As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have these meanings ascribed to them:
Electronic equipment containing circuit boards and transistors, such as radios, stereos, televisions and computer components.[1]
Large items of refuse, including but not limited to furniture, auto parts and appliances such as washers, dryers, refrigerators, television sets, water heaters, mattresses, springs, logs and tree stumps.
Any person who, as a business enterprise, collects residential or commercial solid waste, from more than one household or any business or commercial establishment or industrial facility within the Town or otherwise transports or disposes of solid wastes collected from said sources or who performs any of these services for a fee.
Uncontaminated wastes resulting from construction, remodeling, repair and demolition of structures. These wastes shall include but not be limited to concrete, asphalt, stone, brick, block, wood, plaster, nonasbestos shingles and insulation, roofing materials and metals, plumbing fixtures, electrical wiring, but shall not include any hazardous wastes or any of said listed materials which contain, include or have been tainted or affected by toxic, hazardous or otherwise harmful elements, chemicals or materials.
Putrescible animal or vegetable waste resulting from the handling, storage, sale, preparation, cooking or serving of food.
Any waste or combination of wastes which because of its quantity, concentration or physical, chemical or biological characteristics possesses a substantial present or potential hazard to human or animal health or to the environment as determined by the Town Board or the Department of Environmental Conservation. Such waste shall include but not be limited to wastes which are bioconcentrative, highly flammable, explosive, highly reactive, toxic or poisonous, irritating, sensitizing, corrosive or infectious and shall include wastes that are solid, semisolid, liquid or gaseous. The final determination of whether or not a waste is hazardous shall be made by the Town Board and shall not be limited to those items or materials defined as hazardous by state and federal law, rule or regulation.
Household waste which, but for its point of generation, would be hazardous waste as defined by this chapter, including pesticides as defined in the New York State Environmental Conservation Law.
Solid waste generated by mining, manufacturing, or industrial processes. Such waste may include but is not limited to, the following manufacturing processes: electric power generation; fertilizer/agricultural chemicals; inorganic chemicals; leather and leather products; organic chemicals; plastics and resins manufacturing; pulp and paper industry; rubber and miscellaneous plastic products; stone, clay and concrete products; textiles; transportation equipment; and water treatment.
Any individual, firm, partnership, company, corporation, association, joint venture, cooperative enterprise, trust, municipality, government agency, societies, clubs, fraternal orders and any other entity or group of persons which is capable of being sued. In any provisions of this chapter prescribing penalties for noncompliance, the term “person” shall include the officers, directors, partners, managers, or persons in charge of a company, corporation, or other legal entity having officers, directors, partners, managers or other persons in charge.
Any person owning property or living on property located in the Town of Berne.
Any one or more of the following: combustibles, including, but not limited to, paper, cartons, boxes, barrels, wood, wood furniture and bedding; noncombustibles, including, but not limited to, metal, tin cans, metal furniture, small quantities of rock, concrete, glass, crockery, and other metal fixtures.
All putrescible and nonputrescible materials or substances, that are discarded or rejected as being spent, useless, worthless or in excess to the owners at the time of such discard or rejection, including, but not limited to, garbage, refuse, industrial and commercial waste, sludges from water treatment facilities, rubbish, tires, ashes, fuel and gaseous material containers, incinerator residue, construction and demolition debris and offal. The term shall not include solid or dissolved matter in domestic sewage or substances, materials in noncontainerized gaseous form, or other such items or materials excluded from the definition of solid waste pursuant to the regulations of the State of New York, Department of Environmental Conservation.
Any facility within the Town distinguished as a depository, holding or transfer point for solid wastes, including but not limited to sanitary landfills, transfer stations, recycling facilities, construction and demolition debris landfills, materials recovery facilities that are or shall be designated as such by any law, rule or regulation of the Town. This term shall also include those dumps or dumping grounds or approved waste excavation material disposal sites referred to in Article I of this chapter.
The Town of Berne.
Uncontaminated earth, sand, dirt and soil.
Any one or more of the following: tree branches, tree trunks, tree stumps, yard trimmings, leaves and garden waste.