For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BULKY WASTE. Large items of solid waste such as household appliances, furniture, machinery, automobiles, large auto parts, trees, branches, stumps, and other oversized waste, both combustible and noncombustible, whose large size precludes or complicates their handling by normal waste collection and disposal methods.
COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENT. Any retail, wholesale, institutional, religious, governmental, service establishment or other nonresidential establishment which may generate garbage, litter or other solid waste.
COMMERCIAL SOLID WASTE. Solid waste generated by stores, offices, restaurants, warehouses, and other non-manufacturing activities.
CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION WASTE. Solid waste resulting solely from construction, remodeling, repair, or demolition operations on buildings, other structures, but does not include inert debris, land-clearing debris, yard debris, used asphalt, asphalt mixed with dirt, sand, gravel, rock, concrete, or similar nonhazardous material.
CONSTRUCTION OR DEMOLITION. When used in connection with waste or debris, means solid waste resulting solely from construction, remodeling, repair or demolition operations on pavement, buildings or other structures.
CONVENIENCE CENTER. Facilities owned, leased, rented or otherwise operated by Davie County at which refuse, garbage, other solid waste or recyclables are collected, transported or disposed of. These centers are fenced and are attended by County employees under set operational schedules for the disposal of solid waste or acceptable recyclables from authorized households within Davie County.
DEBRIS. The remains of, or pieces and parts of destroyed buildings, automobiles, machinery, furniture and other non-putrescible solid waste, combustible and noncombustible.
DEMOLITION PITS. A pit approved and licensed by the State Department of Human Resources, Division of Health Services for stumps, limbs, and demolition waste not acceptable or too large for the county landfill.
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 continuant thereof may enter the environment or be emitted into the air or discharged into any waters, including groundwaters.
GARBAGE. All putrescible solid waste, including vegetable matter, animal offal, carcasses of animals, and recognizable industrial byproducts, but excluding human body waste and animal manure. Used milk cartons or other discarded food containers shall be included in this definition.
HAZARDOUS WASTE. A solid waste, or combination of solid wastes, which because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics may:
(1) Cause or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible or incapacitating reversible illness; or
(2) Pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly treated, stored, transported, or disposed of, or otherwise managed.
HEALTH DIRECTOR. County Health Director or his or her duly authorized representative.
INDUSTRIAL SOLID WASTE. Solid waste generated by industrial processes or manufacturing that is not hazardous waste.
INERT DEBRIS. Solid waste that consists solely of material that is virtually inert and that is likely to retain its physical and chemical structure under expected conditions of disposal such as brick, concrete, rock and clean soil.
INSTITUTIONAL SOLID WASTE. Solid waste generated by educational, health care, correctional, and other institutional facilities.
JUNK DEALER. Any person who is licensed to operate a junkyard as specified in the Zoning Chapter regulating junkyards and JUNK DEALERS.
LAND-CLEARING DEBRIS. Solid Waste that is generated solely from landclearing activities such as stumps, trees, etc.
MEDICAL WASTE. Any solid waste which is generated in the diagnosis, treatment or immunization of human beings or animals, in research pertaining hereto, or in the production or testing of biologicals, but does not include any hazardous waste, radioactive waste or those substances excluded from the definition of solid waste.
OPEN BURNING. Any fire wherein the products of combustion are emitted directly into the outdoor atmosphere and are not directed thereto through a stack or chimney, incinerator, or other similar devices.
OPEN DUMP. A solid waste disposal site which is not a sanitary landfill or an incinerator.
PERSON. Any individual, firm, governmental unit, organization, partnership, corporation, company, or other legal entity.
PREMISES. Each single residential dwelling unit housed in a building used for residential purposes, or mobile home, or a structure used for residential purposes on any property. PREMISES also means each unit contained in any structure serving a separate owner, tenant, or lessee, or used for any purpose other than residential.
PUTRESCIBLE. Solid waste capable of being decomposed by mirco-organisms with sufficient rapidity as to cause nuisances from odors or gases, such as kitchen wastes, offal and animal carcasses.
RESIDENTIAL HOUSEHOLD GARBAGE. All putrescible waste, including food waste and non-putrescible waste both combustible and non-combustible, originating from residences, including paper, cardboard, plastic or metal food or household chemical containers, wood objects, glass, bedding, crockery, metals, and other similar objects or materials, but specifically excluding bulky waste, animal offal and carcasses.
RUBBISH. Non-putrescible solid wastes. Rubbish contains both combustible and noncombustible materials such as paper, cardboard, tin cans, yard waste, wood, glass, bedding, crockery, metals and similar objects and materials.
REFUSE. Solid waste, other than garbage or ashes from residences, commercial establishments and institutions.
SANITARY LANDFILL. A method of disposing of solid waste on land in a sanitary manner without creating nuisances or hazards to public health or safety by utilizing the principles of engineering to confine the solid waste to the smallest practical area, to reduce it to the smallest practical volume, and to cover it with a layer of compacted earth at the conclusion of each day's operation or at such more frequent intervals as may be necessary.
SCRAP METAL. Discarded steel, ferrous, copper and other metallic articles generated from residential, commercial, and industrial sources such as bedsprings, machiner, auto parts, lighting fixtures, shelving units and similar units.
SCRAP TIRE. A tire that is no longer suitable for its original, intended purpose because of wear, damage or defect.
SHARPS. Needles, syringes and scalpel blades.
SOLID WASTE. Any hazardous or non-hazardous garbage, refuse, sludge from a waste treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility and other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semisolid, or containing gaseous material resulting from industrial, institutional, commercial, and agricultural operations, and from community activities. Such term does not include:
(1) Fowl and animal fecal waste;
(2) Solid or dissolved material in:
(a) Domestic sewage and sludges generated by the treatment thereof in sanitary sewage disposal systems which have a design capacity of more than 3,000 gallons or which discharge effluents to the surface waters;
(b) Irrigation return flows; and
(c) Wastewater discharges and the sludges incidental thereto and generated by the treatment thereof which are point sources subject to permits granted under § 402 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended (Pub. L. No. 92-500), being 33 U.S.C. § 1342, and permits granted under G.S. § 143-215.1 by the Environmental Management Commission.
(3) Oils and other liquid hydrocarbons controlled under G.S. Chapter 143, Article 21A;
(4) Any radioactive material as defined by the State Radiation Protection Act, G.S. §§ 104E-1 through 104E-23; or
(5) Mining refuse covered by the State Mining Act, G.S. §§ 74-46 through 74-68, and regulated by the State Mining Commission (as defined under G.S. § 143B-293.1).
SOLID WASTE COLLECTOR. Any person who collects and transports solid waste.
SPOILED FOOD. Any food which has been removed from sale by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, State Department of Agriculture, Food and Drug Administration, or any other regulatory agency having jurisdiction in determining that food is unfit for consumption.
UNSANITARY ACCUMULATION. Any amount of solid waste which is odoriferous, pestiferous or otherwise threatening to human health as determined by the Health Department.
WHITE GOODS. Inoperative and discarded refrigerators, ranges, water heaters, freezers and other similar domestic and commercial large appliances.
YARD TRASH. Solid waste solely consisting of vegetative matter resulting from landscaping maintenance, including glass clippings.
(1996 Code, § 50.01) (Ord. passed 5-6-1985; Ord. passed 10-3-2016)