The following words and phrases, for the purpose of this Chapter, are defined and shall be construed as hereunder set out:
(a) City Administrator.
"City Administrator" shall mean the City Administrator of the City of Carson ("City") or his or her designee.
(b) Collection.
"Collection" shall mean the operation of gathering together within the City and/or transporting by means of a motor vehicle any solid waste or recyclable material.
(c) Collector.
"Collector" shall mean any person who has been issued a franchise to provide residential or commercial/industrial solid waste or recyclable materials collection services in the City, or who has been issued a permit and/or license by the City to operate as a commercial/industrial solid waste collector and is authorized by Public Resources Code Sections 49520 and 49521 to operate as a commercial/industrial solid waste collector for the unexpired period of time set forth in a notice given by the City pursuant to such Section 49520.
(d) Commercial/Industrial Business Owner.
"Commercial/industrial business owner" shall mean any person, firm, corporation or other enterprise or organization holding or occupying, singly or with others, commercial/industrial premises, whether or not the holder of the title of the commercial/industrial premises.
(e) Commercial/Industrial Collector.
"Commercial/industrial collector" means a collector providing solid waste collection services to commercial and industrial premises, including construction and/or demolition sites.
(f) Commercial/Industrial Premises.
"Commercial/industrial premises" shall mean all occupied real property in the City except property occupied by Federal, State or local governmental agencies which do not consent to their inclusion, and except residential premises, and shall include without limitation, multiple housing (including but not limited to housing projects containing or consisting of four (4) or more units, whether apartment houses, condominiums, mixed condominiums and rental housing, or mobile home parks) wholesale or retail establishments, restaurants, other food establishments, bars, stores, shops, offices, manufacturing, repair, research and development, professional, services, sports or recreational facilities and construction and demolition sites.
(g) Construction Site or Demolition Site.
"Construction site" or "demolition site" shall mean any real property in the City of Carson in, on or from which a building or structure is being fabricated, assembled, erected or demolished and which produces construction or demolition solid waste which must be removed from the property, and requires the use of commercial refuse containers (two (2), three (3), four (4), six (6) or eight (8) yard containers) or fifteen (15), twenty-five (25) or forty (40) yard roll-off boxes.
(h) Construction or Demolition Waste.
"Construction or demolition waste" shall mean any solid waste generated as the result of construction or demolition, including without limitation discarded packaging or containers and waste construction materials, whether brought on site for fabrication or used in construction or resulting from demolition, excluding liquid waste and hazardous waste.
(i) Disposal.
"Disposal" means the complete operation of treating and/or disposing of solid waste after the collection thereof.
(j) Hazardous Waste.
"Hazardous waste" shall mean and include waste defined as hazardous by Public Resources Code Section 40141, namely a waste or combination of wastes, which because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical or infectious characteristics may do either of the following: (i) cause or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible, or incapacitating reversible, illness; (ii) pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or environment when improperly treated, stored, transported, or disposed of, or otherwise managed. "Hazardous waste" includes extremely hazardous waste and acutely hazardous waste, and such other waste as may hereafter from time to time be designated as such by the Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") or other agency of the United States Government, or by the California Legislature or any agency of the State of California empowered by law to classify or designate waste as hazardous, extremely hazardous or acutely hazardous.
(k) Holiday.
"Holiday" shall mean:
New Year's Day |
Memorial Day |
Independence Day |
Thanksgiving Day |
Christmas Day |
"Holiday" shall also mean any other day designated as such in a contract between a collector and the labor union serving as the exclusive representative of said collector's employees, provided such holiday is approved by the City Council.
(l) In the City or Within the City.
"In the City" or "Within the City" shall mean within the City limits of the City as such limits now exist or may hereafter exist by virtue of the annexation of territory to or detachment of territory from the present limits of the City.
(n) Person.
"Person" shall mean any individual, association, firm, partnership, corporation, or any other group or combination thereof acting as a unit.
(o) Processing.
"Processing" means the reduction, separation, recovery and conversion of solid waste.
(p) Public Agency.
"Public agency" shall mean any governmental agency or department thereof, whether, Federal, State, or local.
(q) Recyclable Materials.
"Recyclable materials" shall mean the following solid waste materials generated on or emanating from residential or commercial/industrial premises and no longer useful or wanted thereon: glass bottles and jars – any food or beverage container (excluding ceramics and chemical containers); aluminum – cans, foil, pie tins and similar items (excluding dirt or organic material); steel or bi-metal cans not to exceed one (1) gallon size; PET – plastic soda bottles or other bottles with the designated "PET" symbol; HDPE – plastic milk and water bottles with the designated "PET" symbol (excluding detergent or bleach bottles and other plastic products); newspaper; cardboard – separated and not having waxed surfaces; computer printout (excluding carbon); and white ledger – white bond paper, office paper, white envelopes (excluding coated paper); and such additional materials as the City Council may designate from time to time.
(r) Recycling.
"Recycling" means the process of collecting, sorting, cleansing, treating, and reconstituting materials that would otherwise become solid waste, and returning them to the economic mainstream in the form of raw material for new, reused, or reconstituted products which meet the quality standards necessary to be used in the marketplace. Recycling does not include transformation as defined in Public Resources Code Section 40201.
(s) Recycling Container.
"Recycling container" shall mean a container provided to residential premises for use in collecting and moving recyclable materials to curbside for collection by the collector. Said container shall have a capacity of at least eighteen (18) gallons and shall be marked with the City recycling logo. The type, color and design of the container provided shall be subject to approval by the City Administrator.
(t) Residential Collector.
"Residential collector" means the collector who collects solid waste and recyclable materials from residential premises under an exclusive contract or franchise.
(u) Residential Householder.
"Residential householder" shall mean any person holding and/or occupying residential premises, whether or not the owner, singly or with his or her family, in the City.
(v) Residential Owner.
"Residential owner" shall mean the owner of any residential premises within the City.
(w) Residential Premises.
"Residential premises" shall mean any residential property within the City, except rental housing projects, condominiums, apartment houses or other residential housing with four (4) or more dwelling units.
(x) Resource Recovery.
"Resource recovery" shall mean any use or refuse or solid waste collected pursuant to this Chapter, except for land disposal or transfer for land disposal. "Resource recovery" shall include, but is not limited to, transformation, composting and multi-material recycling.
(y) Solid Waste.
"Solid waste" shall mean all putrescible and nonputrescible solid and semisolid wastes, generated in or upon, related to the occupancy of, remaining in or emanating from residential premises or commercial/industrial premises, including garbage, trash, refuse, paper, rubbish, ashes, industrial wastes, demolition and construction wastes, discarded home and industrial appliances, manure, vegetable or animal solid or semisolid wastes, and other solid and semisolid wastes, as defined in Public Resources Code Section 49503, excluding liquid wastes and abandoned vehicles; provided however, that "solid waste" shall not include hazardous waste. Notwithstanding the foregoing, residential solid waste shall not include items greater than four (4) feet in length, eighteen (18) inches in diameter, or more than sixty (60) pounds in weight.
(z) Solid Waste Container.
"Solid waste container" shall mean any vessel, tank, receptacle, box or bin used or intended to be used for the purpose of holding solid waste for collection.
(aa) Standard Solid Waste Container.
"Standard solid waste container" shall mean a state-of-the-art bin or refuse container used in connection with commercial industrial premises with a two (2), three (3), four (4), six (6) or eight (8) cubic yard capacity, designed for mechanical pick-up by collection vehicles and equipped with a lid, or where appropriate for the commercial/industrial premises being served, a fifteen (15), twenty-five (25) or forty (40) cubic yard roll-off body or compactor, and shall include other types of containers suitable for the storage and collection of commercial/industrial refuse if approved in writing by the City Administrator.
(bb) Standard Residential Solid Waste Container.
"Standard residential solid waste container" shall mean a container made of metal, hard rubber or plastic with a capacity of forty-five (45) gallons and a weight of no more than sixty (60) pounds when placed for collection. Well secured, unpunctured, heavy plastic bags may also serve as standard residential refuse containers, provided they weigh no more than sixty (60) pounds when placed for collection.
(Ord. 91-956 § 2; Ord. 91-959 § 1)