For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings given herein, unless their use in the text of this chapter clearly demonstrates a different meaning:
ABANDONED VEHICLE: A vehicle that applicable state laws deem to have been abandoned.
ADMINISTRATIVE AGENCY: The agency or public entity of this county charged with the administrative management of this chapter.
AGRICULTURAL SOLID WASTE: The solid waste that results from the rearing and slaughtering of animals and the processing of animal products and orchard and field crops.
ASBESTOS: The asbestiform varieties of serpentine (chrysotile), riebeckite (crocidolite), cummingtonite-grunerite, anthophyllite, actinolite-tremolite, and libby amphibole.
ASBESTOS- CONTAINING MATERIAL: A material containing more than one percent (1%) asbestos by weight or volume.
BULKY WASTE: Items whose large size precludes or complicates their handling by normal collection, processing or disposal methods.
BULKY WASTE COLLECTION SITE: A site designated by the district for collection of bulky waste. Hours of operation set by the district.
COLLECTION: The act of removing solid waste from the central storage point or at the source of generation.
COLLECTION STATION: A site at which solid waste is concentrated after delivery by the person generating the solid waste and before processing or disposal.
COMMERCIAL SOLID WASTE: Solid waste generated by stores, offices and other activities that have a standard industrial code number greater than 5200, as determined by the Utah state tax commission and do not actually turn out a product.
COMPUTATION OF TIME: The time within which an act is required by law to be done shall be computed by excluding the first and including the last day; except then when the last day falls on Sunday or a legal holiday, then the act may be done on the next succeeding day which is not Sunday or a legal holiday. When a public office in which an act, required by law, is to be performed is closed to the public for the entire day which constitutes the last day for doing such act, or before its usual closing time on such day, then such act may be performed on the next succeeding day which is not a Sunday or a legal holiday.
DEAD ANIMALS: Animals that have died from any cause, except those slaughtered for human consumption.
DIRECTOR: That person designated by the waste management service district no. 5, which is responsible for the administrative management of this chapter.
DISPOSAL: The orderly process of discarding useless or unwanted material.
DISTRICT: The waste management service district no. 5.
DUMP: A land site where solid waste is disposed of in a manner that does not protect the environment.
ENERGY RECOVERY: The obtaining of energy available from the heat generated when solid waste is incinerated.
ENFORCEMENT AGENCY: The agency of this county charged with the enforcement of those aspects of this chapter related to the protection of the public safety, health, welfare and environment.
GENERATION: The act or process of producing solid waste.
HAZARDOUS WASTE: A solid waste or combination of solid wastes which, because of it 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 (see section R450-2-1.2 of the Utah administrative rules).
HOME SCRAP: Scrap that never leaves the manufacturing operation and is routinely reprocessed. Also referred to as revert scrap, millbroke or turnaround scrap, and is not intended to infer the same as residential wastes or junk.
INCINERATION: The controlled process by which solid, liquid or gaseous combustible wastes are burned and changed into gases, and the residue produced contains no combustible materials.
INCINERATOR: An engineered apparatus used to burn waste substances and in which all the factors of combustion, temperature retention time, turbulence and combustion air, can be controlled.
INDUSTRIAL SCRAP: Scrap that is generated during the manufacture of a product.
INDUSTRIAL SOLID WASTE: Solid waste that results from industrial processes and manufacturing that have a standard industrial code between 0 and 5199, as determined by the Utah state tax commission.
INSTITUTIONAL SOLID WASTE: Solid waste originating from educational, healthcare and research facilities.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT: A public corporation, created by government for political purposes, and having subordinate and local powers of legislation: e.g., a county, town, city, etc., or combination thereof.
NATURAL RESOURCES: Materials which have useful physical or chemical properties which exist, unused, in nature.
PERSON: Any individual, partnership, copartnership, firm, company, public or private corporation, municipal corporation, political subdivision, association, joint stock company, trust, estate or any other legal representative, agent or assigns.
POLLUTION: The condition caused by the presence in the environment of substance of such character and in such quantities that the quality of the environment is impaired or rendered offensive to live.
PROCESSING: Any method, system or other treatment designed to change the physical form or chemical content of solid waste.
RECOVERED RESOURCES: Materials which still have useful physical or chemical properties after serving a specific purpose and can, therefor, be reused or recycled for the same or other purposes.
RECOVERY: The process of obtaining material or energy resources from solid waste. Synonyms: extraction, reclamation, salvage.
RECYCLING: The process by which recovered resources are transformed into new products in such a manner that the original products lose their identity.
RENDERING: A process of recovering fatty substances from animal parts by heat treatment, extraction and distillation.
REPROCESSING: The action of changing the condition of a secondary material.
RESIDENTIAL SOLID WASTE: All solid waste that normally originates in a residential environment. This definition is applicable to any and all condominium units, without consideration of the number of condominium units within a building.
RESIDENTIAL USER: Any person generating residential solid waste who is connected to any public utility, including water, sewer, electrical or natural gas. The owner of property connected to the public utility shall be deemed to be the person generating residential solid waste, even though the property has been rented, leased or otherwise allowed to be used by other tenants.
REUSE: The reintroduction of a commodity into an economic stream without any change in its physical characteristics.
SALVAGE: The utilization of waste materials.
SANITARY LANDFILL: A site where solid waste is disposed of using sanitary landfilling techniques.
SANITARY LANDFILLING: An engineered method of disposing of solid waste on land in a manner that protects the environment by spreading the waste in thin layers, compacting it to the smallest practical volume, and covering it with soil by the end of each working day.
SCAVENGING: The uncontrolled removal of materials at any point in solid waste management.
SCRAP: Discarded or rejected material or parts of material that result from manufacturing operations and are suitable for reprocessing or recycling.
SECONDARY MATERIAL: A material that is utilized in place of a primary or raw material in manufacturing a product.
SEPARATION: The systematic division of solid waste into designated components.
SOLID WASTE: Any garbage, refuse, sludge, including sludge from a waste treatment plant, water supply treatment plant or air pollution control facility, or other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semisolid or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining or agricultural operations and from community activities, but does not include solid or dissolved material in domestic sewage or in irrigation return flows or discharges for which a permit is required under Utah Code Annotated title 19, chapter 5, as amended, or under the federal water pollution control act, 33 USC section 1251 et seq.
SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT: The purposeful, systematic control of the generation, storage, collection, transport, separation, processing, recovery and disposal of solid waste.
STORAGE: The interim containment of solid waste, in an approved manner, after generation and prior to ultimate disposal.
TRANSPORT: The movement of solid waste subsequent to collection. (Ord. 93-03, 8-2-1993, eff. 10-1-1993; amd. Ord. 2011-02, 6-24-2011; 2015 Code; Ord. 2021-01, 2-16-2021)