For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
CONSTRUCTION SITE. Any residential, commercial, industrial, or other area, lot, or site which construction or demolition of any type is conducted including roads at buildings, and at all other places actively being constructed, demolished, renovated, or repaired.
CONSTRUCTION WASTE. Solid waste that is produced or generated during construction, demolition, remodeling, or repair of pavements, houses, commercial buildings, and other structures. CONSTRUCTION WASTES include, but are not limited to lumber, wire, sheet rock, broken brick, shingles, glass, pipes, concrete, paving materials, and metal and plastics if the metal or plastics are a part of the materials of construction or empty containers for such materials. Paints, coatings, solvents, asbestos, any liquid, compressed gases or semi-liquids and garbage are not CONSTRUCTION WASTES.
DISCARD. To abandon, dispose of, burn, incinerate, accumulate, store or treat before or instead of being abandoned, disposed of burned or incinerated.
DISCARDED MATERIAL. A material that is abandoned, disposed of, burned, incinerated, accumulated, stored or treated before or instead of being abandoned, disposed of, burned or incinerated.
DISPOSE. To discharge, deposit, inject, dump, spill, leak or place any solid waste into or on any land or water so that the solid waste or any constituent of it may enter the environment or be emitted into the air or discharged into any waters.
FIRE-WOOD. A product used for the production of heat in residential uses where the logs are cut-split-stacked and in ready condition for use. When used as herein defined FIRE-WOOD is not deemed as litter.
LITTER. Any organic or inorganic waste material, rubbish, refuse, garbage, trash, hulls, peelings, debris, grass, weeds, leaves and branches, ashes, sand, gravel, slag, brickbats, metal, plastic, and glass containers, broken glass, dead animals or intentionally or unintentionally discarded materials of every kind and description. LITTER shall also include the discarding or disposal of personal property on or adjacent to a sidewalk or road right of way during the course of serving or executing a writ of restitution or other court order which requires the removal of personal property from a building.
NUISANCE. Any use of premises or of building exteriors which is detrimental to the property of others, is a public health, safety or welfare concern, or which causes or tends to cause substantial diminution in the value of other property in the neighborhood in which such premises is located. This includes but is not limited to the keeping of the following: ashes, rubbish, garbage, lumber, bricks, cinder blocks, insulation materials, building debris, refuse, litter, or waste of any kind whether liquid or solid.
PERSON. Any individual, corporation, association, firm, receiver, guardian, trustee, executor, administrator, fiduciary, representative, or group of individuals or entities of any kind.
PUBLIC or PRIVATE PROPERTY. Any real property, whether improved or unimproved.
RECEPTACLE. A container that is specifically designed, constructed, and placed for use as a depository for litter or solid waste.
REFUSE. All solid waste products having the character of solids rather than liquids and that are composed wholly or partially of materials such as garbage, trash, rubbish, litter, residues from clean up of spills or contamination, or other discarded materials.
RUBBISH. Combustible or slowly putrescible discarded materials, which include but are not limited to trees, wood, leaves, trimmings from shrubs or trees, printed matter, plastic and paper products, grass, rags, and other combustible or slowly putrescible materials not included under the term garbage.
SANITARY WASTE or DOMESTIC WASTE or DOMESTIC SEWERAGE. Water borne, human or animal excreta or body wastes and normal culinary, laundry, and washing wastes.
SOLID WASTE or WASTE. Any garbage, refuse, rubbish, trash, or other discarded material, but does not include solid or dissolved materials in domestic sewage, solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return flows, industrial discharges, or special nuclear or by-product materials.
VILLAGE. The Village of Birch Run.
(Ord. 03-2007, passed 1-28-2008)