(1) Purpose: The public highways, as well as public and private lands adjacent to said public highways, leading to the various solid waste disposal sites in Canyon County are being littered with paper, cans, bottles and trash of every description because a small number of the people transporting solid waste to solid waste disposal sites are not properly covering or securing their loads and are thereby allowing solid waste of all kinds to blow, fall and scatter from the vehicles transporting the solid waste. It is the purpose of this section and the duty of the board of county commissioners to require that all persons hauling garbage, refuse, rubbish, tree limbs, trash or solid waste of any kind, provide a proper cover and secure their load so as to prevent the scattering, blowing or loss of the materials being so transported. This section is enacted pursuant to authority given to the board of county commissioners by article 12, section 2, of the Idaho constitution which authorizes the county to make and enforce within its limits all such local policies, sanitary and other regulations as are not in conflict with the general laws, and Idaho Code section 31-714 which empowers the board of county commissioners to pass all ordinances and rules and make all regulations, not repugnant to law, necessary for carrying into effect or discharging the powers and duties conferred by the laws of the state of Idaho, and such as are necessary or proper to provide for the safety, promote the health and prosperity, improve the morals, peace and good order, comfort and convenience of the county and the inhabitants thereof, and for the protection of property therein.
(2) Definitions: The following definition of terms shall apply to this section:
BURN BARREL: Any barrel, vat, tub, or other container used to burn or incinerate garbage, refuse, rubbish, solid waste, semisolid waste or trash.
GARBAGE: Putrescible waste resulting from the storage, processing, distribution, preparation, cooking and serving of food and wastes from the handling, processing, storage, distribution and sale of products.
REFUSE: Garbage, rubbish and animal carcasses.
RUBBISH: All nonputrescible solid waste except abandoned vehicles and car bodies or car body parts, industrial solid waste and agricultural solid waste.
SOLID WASTE: As defined in section 02-03-05: of this article.
SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL SITE 1 : The only lawful site(s) for the dumping and depositing of solid waste in Canyon County shall be at those areas designated at Pickles Butte in Canyon County, Idaho, or any other site specifically approved by the board of county commissioners.
TRASH: Includes papers, bottles, nails and refuse of all kinds not otherwise described or referred to herein.
(3) Prohibited: It shall be unlawful for any person hauling garbage, refuse, rubbish or trash of any kind upon the public highways of Canyon County outside the corporate limits of any municipality within Canyon County to haul garbage, refuse, rubbish or trash without covering and securing such garbage, refuse, rubbish or trash in such a manner as to prevent scattering or blowing or loss of the material being so transported. (Ord. 05-011, 4-6-2005)
Notes
1 | 1. See also section 02-03-01: of this article. |