SHARPS
Waste generated by a household that includes a hypodermic
needle, syringe, or lancet.
SINGLE-FAMILY DWELLING
A dwelling unit in a building or lot containing three or
fewer residential dwelling units. Single-family dwelling units generally
receive individual solid waste and recyclable materials handling services
with the use of carts.
SOLID WASTE
All discarded putrescible and nonputrescible solid and semisolid
wastes including refuse, recyclable materials, green waste, organic
waste, construction and demolition debris, bulky items, and any combination
thereof which are permitted for disposal of in a Class III landfill,
and which are included in the definition of the nonhazardous solid
waste set forth in the
California Code of Regulations.
SOLID WASTE AND RECYCLABLE MATERIALS HANDLING SERVICES
The collection, reduction, separation, recovery, conversion,
transfer, transport, storage, recycling, processing and disposal of
solid waste, including recyclable materials, green waste, and other
organic waste.
SOLID WASTE ENTERPRISE
Any person which is regularly engaged in the business of
providing solid waste and recyclable materials handling services.
TAX ROLL
The assessment roll upon which the general taxes of the City
are collected by the County of Los Angeles.
TRANSFORMATION
Shall have the meaning ascribed thereto in California Public
Resources Code § 40201, as amended from time to time.
UNIVERSAL WASTE
Discarded consumer products containing mercury, lead, cadmium
and other substances that are hazardous to human health and the environment,
including, but not limited to, batteries and fluorescent tubes.