929.02 DEFINITIONS.

   As used in the this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings ascribed herein:

   (a)   "Billing unit" means a room or group of rooms located within a dwelling, forming a single habitable unit with facilities used or intended to be used by a single family for living, sleeping, cooking and eating purposes.

   (b)   "Subscriber" means all individuals residing and/or located within the City of Aurora, in either a residential unit, multi-family residence or apartment, who are required by the terms of this chapter to have their garbage and rubbish collected.

   (c)   "Residential unit" includes a single-family dwelling, duplex, triplex, quadplex or other building with one or more billing units grouped under a common roof and with direct access to a public street.

   (d)   "Multi-family residence" or "apartment" means the grouping together of five or more billing units under a common roof.

   (e)   "Solid waste" means such unwanted residual solid or semi-solid materials as results from industrial, commercial, agricultural and community operations, excluding earth or material from construction, mining or demolition operations, or other waste materials of the type that would normally be included in demolition debris, non-toxic fly ash. spent non-toxic foundry sand, and slag and other substances that are not harmful or inimical to public health, and includes, but is not limited to garbage, tires, combustible and noncombustible material, street dirt and debris. Solid waste does not include any material that is an "infectious waste", a "hazardous waste", an "asbestos waste" or material defined under "recycle material".

         For the purpose of this definition, "material from construction operations or demolition operations" are those items affixed to the structure being constructed or demolished, such as brick, concrete, stone, glass, wall board, framing and finishing lumber, roofing materials, plumbing, plumbing fixtures, wiring and insulation but excludes materials whose removal has been required prior to demolition.

         For the purpose of this definition, semi-solid material does not contain liquids which can be readily released under normal climatic conditions as determined by Methods 9095 (Paint Filter Liquids Test) in SW-846: "Test Methods for Evaluating Solid Wastes, Physical/Chemical Methods".

   (f)   "Garbage" means all putrescible waste, except human excreta, sewage and other water-carried wastes, including vegetable and animal offal and carcasses of dead animals and shall include all such substances from all public and private establishments and from all residences.

   (g)   "Rubbish" means ashes, glass, crockery, tin cans, paper, boxes, rags and old clothing and all other similar nonputrescible wastes. The term "rubbish" shall not include any material such as earth, sand, brick, stone, plaster or other similar substances that may accumulate as a result of construction or demolition operations.

   (h)   "Yard waste" means leaves, grass clippings, weeds, holiday trees, bushes and brush and branch clippings, when securely bound in bundles not exceeding four feet in length and eighteen inches in diameter, and weighing no more than fifty pounds, or placed in yard waste containers, as specified in the City's contract.

   (i)   "Hazardous waste" means those substances which, singularly or in combination, pose a significant present or potential threat or hazard to human health or to the environment, and which singularly or in combination, require special handling, processing or disposal because they are or may be flammable, explosive, reactive, corrosive, toxic, carcinogenic, bioconcentrative or persistent in nature, potentially lethal or an irritant or strong sensitizer.

   (j)   "Asbestos" means the asbestiform varieties of sepentinite (chrysotile), riebeckite (crodiodolite), cummintonite-grunerite, anthophyllite and actinolitremolite.

   (k)   "Asbestos-containing waste materials" means those wastes identified in Chapter 3745-20-01(B)(4) of the Ohio Administrative Code (OAC).

   (l)   "Infectious waste" means those wastes identified in Chapter 3745-27-01(V) of the Ohio Administrative Code (OAC).

   (m)   "Director" means the Director of Public Service of the City.

   (n)   "Coordinator" means the Recycling Coordinator of the City.

   (o)   "Recycling bin" means a storage unit provided by the City or its Contractor in which recyclable materials are to be place and commingled by the occupants of each billing unit, unless served by other storage units. Such bins must meet the requirements of the Director and the Coordinator and will be specified in the City's Contract.

   (p)   "Recycling Contractor" means the Contractor authorized by the City for the collection of recyclable materials.

      (Ord. 1992-221. Passed 11-25-92.)