For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
AVAILABILITY FEE. Rates, fees, and charges imposed, or caused to be imposed, by the county pursuant to the provisions of G.S. § 153A-292(b) for the availability of the solid waste disposal facilities.
COUNTY. Davie County, a political subdivision of the state.
DESIGNATED FACILITY. A permitted solid waste disposal facility or facilities serving the designated geographic area as more specifically set forth in § 50.42(A) and as the same may be amended from time to time by the county, and to which it is required by this chapter that all solid waste generated within the designated geographic area that is placed in the wastestream for disposal be transported in order to be disposed of at such solid waste disposal facility.
DESIGNATED GEOGRAPHIC AREA. An area approved and designated as the county’s DESIGNATED GEOGRAPHIC AREA by the State Department of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources, and as the same may be amended by the Department from time to time, as a specified geographic area within which all solid waste generated and placed in the wastestream for management is required to be delivered to the designated facility.
DISPOSAL. The discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking, or placing of any solid waste into, or on, any land so that such solid waste or any constituent thereof may enter the environment or be emitted into the air or discharged into any water, including groundwaters.
INCORPORATED AREAS. The area located within the municipal boundaries of any of the municipalities.
INTERLOCAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT. Agreements of the same title entered into between the county and municipalities.
MUNICIPALITY. A municipal corporation located within the county.
PERSON. An individual, corporation, company, association, partnership, unit of local government, authority, state agency, federal agency, or other legal entity.
RECYCLING. The process by which recovered resources are transformed into new products in such a manner that the original products lose their identity.
SERVICE AREA. The incorporated areas and the unincorporated areas within the county.
SOLID WASTE. Any SOLID WASTE, as defined in G.S. Chapter 130A, resulting from the operation of residential, commercial, industrial, federal, state, special district, other governmental or institutional establishments that would normally be collected, processed, and disposed of through a public or private solid waste management service. SOLID WASTE does not include hazardous waste or solid waste from mining or agricultural operations as defined in G.S. Chapter 130A. SOLID WASTE also does not include trees, shrubbery, bushes, or any other like foliage, limbs, or any other portion of trees, shrubbery, bushes or any like foliage, wood products of any sort, leaves, mulch, grass, and any similar substance removed from commercial and residential yards, lots, and areas.
SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL FACILITIES. Any and all facilities owned, operated, or designated by county, permitted by the State Department of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources, if applicable, and used in the collection, transportation, management, processing, or disposal of solid waste, including but not limited to recycling facilities, composting facilities, volume reduction plants, sanitary landfills, resource recovery facilities, and transfer stations. Subsequent to October 9, 1993, such facility, if a sanitary landfill, must also meet the requirements of the regulations set forth in 40 C.F.R. § 258, including 258.40 (Subpart D), enacted pursuant to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 6901 et seq.
SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT. Purposeful, systematic management control of the storage, transport, separation, treatment, processing, recycling, recovery, and disposal of solid waste.
SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT PLAN. A solid waste management plan approved by the State Department of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources.
TIPPING FEES. Rates, fees, and charges imposed by the authority for the use of the solid waste disposal facilities, whether such rates, fees, or charges are imposed at such solid waste disposal facilities or through other billing mechanisms.
UNINCORPORATED AREAS. The area lying within the boundaries of the county, but does not include any area lying within the boundaries of any municipality located within the county.
UNIT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT. A county, city, consolidated city-county, sanitary district, or other local political subdivision, authority, or agency of local government, within the county.
(1996 Code, § 50.38) (Ord. passed 1-18-1994)