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FAMILY One or more persons living together in one dwelling unit and maintaining a common household, including domestic servants and gratuitous guests, together with boarders, roomers or lodgers not in excess of the number allowed by Chapter 511, Zoning, of this Code as an accessory use.

FILL MATERIAL Any material, including but not limited to earth, rocks and gravel, which is used for filling a hole, depression or landfill.

FLOODWAYS A channel provided for the excess flow of a stream.

GARBAGE Any putrescible animal and vegetable wastes, kitchen refuse or table scraps resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food. This term does not include regulated material.

GENERAL FUND An account for all financial resources of the City of Buffalo except those required to be accounted for in another fund, including an enterprise fund.

GENERATION Any act or process of bringing into being, origination or production of waste.

GLASS New and used glass, used mostly for food and beverage containers, which have been rinsed and are free of food contamination. This term includes clear (flint), green and brown (amber) colored glass bottles. This term does not include ceramics, plate glass, auto glass, Pyrex, leaded glass, mirrored glass or flat glass or regulated material.

GOVERNMENTAL AGENCY Any federal, state, local or foreign government, political subdivision, municipality, court, department, agency or other entity, body, organization or group exercising any executive, legislative, quasi-judicial, regulatory or administrative function of government.

GRUBBING The process of clearing ground of roots and stumps by digging them up, clearing real property by digging or breaking up the soil.

HAZARDOUS MATERIAL Any material which is designated by the Commissioner or another governmental agency and which, when transported in commerce in a particular amount and form, may pose an unreasonable risk to health and safety or property. This term includes but is not limited to explosive material, radioactive material, etiologic agent, flammable or combustible liquid or solid, poison, oxidizing or corrosive material and compressed gas.

HAZARDOUS WASTE Any waste or a combination of wastes, which, because of its quantity, concentration or physical, chemical or infectious characteristics, may cause or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible or incapacitating reversible illness or may pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly treated, stored, transported or disposed of or otherwise managed. This term includes but is not limited to explosive material, high-level or low-level radioactive material, toxic substances, solid waste generated from the treatment, storage or disposal of hazardous waste and those substances which the Commissioner of Public Works or other governmental agencies h...

HEALTH COMMISSIONER The County Health Commissioner of the County Department of Health, as defined in § 1-14 of this Code.

HIGH-GRADE PAPER Any high-quality paper, including but is not limited to letterhead paper, bond paper, typing paper, copier paper, notepad paper, writing paper, envelopes without glassine windows, other nonglossy office paper without plastic, computer printer paper, computer printout paper, computer tab cards, onion skin paper and other high-quality paper. This term does not include wax paper, plastic- or foil-coated paper, styrofoam, wax-coated food and beverage containers, carbon paper, blueprint paper, cardboard or paper which has been contaminated by food or soiled by any substance other than water or regulated material.

HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL Any highly radioactive material resulting from the reprocessing of spent nuclear material, including but not limited to liquid waste produced directly in reprocessing, any solid material derived from such liquid waste that contains fission products in sufficient concentrations and other highly radioactive material.

IMPACT AREA The area within a circumference of a one-fourth-mile radius from the point or points of emission of an odor from an establishment. To qualify as an impact area, at least 20% of the area within the circle drawn must include land designated for a residential use by Chapter 511, Zoning, Articles IV through and including VIII of this Code.

INCOMBUSTIBLE MATERIAL Any material which is not apt to catch fire, not capable of burning or can not properly be disposed of in an incinerator by routine combustion methods. This term includes but is not limited to metal cans, bottles, floor-sweepings, crockery or glass, ashes, products of combustion and all other incombustible waste. This term does not include earth, sand, lumber, brick, stone, concrete, plaster or other substances that may accumulate as a result of building, construction or repair operations and manure.

INDUSTRIAL WASTE Regulated material which is generated by or originates in and around industrial processes and manufacturing operations or occurs as a result of any industrial activity. This term includes but is not limited to solids, such as solidified chemicals, paints or pigments, the end or by-products of incineration ash, foundry sand and dredge spoil; contained gaseous materials; hazardous waste; and any liquid, sludge, septage, solid, semisolid substance or contained gaseous material in which any of the foregoing is intermixed or absorbed or onto which any of the foregoing is adhered. This term does not include refuse originating from the commercial user's office operations or vegetative yard waste resulting from tree or landscaping services.

INFECTIOUS AGENTS Organisms which cause disease or have an adverse health impact on human beings or animals.

INFECTIOUS WASTE Any waste which has been exposed to or is comprised of infectious agents and must, therefore, be isolated as required by environmental law or governmental agencies. This term includes but is not limited to equipment, instruments, utensils and fomites (any substance that may harbor or transmit pathogenic organisms) of a disposable nature from the rooms of patients who are suspected to have or have been diagnosed as having a communicable disease; laboratory wastes, such as pathological specimens (e.g., all tissues, specimens of blood elements, excreta and secretions obtained from patients or laboratory animals) and disposable fomites attendant thereto; and surgical operating room pathologic specimens and disposable fomites attendant theret...

INSTITUTIONAL SOLID WASTE All solid waste which is generated by or originated in and around educational, health-care, correctional, hospitals, public, charitable, philanthropic and religious institutions and other institutional facilities. This term does not include regulated material.