A. "Collector" wherever herein used means the City or its authorized representative.
B. "Garbage" means and includes all putrescible waste, except sewage and body waste, including waste accumulated of animal, food or vegetable matter, and including waste that attends the preparation, use, cooking, dealing in or storing of meat, fish, fowl, fruit and vegetable, and shall include all of such wastes or accumulations or vegetable matter of residences, restaurants, hotels and places where food is prepared for human consumption. The term "garbage" shall not include recognized industrial byproducts.
C. "Encapsulate" means either of the following two methods:
1. Placement of medical sharps in a rigid, puncture-proof, leakproof container with a locking cap, after rendering them incapable of creating a stick hazard by using an encapsulation agent or any other process that renders them incapable of creating a stick hazard; or
2. Grinding such that the medical sharps are incapable of creating a stick hazard and are unrecognizable.
D. "Green waste" means brush, leaves, weeds, and cuttings from trees, lawns, shrubs, and gardens.
E. "Inspector" means the public works director or his/her designated employee or employees of the City having the duty of the enforcement of this chapter.
F. "Landfill" means the Casa Grande Municipal Landfill at its present and any future locations.
G. "Landfill disposal" shall mean the delivery of green waste, refuse, rubbish, and waste to the Landfill by the Landfill user(s) or his/their agent(s).
H. "Landfill user" or "user," which terms shall be used interchangeably, shall mean each owner or occupant subject to this chapter, or a person who disposes refuse or causes to be disposed refuse in the Landfill.
I. "Medical sharps" shall mean discarded sharps used in animal or human patient care, medical research, or clinical laboratories. This includes hypodermic needles; syringes; pipettes; scalpel blades; blood vials; needles attached to tubing; broken and unbroken glassware; and slides and coverslips.
J. "Owner" and "occupant," which terms herein are used interchangeably, shall mean every person in possession, in charge or in control of any dwelling, flat, roominghouse, or any eating place, shop, place of business, manufacturing or business establishment where garbage or other refuse is created or accumulated.
K. “Person” means a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association, society, or other legal entity, as well as a natural person.
L. “Refuse” means solid wastes, including garbage and rubbish.
M. “Residence” means any structure or premises used as a domicile, dwelling, or habitation, including single-family dwellings, multifamily dwelling units, duplexes, patio homes, mobile home parks, trailer courts, rooming houses, boardinghouses, assisted living facilities, apartments, condominiums, townhouses, or any complex of the foregoing.
N. “Residential refuse” means any refuse generated by a residence.
O. “Roll on/roll-off” means that method of container hauling where large capacity refuse containers are loaded into the transporting vehicle by tipping the rear rails, hauling the container onto rails by a cable pulley system and tipping the rear rails back to the horizontal position.
P. “Rubbish” means refuse other than garbage, tin cans, bottles, ashes, paper, pasteboard, cardboard, or wooden boxes, brush, leaves, weeds, and cuttings from trees, lawns, shrubs, and gardens or other waste materials produced in the normal course of everyday living.
Q. "Specially treated solid waste" means and includes solid waste defined as medical waste, biohazardous medical waste, and special waste in Arizona Revised Statutes ("A.R.S.") Title 49, Chapter 4, and the Arizona Administrative Code, Title 18, Chapter 13.
R. “Waste” means unwanted solid, liquid or gaseous materials. (Ord. 1397.08.23 § 1, 2010; Ord. 1397.08.16 1 (part), 2004; Ord. 1397.08.13 § 1 (part), 2002; Ord. 645.17 § 2 (part), 1989; prior code § 11-1-1)