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COMMERCIAL SOLID WASTE All solid waste which is generated by, originating in or around a commercial user. This term does not include regulated material.

COMMERCIAL USER Any person who owns or occupies a parcel of land in the City of Buffalo which is designed for or occupied by the use other than a one-, two- or three-family residential use. This term includes but is not limited to multiresidential complex, government properties, institutional properties, industrial properties, parking lots, parking garages and parking ramps.

COMMERCIAL USER COLLECTION PROGRAM Any recycling program for commercial users other than the multiresidential complex program.

COMMISSIONER The Commissioner of Street Sanitation or designee.

CONSTRUCTION/DEMOLITION DEBRIS Material resulting from the construction, excavation, renovation, equipping, remodeling, repair and demolition of structures, property and roads and material consisting of vegetation resulting from land clearing and grubbing, utility line maintenance and seasonal and storm-related cleanup. This term includes but is not limited to bricks, concrete and other masonry material, soil, rock, wood, wall coverings, plaster, drywall, plumbing fixtures, nonasbestos insulation, roofing shingles, asphaltic pavement, glass, plastics, electrical wiring and components, carpeting, foam padding, linoleum and metals that are incidental to construction, excavation, renovation, equipping, remodeling, repair or demolition.

CONTAMINANT Any physical, chemical, biological or radiological substance or matter that makes impure, infects, corrupts or otherwise contaminates another substance or the environment.

CORRUGATED CARDBOARD Any cardboard which is usually smooth on both sides with a corrugated center and commonly used for boxes. This term does not include material with wax coating or regulated material.

CURBLINE The area between the sidewalk and the street curb, used for deposit of solid waste for collection pursuant to this chapter.

CURBLINE PROGRAM Recycling programs pursuant to this chapter and regulations thereunder for source separation of recyclable material and other solid waste for collection, and the collection and disposal of the separated recyclable material and other solid waste. This term includes but is not limited to residential user collection, multiresidential complex collection and commercial user collection programs.

DEAD ANIMALS Animal carcasses or parts thereof; and animals or parts thereof that have died which are not otherwise hazardous, infectious, regulated medical waste or regulated material. This term does not include the following: animal carcasses or parts thereof from slaughterhouses; animal carcasses or parts thereof specifically prohibited by this chapter, rule or regulation of the Commissioner or other law; bodies of human beings or parts thereof.

DEPARTMENT The Department of Street Sanitation unless otherwise specified herein.

DISCARD To abandon or recycle.

DISCARDED MATERIAL All material which is abandoned, recycled or inherently wastelike.

DISPOSAL Any abandonment, discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking or placing of any waste into or on any land or water so that such waste may enter the environment or be emitted into the air or discharged into any waters, including groundwaters. This term includes the thermal destruction of waste and the burning of such waste as fuel for the purpose of recovering useable energy.

DUMPING To place, deposit, leave, litter, throw, cast or otherwise dump waste.

DWELLING UNIT One or more rooms, in a building or portion thereof designed or used exclusively as the residence or sleeping place of one or more persons, designed for occupancy by one family for cooking, living and sleeping purposes, as defined in Chapter 511, Zoning, of this Code.

ENVIRONMENT Any water, water vapor, land surface or subsurface, air, fish, wildlife, biota and other natural resources.

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW Any and all statutes, laws, ordinances, rules, regulations, permits, licenses, orders and/or directives of any governmental agency, now or hereafter in effect, relating to the protection of the environment or governing or regulating the use, storage, treatment, generation, transportation, processing, handling, abandoning, production or disposal of or release of any chemical, substance, waste, pollutant or contaminant.

ESTABLISHMENT Any commercial, manufacturing or industrial operation conducted on real property or premises.

EXPLOSIVE MATERIAL Any solid or liquid substance which acts by chemical reaction to liberate, at high speed, heat and gas and create tremendous pressure. An explosive substance, especially one used to produce an explosive effect.