As used in this chapter, the words below shall have the following definitions, unless the context specifically indicates otherwise:
means a person, company, agency, district, or other entity authorized by the city council to provide service or services to collect MSW, recyclable materials, and/or organic waste from others within the city limits in accordance with the provisions this chapter.
means the State of California Code of Regulations. CCR references are preceded with a number that refers to the relevant title of the CCR (e.g., "14 CCR" refers to Title 14 of CCR).
means the City of Oroville, a municipal corporation, and all the territory lying within the municipal boundaries of the city as presently existing or as such boundaries may be modified during the term.
means the city manager, or other executive in charge or their authorized designee(s) who is/are partially or wholly responsible for enforcing the ordinance. See also "regional or county agency enforcement officer."
means MSW, recyclable material, and organic waste collected by the authorized contractor pursuant to this chapter, and Article 3.
means all hotels, motor courts, restaurants, offices or office buildings, stores, warehouses, factories, hospitals, assisted living facilities and all other premises used for functions other than dwelling houses, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(6). A multifamily complex that consists of fewer than 5 units is not a commercial business for purposes of implementing this chapter.
has the same meaning as in 14 CCR Section 17896.2(a)(4), and means those materials that are processed in a controlled biological decomposition process, which are source separated from the municipal solid waste stream. Organic waste includes food scraps, food soiled paper products, yard trimmings and wood materials and do not contain hazardous waste.
includes waste building materials, packaging and rubble resulting from construction, remodeling, repair or demolition operations on pavements, houses, commercial and industrial buildings, and other structures and improvements.
means watertight metal or plastic objects with lids or covers, designed, and used to hold MSW, recyclable material, organic waste, or cooking oil/grease prior to collection, provided by the city or authorized contractor. Containers include wheeled carts with lids, bins, open-top roll-off boxes, compactors, and oil/grease tanks.
means placing materials in a container that is labeled and intended for storage of another type of material, and which would either interfere with the processing of the material or reduce the quality and value of the recovered material. For example, placing metals or plastics in a container labeled "yard trimmings" constitutes "contamination" because it would interfere with the equipment and processes used to compost or mulch the yard trimmings. Similarly, placing food scraps in a container labeled "recyclable materials" would contaminate recyclable materials, making it more difficult to properly sort and process them for marketing.
means a walled structure for the storage of MSW, recyclable materials and organic waste containers, with one or more gates for access.
means to bring into existence or create, or to use, maintain or possess an item, material or product, the result of which such creation, bringing into existence, use, maintenance, or possession is that the item, material or product first becomes, or is converted, transformed, evolved to, or deemed as MSW, recyclable materials, or organic waste. "Generate" shall not mean or include any form of activity, program, service of business by which MSW, recyclable materials or organic waste are in any manner collected or accumulated from another person, business, entity, or establishment of any kind.
means a site visit where a city reviews records, containers, and an entity's collection, handling, recycling, or landfill disposal of solid waste, recyclables, organic waste or edible food handling to determine if the entity is complying with requirements set forth in this article, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(35).
means a residential premises with 5 or more dwelling units. Multi-family premises do not include hotels, motels, or other transient occupancy facilities, which are considered commercial businesses.
means all fractions of discarded putrescible and non-putrescible solid, semi-solid and liquid wastes, including trash, refuse, paper, rubbish, ashes, industrial wastes, construction and demolition debris, discarded home and industrial appliances, manure, vegetable or animal solid and semi-solid wastes, and other discarded substances or materials. MSW does not include:
Hazardous waste, as defined in the State Public Resources Code Section 40141.
Low-level radioactive waste regulated pursuant to the State Radiation Control Law (Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 114960) of Part 9 of Division 104 of the State Health and Safety Code).
Untreated medical waste which is regulated pursuant to the State Medical Waste Management Act (Part 14 (commencing with Section 117600) of Division 104 of the State Health and Safety Code). Untreated medical waste shall not be disposed of in a MSW landfill, as defined in State Public Resources Code Section 40195.1. Medical waste that has been treated and deemed to be MSW shall be regulated pursuant to Division 30 of the State Public Resources Code.
Recyclable materials which have been source or type-separated from other waste material.
means solid wastes containing material originated from living organisms and their metabolic waste products, including but not limited to food, green material, landscape and pruning waste, organic textiles and carpets, lumber, wood, paper products, printing and writing paper, manure, biosolids, digestate, and sludges or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(46). Biosolids and digestate are as defined by 14 CCR Section 18982(a).
means the legal owner of real property fronting on any street; and as used in this chapter the singular shall include the plural, and shall include an individual, a firm, an association, a corporation, a partnership and the lessees, trustees, agents, employees, servants and representatives of any such owner. Proof of the assessment of any real property, the subject of this chapter, to any person or legal entity on the official assessor's rolls shall constitute prima facie evidence that such person or legal entity to whom such property is so assessed is the legal owner thereof.
means all roads, streets, avenues, boulevards, alleys, parkways and public rights-of-way or any portions thereof of the city.
means material which otherwise would become or be treated as MSW but which, by means of a process of collecting, sorting, cleansing, treating and reconstructing, may be returned to the economic mainstream in the form of finished or source material for new, reused or reconstituted products, which may be used in the market place. "Recyclable materials" includes paper, books, magazines, cardboard, box board, plastic, metal, glass, and other similar materials authorized by the city for collection by the authorized contractor.
means a person, who hauls MSW, recyclable material, or organic waste he or she has generated to a transfer, processing, recovery, or disposal facility other than the authorized contractor, whose primary business is not waste hauling. Self-hauler also includes a person who back-hauls waste, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(66). Back-haul means generating and transporting compost material to a destination owned and operated by the generator using the generator's own employees and equipment, or as other-wise defined in 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(66)(A).
means tree trimmings, grass cuttings, leaves, branches, and similar organic materials, including vineyard clippings, sawdust, wooden chopsticks, and other clean wood items under 36 inches.
(Ord. 1206; Ord. 1861 § 2, 2021)