For the purpose of this chapter, the following terms, words and phrases are defined as follows:
ACT: The California integrated waste management act of 1989 1 and all regulations adopted under said act, as may be amended from time to time.
BUY BACK FACILITY: A facility which receives source separated materials for a fee.
CITY: The city of Corcoran.
COMPOST: The product resulting from the controlled biological decomposition of organic wastes that are source separated from the municipal solid waste stream or which are separated at a central facility.
COMPOSTING FACILITY: A permitted solid waste facility at which composting is conducted and which produces compost, excluding private residences engaged in composting for their own purposes.
CONTAINERIZED SERVICE: Service wherein the city or its contract collector provides a vehicle equipped for the mechanical handling of one, two (2), or three (3) cubic yard containers with casters. Such containers shall be furnished by the city or its contract collector.
CONTRACT COLLECTOR: Any person who provides solid waste collection and disposal service to residential, commercial, or industrial premises under contract with the city.
COUNCIL: The city council of the city of Corcoran.
CURBSIDE COLLECTION: The collection of solid waste from a location adjacent to the street or alleyway.
GREENWASTE: Grass, clippings, weeds, leaves, small branches, sod, lumber without nails, plants and sawdust.
GREENWASTE CONTAINERS: A container or containers approved by the public works director and identified solely for the use of disposal of "greenwaste" as defined herein.
KWRA: The Kings waste and recycling authority, a joint powers agency consisting of the county of Kings and the cities of Corcoran, Hanford, and Lemoore.
LANDFILL: A disposal site at which solid waste is deposited and compacted before burial in a specially prepared area which provides environmental monitoring and treatment.
PERSON: An individual, firm, association, partnership, public or private corporation, company, organization, political subdivision, governmental agency, trustee, receiver or any other entity whatsoever.
PREMISES: A tract or parcel of land with or without habitable buildings or appurtenant structures.
PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR: The public works director of the city of Corcoran.
RECYCLABLES: Solid waste, including, without limitation, aluminum, glass bottles and jars, paper, newspaper, cardboard, plastic containers, tin and bimetal, white goods, greenwaste, yard or tree waste and other materials which can be processed and returned to the economic mainstream in the form of raw material for new, reused, or reconstituted products which meet the quality standards necessary to be used in the marketplace.
SERVICE AREA: The incorporated area of the city of Corcoran and those unincorporated portions of Kings County that have been designated by the Kings County board of supervisors or permitted by the Kings County public works department as areas where the city shall be responsible for the provision of utilities including solid waste collection.
SOLID WASTE: All putrescible or nonputrescible solid and semisolid waste including recyclables, refuse, garbage, rubbish, trash, decaying vegetable and animal matter, ashes, street refuse, industrial waste, swill, offal, tin cans, paper, medical solid waste and other offensive or nauseous substances excepting the following: agricultural solid waste, liquid carried industrial wastes, sewage or sewage hauled as an incidental part of a septic tank or cesspool cleaning service, medical waste, and hazardous or toxic waste as defined and regulated by federal, state or local laws and regulations.
SOLID WASTE COLLECTION SERVICE: Service furnished by the city of Corcoran or contract collector or a duly permitted collector for the collection and disposal of solid waste within the city and the areas provided service by the city in the county of Kings and hauling said waste to a facility for processing, transfer and disposal.
SOLID WASTE CONTAINERS: A regulation solid waste container or containers approved by the city.
SOLID WASTE FACILITY: A disposal site, buy back facility, material recovery facility (MRF), composting facility, transfer station, or a site that engages in any solid waste processing, or any facility specified in California Public Resources Code section 40194 and as amended from time to time. Solid waste facility shall include a commercial or industrial business conducting salvage of recyclables, but shall exclude private residences engaged in salvaging of recyclables for their own purpose.
SOLID WASTE PROCESSING: The reduction, separation, composting, recovery, salvage, conversion, or recycling of solid waste and any activity conducted in a solid waste facility.
SOLID WASTE PROCESSOR: Any person regularly engaged in the processing and/or recycling of solid waste. Solid waste processor includes a "buy back facility".
SOLID WASTE SEPARATION: The placement of recyclables in separate containers or bags, or the physical separation of recyclables from other solid waste. The term segregation shall be interchangeable with separation.
SOURCE SEPARATION: The separation or segregation of solid waste, at the place of generation or production of the wastes and resources for separate collection, processing, recycling, reuse, recovery or disposal.
SPECIAL HAUL: The collection of solid waste in excess of the maximum amounts of solid waste to be collected by the city at a single collection or any collection of any material not defined in this section as "solid waste".
SPECIAL WASTE: Solid waste which has characteristics which make it unsuitable for collection and/or processing by regular or routine methods. Such wastes will be collected and/or processed separately from the regular collection and procedures.
WALK IN SERVICE: Service where one solid waste container may be placed for collection not more than seventy five feet (75') from the curb face. Such service shall be limited to customers who are blind, disabled, or, for some physical reason, cannot move their container to the curb or alley. Such hardship cases will be reviewed and a decision made on an individual basis by the public works director. (Ord. 513, 11-21-1994; amd. 1996 Code; Ord. 551, 3-20-2001)
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