For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context indicates or requires a different meaning.
ALLEY. A public passageway affording a secondary means of access to abutting property for utility and emergency vehicles.
ASHES. All residue from the burning of any combustible material but does not include ashes from medical waste, hazardous wastes or special waste.
AUTOMATED CONTAINED SOLID WASTE COLLECTION SYSTEM. A contained solid waste collection system that utilizes town-specified solid waste containers and a solid waste collection vehicle equipped with a lifting device.
COLLECTOR. The municipality or its authorized representative.
COMMERCIAL SERVICE UNIT. Any building, structure or premises not defined as a RESIDENTIAL SERVICE UNIT or an INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE UNIT in this section.
COMPACTOR or ROLL-OFF SYSTEM. A contained solid waste collection system that uses a stationary solid waste compactor and compactor bins or open top roll-off boxes.
CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION SOLID WASTE. All solid waste, building materials, rubble, soil and spoils resulting from construction, remodeling, repair and demolition operations.
CONTAINED SOLID WASTE. All garbage and trash generated and placed in containers for disposal.
DEPARTMENT. The Town of Florence Public Works Department.
DIRECTOR. The Town Manager or designee.
DWELLING UNIT. Any structure or structures used primarily for human habitation by one or more persons.
FLY-TIGHT. The lid of the container must fit flush around all contact points and prevent entry of flies or rodents.
GARBAGE. All putrescible waste, except sewage and body waste, including waste accumulated of animals, food or vegetable matter, and including waste that attends the preparation, use, cooking, dealing in or storing of meat, fish, fowl, fruit and vegetable, and shall include all the wastes or accumulations or vegetable matter of residence, restaurants, hotels and places where food is prepared for human consumption. The term GARBAGE shall not include recognized industrial byproducts. Swill, offal and any accumulation of spoiled, partially or fully decomposed, rotting or discarded animal, vegetable or other matter that attends the preparation, handling, consumption, storage or decay of plant and animal matter including meats, fish, fowl, buds, fruits, vegetables or dairy products and their waste wrappers or containers.
HAZARDOUS WASTE. Any waste so defined by the provisions of A.R.S. Title 49, Chapter 5, Art. 2 and 40 C.F.R. part 261 and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB's).
HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE. Any waste that would otherwise be a hazardous waste pursuant to A.R.S., Title 49, Chapter 5, Art. 2, and 40 C.F.R. part 261 but is excluded as a hazardous waste because it is generated by the normal day-to-day activities of households.
IMMINENT HEALTH or SAFETY HAZARD. Condition of real property, solid waste or recycling container that places a person’s life, health, safety or property in high risk of peril when the condition is immediate, impending on the point of happening and menacing.
INCIPIENT HAZARD. Condition of real property that can become an imminent or health hazard if further deterioration occurs that can cause unreasonable risk of death or severe personal injury.
INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE UNIT. Any school or educational facility; any government building or facility whether belonging to the town, Pinal County, the State of Arizona or the United States; any jail or prison facility whether privately or publicly owned; any religious institution; any publicly owned medical facility and the buildings and facilities of any nonprofit organization.
INFECTIOUS SOLID WASTE. Any material which presents a significant danger of infection because it is contaminated with or may reasonably be expected to be contaminated with agents which cause or significantly contribute to the cause of increased infection or infectious disease in human beings.
INSPECTOR. The authorized employee or employees of the municipality having the duty of the enforcement of this chapter.
MOBILE HOME DEVELOPMENT. A subdivision designed for mobile homes in which the lots are individually owned.
MOBILE HOME PARK. Property owned and operated for the purpose of leasing or renting out mobile home space to tenants.
MULTI-FAMILY DWELLING UNITS. A building or buildings attached to each other and containing two or more dwelling units. This term is intended to apply to dwelling unit types such as duplex, triplex, four-plex and apartments.
NONCOMBUSTIBLE SOLID WASTE. Consists of miscellaneous solid waste materials that are unburnable at ordinary incinerator operating temperatures (up to 2,000°F) and is in the inorganic component of solid waste.
NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION. Any entity recognized by the Internal Revenue Service as having § 501(C)(3) status, or other tax exempt organizations however described.
OBNOXIOUS MATERIALS. Any solid waste that, when exposed, is unpleasant or offensive to the senses due to its odor or condition.
OWNER. A person, persons or legal entity listed as current title holder as recorded in the official records of the County Recorder's office. OWNER and OCCUPANT may be used interchangeably and shall mean every person in possession, charge or in control of any dwelling, flat, rooming house or any eating place, shop, place or business establishment where garbage or other refuse is created or accumulated.
PERSON. Any natural person; any corporation, partnership or other legal entity; and the United States, State of Arizona, County of Pinal and Town of Florence.
PLACEMENT DATE. The first day of the scheduled collection period, as established and published by the Director.
PREMISES. Land, building or other structures, or parts thereof, where solid waste is stored or accumulated.
PRIVATE SOLID WASTE COLLECTION HAULERS. Solid waste collection services owned and operated by private individuals or corporations holding a business license issued by the town.
PUBLIC NUISANCE. Anything which is injurious or obnoxious to health, or is offensive to the senses, or is an obstruction to the free use of property, so as to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property by any considerable number of persons, or which obstruct the free passage or use, in the customary manner, of any street, alley, sidewalk or public property.
PUTRESCIBLE SOLID WASTE. Solid waste which is capable of being decomposed by microorganisms with sufficient rapidity as to cause nuisances from odors or gases and capable of providing food for or attracting birds, insects, snakes, rodents or animals capable of transferring a diseased bacterium or virus from one organism to another.
RECYCLABLES. Any solid waste that has been separated from other solid waste for the purpose of being collected and recycled.
RECYCLING CONTAINER. A receptacle used exclusively for the storage of recyclables until they are collected.
REFRIGERANTS. Chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) and hydrochloroflourocarbons (HCFC).
REFUSE. Solid wastes, including garbage and rubbish.
RESIDENTIAL SERVICE UNIT. Any single family or multi-family dwelling unit; any apartment building or apartment complex; any townhouse or condominium; and any other building or structure regardless of type which is used primarily for human habitation. RESIDENTIAL SERVICE UNIT does not include facilities for the detention or incarceration of prisoners.
RESPONSIBLE PARTY. An occupant, lessor, lessee, manager, licensee, owner or other person having control over a structure or parcel of land and in the case where remediation is proposed as a means of abatement, any lien holder whose lien interest is recorded in the official records of the County Recorder's office.
RUBBISH. Refuse other than garbage, tin cans, bottles, ashes, paper, pasteboard or wooden boxes, brush, leaves, weeds and cuttings from trees, lawns, shrubs and gardens or other waste materials produced in the normal course of everyday living.
SCHOOLS. All public and private buildings used for pre-school, elementary, specialized or higher education purposes.
SMALL ANIMAL WASTE. Refuse including feces and/or discarded bedding or flooring materials such as straw, sawdust or paper from yards, kennels, dog or cat runs, chicken pens, aviaries or other containment for domestic animals such as dogs, cats, fowl such as birds, chickens, ducks, geese or other tame or permitted wild animals under 150 pounds.
SOLID WASTE. Any garbage, bulk trash, yard waste and other materials or products, including putrescible and non-putrescible wastes, organic and inorganic wastes, combustible and noncombustible wastes and liquid non-hazardous waste, but not including hazardous waste or human body parts.
SOLID WASTE CONTAINER. A receptacle used exclusively for the storage of solid waste, excluding construction and demolition solid waste until it is collected.
SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL FACILITY. Any site owned, operated or utilized by any person for the collection, source separation, storage, transportation, transfer, processing, treatment or disposal of solid waste.
SOLID WASTE FEE. A fee assessed by the town for solid waste services provided by the Public Works Department and associated functions.
TIRE. A tire used on vehicles, trailers, machinery or equipment used on or off the road, excluding bicycles and mopeds.
TOWN OF FLORENCE. The Town of Florence, Arizona.
WATERTIGHT. The lid of the container must fit flush around all contact points and prevent entry of rain.
WASTE. Unwanted solid, liquid or gaseous materials.
YARD WASTE. Branches, palm fronds, twigs, weeds, leaves, grass and vegetation clippings.
(Prior Code, Ch. 18, Art. IV, § 18-235) (Ord. 346-04, passed 6-21-2004; Ord. 604-13, passed 12-2-2013)