As used in this Chapter:
(a) "Asbestos-Containing Waste Materials" means those waste identified in Chapter 3734-20-01(b)(4) of the Ohio Administrative Code (OAC).
(b) "Approved Refuse Bag" shall mean only the special plastic refuse bags, which have been pre-approved by the City's Refuse Contractor, and which subscribers may purchase from the approved local retailers.
(c) "Commercial Operator": A person, firm or corporation which owns or operates stores, restaurants, industries, institutions and other similar places, including multi-family dwellings or multi-family residential structures containing four or more dwelling units. Commercial Operators are not required to subscribe to the City of Chardon Refuse Contractor's service.
(d) "Container" means an approved container or receptacle into which trash materials are placed by producers. All such receptacles are subject to standards set and approved by the City Manager.
(e) "Contract" means the Contract between the City of Chardon and a single solid waste hauler for the exclusive right to collect residential refuse in the City of Chardon.
(f) "Contractor" means the Refuse Contractor and/or the Recycling Contractor, as authorized by the Council and under contract with the City of Chardon for the exclusive collection of residential refuse and recycling materials.
(g) "Curbside" means that portion of the right-of-way adjacent to paved or traveled streets or rights-of-way, including the end of a driveway, curb line or alley line.
(h) "Garbage" means all putrescible waste (except human excreta, sewage and other water carried waste, including vegetable and animal offal and carcasses of dead animals) and shall include all such substances from all public and private establishments and from all residences.
(i) "Hazardous Waste" means substances which, singularly or in combination, pose a significant present or potential threat to human health or to the environment, and which singularly or in combination, require special handling, processing or disposal because they are or may be flammable, explosive, reactive, corrosive, toxic, carcinogenic, bio-concentrative or persistent in nature, potentially lethal, or an irritant or strong sensitizer.
(j) "Holidays". The following shall be holidays for purposes of solid waste garbage and rubbish collection: New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. The Refuse Contractor shall not collect solid waste garbage and rubbish on the Holidays but shall start collection the day immediately following the Holiday and continue its operation during the same week of the Holiday until all solid waste, garbage and rubbish collection is complete.
(k) "Multi-family residence or apartment" means the four or more billing units (dwelling units/residential units) in one structure.
(l) "Occupied Residential Unit": A residential unit shall be deemed occupied when water utility service is supplied thereto.
(m) "Pickup Location" is the agreed location where the Subscriber shall place the container for pickup by the Refuse Contractor.
(n) "Premises" means the land or buildings or both, occupied by a householder or a commercial operator.
(o) "Producer" means an occupant of a residential unit who generates trash and/or recyclable material.
(p) "Solid Waste" means such unwanted residual solid or semi-solid materials that are the result of industrial, commercial, agricultural and community operations (excluding earth or material from construction, mining or demolition operations; waste materials of the type that would normally be in demolition debris, non-toxic fly ash, spent non-toxic foundry sand and slag and other substances) that are not harmful or inimical to public health, and includes but is not limited to, garbage, combustible and non-combustible material, street dirt and debris. Solid waste does not include tires, "infectious waste", "hazardous waste", "asbestos waste" or material defined under "recyclable material". The definition of solid waste shall include all garbage and rubbish as defined herein. Note: "infectious waste" is not defined.
(q) "Subscriber" means a City resident or owner of rental property in the City who is required to have trash collected by the Refuse Contractor and includes a "Producer".
(r) "Residential Unit" defines the properties whose owners shall become Subscribers and which are required by the terms of the single hauler trash Contract to have their garbage and rubbish collected.
(s) "Recyclable Material" refers to recyclable materials in the form of glass, aluminum and steel containers, magazines, phone books, junk mail, mixed paper, newspaper, #1 and #2 plastics, and cardboard designated for removal from a residential or apartment unit. Additional recyclable materials may be designated by mutual agreement of the Recycling Contractor and the City Manager.
(t) "Residential Unit" shall include an owner-occupied and/or rented single family dwelling, duplex, triplex, boarding house or other similar structures with one or more residential units under a common roof. A "Residential Unit" is a facility used or intended to be used by a single family for living, sleeping, cooking and eating purposes. Non-Residential Units are all units not defined above and are not required to subscribe to the Refuse Contractor's service. All occupied Residential Units are required to have their garbage collected by the Refuse Contractor.
(u) "Rubbish" means ashes, glass, crockery, tin cans, paper, boxes, rags and old clothing and all other similar non-putrescible wastes. The term "rubbish" shall not include any material such as earth, sand, brick, stone, plaster or other similar substances resulting from construction or demolition operations. For the purpose of this definition, "material resulting from construction operations or demolition operations" are those items affixed to or part of the structure being constructed or demolished, such as brick, concrete, stone, glass, wall board, framing and finishing lumber, roofing materials, plumbing, plumbing fixtures, wiring and insulation, but excludes materials the removal of which have been required prior to demolition.
(v) "Semi-solid material" does not contain liquids which can be readily released under normal climatic conditions as determined by Methods 9095 (Paint Filter Liquids Test) in SW-846: "Test Methods for Evaluating Solid Wastes, Physical/Chemical Methods".
(w) "Trash" means the component of Solid Waste that includes garbage and rubbish as defined herein but does not include recyclable materials.
(x) "City Manager" means the City Manager appointed by the Council or designee.
(y) "Refuse Contractor" means the Contractor under contract with the City of Chardon to collect solid waste, garbage and rubbish.
(z) "Recycling Contractor" means the Contractor under contract with the City of Chardon to collect recyclable materials. Depending on contract awards, the Refuse Contractor and the Recycling Contractor may be the same entity.
(aa) "Yard Waste" means leaves, grass clippings, weeds, bushes, brush, branches and branch clippings.
(Ord. 3055. Passed 2-14-19.)