For the purpose of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings ascribed to them by this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning, as follows:
means a metal container used at a residential property which is intended to store discarded materials until collection day, and which includes a locking mechanism to prevent bear access.
means a container with a hinged and tight-fitting lid and wheels designed to be mechanically serviced by a commercial collection vehicle, and that is designed to hold from one to six cubic yards of material with the lid properly closed.
means large items of solid waste such as appliances, furniture, auto parts, trees and other oversize waste.
means a thin, stiff, pasteboard made of paper pulp, used for making cartons and signs.
means a thick, heavy covering for a floor, usually made of wool, or synthetic fiber.
means a plastic container with a hinged and tight-fitting lid and wheels that is serviced by an automated or semi-automated collection vehicle, is provided by the city's franchisee, and which has a capacity of at least 20 and not more than 95 gallons, and is used for collection of solid waste, recyclable materials, or organic materials from commercial or residential premises.
means the complete operation of gathering together and transporting to the point of disposal or processing any solid waste, recyclable, bulky item, or organic waste materials.
means the fees established as provided by law for the collection, disposal, and processing of discarded materials.
means a container supplied by the franchisee to any person subscribing or receiving solid waste service and constructed of metal, plastic or other suitable material in such a fashion as to be watertight.
means that portion of any building or other premises which is not a residence, residential unit or housekeeping unit.
means any container which has a compaction mechanism, whether stationary or mobile.
means materials generated by or resulting from construction or demolition-related activities, including building, construction, deconstruction, demolition, excavation, grading, improvement, land clearing, reconstruction, remodeling, and renovation, such as discarded building materials, packaging, debris, and rubble resulting from construction, alteration, remodeling, repair, or demolition operations on pavements, excavation projects, houses, commercial buildings, or other structures, excluding excluded waste.
includes rocks, soils, tree remains, and other yard trimmings which result from land clearing or land development operations in preparation for construction.
means a city-approved receptacle for collection of solid waste, recyclable materials, or organic materials and includes bins, carts, compactors, open-top roll-off boxes, customer owned containers, and drop boxes.
means as near, but in no event more than five feet from, the property line that abuts a paved public street or in the event the property does not abut a paved public street, where the property abuts a public street, alley, right-of-way or easement and in the case of a commercial location in the service alley of a commercial or institutional entity.
means a 20- to 32-gallon plastic can owned by the owner or occupant and used for the collection of additional recyclable materials or organic materials or for collection of solid waste in a bear box.
means recyclable materials, organic materials, and solid waste placed by a customer in a container for the purposes of collection.
means the complete operation of disposing of solid waste.
means a container with a capacity of 10 to 40 cubic yards that is serviced by a roll-off collection vehicle.
means food intended for human consumption.
means hazardous substance, hazardous waste, infectious waste, designated waste, volatile, corrosive, biomedical, infectious, biohazardous, and toxic substances or material, waste that the city or franchisee reasonably believes would as a result of or upon disposal be a violation of local, state, or federal law, regulation, or ordinance, including land use restrictions or conditions, waste that cannot be disposed of in class III landfills, waste that in the city's or franchisee's reasonable opinion would present a significant risk to human health or the environment, cause a nuisance or otherwise create or expose the city or franchisee to potential liability; but not including de minimis volumes or concentrations of waste of a type normally found in residential solid waste after implementation of programs for the safe collection, recycling, treatment, and disposal of batteries and paint in compliance with Sections 41500 and 41082 of the California Public Resources Code, as may be amended from time to time. Excluded waste does not include used motor oil and filters, or household batteries when properly placed for collection.
means an entity that engages in the collection or receipt of edible food from commercial edible food generators and distributes that edible food to the public for human consumption either directly or through other entities, including food banks, nonprofit charitable organizations, and nonprofit charitable temporary food facilities, as defined in Section 18982(a) of Title 14 of the California Code of Regulations, as may be amended from time to time.
means a person or entity that collects and transports edible food from a commercial edible food generator to a food recovery organization or other entities for human consumption, as defined in Section 18982(a) of Title 14 of the California Code of Regulations, as may be amended from time to time.
means food scraps, including fruits, vegetables, meat, poultry, seafood, shellfish, bones, rice, beans, pasta, bread, cheese, and eggshells.
means any person that has entered into a franchise agreement with the city to collect, remove, transport, process or dispose of solid waste or recyclables or compostables, or to operate any solid waste facility.
means any substance or mixture that, if improperly handled, may be damaging to human health and well-being or a threat to the environment. HHW includes but is not limited to flammables, combustibles, poisons, toxics, oxidizers, corrosives, compressed gas, oil, antifreeze, explosives and radioactive materials as well as any other hazardous waste as defined in California Health and Safety Code Section 25117 and the Hazardous Waste Management Reform Act of 1995.
is any quantity of improperly discarded solid waste, including but not limited to discarded furniture and appliances, overflowing residential and commercial trash cans, pieces of lumber and scrap metal left at a construction site, uncontainerized paper such as fast food packages, candy wrappers, cigarette butts, and/or plastic, glass, trash, debris, rubbish, refuse, garbage or junk parts and scrap materials.
is the improper discarding, dropping or scattering of small quantities of waste matter ordinarily carried on or about the person, including but not limited to beverage containers and enclosures, packaging, wrappers, wastepaper, newspapers and magazines, in any place other than a place or container maintained for the lawful disposal thereof, including waste matter which escapes or is allowed to escape from a vehicle, container, receptacle or package.
means that waste which is generated or produced, as a result of the diagnosis, treatment, or immunization of human beings or animals, in research pertaining thereto, or in the production of testing of biological products, including but not limited to the accumulation of property containing home-generated sharps waste.
means two or more residential units located in a single building or a unified group of buildings, and shall include, but not be limited to, two or more units located in a planned unit development, an apartment complex or a mobile home park.
means the existence or accumulation, without the authority of the city of South Lake Tahoe, of litter, trash, manure, rubbish, scrap materials, junk parts, garbage, or refuse of any kind upon private or public property; provided, however, that said refuse is visible to the occupants of an adjacent or nearby parcel or real property, or to the users of any right-of-way.
means waste containing material originating from living organisms and their metabolic waste products, including food, green material, landscape and pruning waste, organic textiles and carpets, lumber, wood, paper products, printing and writing paper, manure, biosolids, digestate, and sludges, as defined in Section 18982(a)(46) of Title 14 of the California Code of Regulations, as may be amended from time to time.
shall conclusively be deemed to be the person to whom the taxes on the property assessed as shown on the last equalized assessment roll of the county or, alternatively, from such other records of the county assessor or tax collector as contain more recent information.
means materials which are reused or processed or are in the future reused or processed into a form suitable for reuse through reprocessing or remanufacture, consistent with the requirements of the California Integrated Waste Management Act. The term "recyclable material" includes paper newsprint, printed matter, pasteboard, paper containers, cardboard, glass, aluminum, PET, HDPE, and other plastics, beverage containers, transformable and compostable materials, used motor oil, automotive batteries, antifreeze, latex paint, brick and stone in reusable size and condition, and such other material designated by the city council, or designated as recyclables by the California Integrated Waste Management Board, or other agency with jurisdiction.
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.
means a second offense violation of this chapter occurring within one year at the same site.
means a room or combination of rooms in a single building designed for human living, sleeping, eating and sanitary uses by a single family and their servants and nonpaying guests, and having cooking facilities. There may be more than one residential use in a single building. A mother-in-law unit is considered an additional residential unit.
means all nonputrescible waste matter, whether combustible or noncombustible, except hazardous waste and medical waste.
means any device having acute rigid corners, edges, or protuberances capable of cutting or piercing, including, but not limited to, hypodermic needles, hypodermic needles with syringes, blades, needles with attached tubing, syringes contaminated with biohazard waste, acupuncture needles, and root canal files. Broken glass items, such as Pasteur pipettes and blood vials contaminated with biohazard waste or any item capable of cutting or piercing that is contaminated with trauma scene waste.
means a dwelling which receives individual solid waste and/or curbside recycling service.
means solid waste as defined in California Public Resources Code, Division 30, Part 1, Chapter 2, Section 40191 and implementing regulations. Excluded from the definition of solid waste are excluded waste, C&D, source-separated recyclable materials, edible food if it is recovered and not discarded, source-separated organic materials, and radioactive waste.
Solid waste includes salvageable materials only when such materials are included for collection in a solid waste collection container not source-separated from solid waste at the site of generation.
means nonputrescible material, including paper, books, magazines, cardboard, box board, plastic, metal, glass, and other similar materials authorized by the city for collection by the franchisee that is separated by the generator from other waste material for the purpose of reuse or recycling, by placing the recyclables in separate containers, or by binding them separately; the recyclable material is returned 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.
means any designated wastes, as defined in 23 California Code of Regulations, Section 2522, and special handling waste generated by industrial facilities or processes, but shall not include "hazardous waste" as defined herein. "Special wastes" shall include asbestos, sewage sludge, water treatment sludge, drilling mud, grease waste, contaminated soils, shredder waste, agricultural waste, filter cake/dewatered sludge, spent catalyst fines, refinery ash and byproducts; except where any such wastes are deemed to be hazardous waste.
means a supermarket with gross annual sales of $2,000,000 or more, grocery store with a total facility size equal to or greater than 10,000 square feet, food service provider, food distributor, or wholesale food vendor, as defined in Section 18982(a) of Title 14 of the California Code of Regulations, as may be amended from time to time.
means a restaurant with 250 or more seats or a total facility size equal to or greater than 5,000 square feet, hotel with an on-site food facility and 200 or more rooms, health facility with an on-site food facility and 100 or more beds, large venue, large event, state agency with a cafeteria with 250 or more seats or total facility size equal to or greater than 5,000 square feet, and local education agency with an on-site food facility, as defined in Section 18982(a) of Title 14 of the California Code of Regulations, as may be amended from time to time.
means those facilities, franchised by the city of South Lake Tahoe pursuant to this chapter, utilized to receive solid waste or recyclable material, temporarily store, separate, convert, or otherwise process the materials in solid wastes or to transfer the solid wastes directly from smaller to larger vehicles for transport.
means a type of organic waste including green trimmings, grass, weeds, leaves, prunings, branches, dead plants, brush, tree trimmings, dead trees, small pieces of unpainted and untreated wood, and other types of organic waste resulting from normal yard and landscaping maintenance.
(Ord. 409 § 1; Ord. 536 § 1; Ord. 921 § 1; Ord. 1157 § 1; Ord. 1187 § 1; Code 1997 § 23-1)