For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
CITY. The elected and/or designated official, authorized agent, or employee of the City of Flandreau, lying within Moody County, South Dakota, assigned to carry out the enforcement of this subchapter.
CONSTRUCTION DEBRIS and DEMOLITION DEBRIS. Waste building materials resulting from construction, remodeling, repair, and demolition operations on pavements, houses, commercial buildings, and other structures.
DISPOSAL. The discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking, or placing of solid waste into or on the land so that the solid waste or any of its constituents may enter the environment, be discharged to any waters including groundwater, or be emitted into the air.
ELECTRONIC DEVICES. Includes, but not exclusively limited to, such items as desktop and laptop computers, monitors, mainframe computers, battery backup uninterruptible power supplies, printers, scanners, copy machines, fax machines, televisions, microwaves, toasters, video cassette recorders, laser disc players, digital video disc players, stereo receivers, video game consoles, MP3 players, cellular phones, radios, and digital and electronic cameras.
FAMILY DOMESTIC UNIT. Any single independent family unit irrespective of the number of persons constituting such family but shall not include a situation where more than one family lives together in any single residence or abode. In such situation, each of the independent families shall be deemed and regarded as a separate and distinct FAMILY DOMESTIC UNIT. Each independent family unit living in a multiple dwelling residence, apartment house or any type of residence, including trailer houses, shall each be deemed a FAMILY DOMESTIC UNIT for the purposes of this subchapter. A rooming house that supplies lodging only for hire and which does not serve meals to any lodgers and does not permit cooking and eating on the premises shall be deemed a FAMILY DOMESTIC UNIT for the purposes of this subchapter.
GARBAGE. Solid and semisolid putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling, preparing, cooking, storing, serving, and consuming of food and material intended for use as food and all offal, excluding useful industrial by-products, from all public and private establishments and from all residences.
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS. Solid waste and/or combination of solid waste which, because of the quantity, the concentration, or the physical or chemical or infectious characteristics, may cause, or significantly contribute to, an increase in mortality; an increase in serious, irreversible, or incapacitating reversible illness; or pose a substantial, present, or potential hazard to human health or to the environment when improperly treated, stored, managed, transported or disposed of. HAZARDOUS WASTE does not include radioactive material or mining wastes which are exempt pursuant to federal or state law.
HOUSEHOLD GARBAGE. Includes such items as refuse, sweepings, cleanings, trash, litter, and domestic solid waste. HOUSEHOLD REFUSE shall not include any household hazardous waste, as defined by state or federal regulations.
LITTER. Garbage, rubbish, waste material, or animal waste improperly disposed of by discarding, abandoning, allowing to accumulate, scattering, or depositing the same outside an approved container.
PLASTIC. Any synthetic material made of polymeric organic compounds and additives that can be shaped by flow.
RECREATIONAL FIRE. Any fire other than the fire described as a refuse fire or incinerator fire, but not limited to fireplaces, grills, fire pits, or other burning approved by the underwriter’s laboratory and fueled by wood, wood pellets, grain, newspaper, natural or propane gas, or any other combustible material used in the preparation of food or enjoyment of an open flame.
REFUSE. Putrescible and non-putrescible wastes including, but not limited to, garbage, rubbish, ashes, incinerator ash, incinerator residues, street cleanings, market and industrial solid wastes, and sewage treatment wastes in dry or semisolid form.
RESTRICTED USE LANDFILL. A permitted solid waste disposal site that receives certain non-putrescible waste limited to yard debris, garden vines, trees, scrap lumber, untreated wood products, and similar type wastes and permits the temporary storage of white goods and waste tires.
RUBBLE. Includes such items as stone, brick, concrete, or similar inorganic material.
TREES. Trunks, limbs, stumps, shavings, or branches from trees or shrubs.
WHITE GOODS. Includes such major residential and commercial appliances as air conditioners, clothes dryers, clothes washers, dishwashers, freezers, kitchen ranges, refrigerators, and water heaters.
WASTE OIL. Any oil after use that is contaminated through storage or handling before the oil is recycled.
WASTE TIRES. Tires that are no longer suitable for their original intended purpose because of wear, damage, or defect.
YARD DEBRIS. Includes such items as grass, lawn clippings, and leaves.
(Prior Code, § 16.1.1)