For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates, or requires, a different meaning.
APPROVED CONTAINER. A 96-gallon container, or other approved size, provided by the contractor with wheels and a lid for the collection of acceptable solid waste, and a 65-gallon container provided by the contractor with wheels and a lid for the collection of solid waste or recycling.
APPROVED SUBCONTRACTOR. An agent, or subcontractor, of the contractor specifically authorized, and approved, by the city to collect solid waste and recycling materials in the city.
BULKY WASTE.
(1) Waste to include furniture, appliances, metal items, or larger items not normally collected from the weekly residential collection programs.
(2) Items not considered BULKY WASTE include construction materials, tires, paint, hazardous waste, pesticides, appliances containing Freon, and any item specified as excluded waste.
CITY. The City of Cave Springs, Arkansas.
COMMERCIAL WASTE. Solid waste generated by a commercial or industrial establishment, a multiple residential unit, business, residential construction, or combined units of businesses that streamline waste into consolidated containers that typically generate more than two cubic yards of solid waste per week, or an agricultural customer, meaning any customer owning ten acres, or more, of land for agricultural use who chooses not to be a residential waste customer.
CONTRACTOR. The sanitation company approved by the city for residential solid waste and/or recycling services.
EXCLUDED SOLID WASTE. Includes, but is not limited to, medical waste, construction and demolition waste (except in roll-off containers), large bulky items, appliances, batteries, paint, items containing an engine or compressor, items containing CFCs or PCBs (such as white goods), and any radioactive, volatile, flammable, explosive, toxic, or hazardous substance or material, including any substance listed, or characterized, as toxic or hazardous by any applicable federal, state, or local law.
EXTRAORDINARY MATERIALS. Hazardous wastes, body wastes, dead animals, abandoned vehicles, vehicle parts, large equipment, and parts thereof.
EXTRA SOLID WASTE or EXTRA BAGS. Any solid waste that will not fit inside the provided container.
FRANCHISE FEE. Four percent of the total collected receipts from the collection of residential or commercial waste in the city which is payable to the city, as provided by the agreement between the contractor and the city for the collection of residential solid waste or by the collection of commercial solid waste within the city.
GARBAGE. The same as SOLID WASTE.
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS. Wastes that are hazardous by reason of their pathological, explosive, radiological, or toxic characteristics, or by virtue of their being defined as hazardous by any state, or federal, law or regulation.
RESIDENTIAL or RESIDENTIAL UNIT. An occupied dwelling within the corporate limits of the city occupied by a person, or group of persons compromising not more than four families or units who reside in the same dwelling. A RESIDENTIAL UNIT shall be deemed occupied when either water or domestic light and power services are being supplied thereto.
RESIDENTIAL WASTE. Solid waste generated by residences, as well as businesses, that generate less than two cubic yards of solid waste per week.
SOLID WASTE. All putrescible, and non-putrescible, waste in solid, or semisolid, form, including, but not limited to, garbage, rubbish, ashes, or incinerator residue, or street refuse, but excluding yard waste, extraordinary materials, hazardous materials, and special materials, as defined herein.
TRASH. The same as, and shall be defined as, SOLID WASTE.
UNIT. Residence, business, or industry within the city that generates solid waste, and other materials, that must be disposed.
YARD WASTE. Grass clippings, mulch, brush, tree limbs, leaves, sticks, or any other item derived from a once-living tree, or plant species.
(2021-17, passed 6-28-2021)