As used in this chapter:
(a) “Composting” means the controlled biological decomposition of organic solid waste under aerobic conditions.
(b) “Construction and demolition debris” means those materials resulting from the alteration, construction, destruction, rehabilitation, or repair of any manmade physical structure, including, without limitation, houses, buildings, industrial or commercial facilities, or roadways. “Construction and demolition debris” does not include materials identified or listed as solid wastes or hazardous wastes in this chapter.
(c) “Garbage” means any putrescible animal or vegetable waste resulting from the handling, processing, preparation, cooking, and service of food.
(d) “Hazardous waste” means any waste or combination of wastes in solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous form that in the determination of the Director, because of its quantity, concentration, or physical or chemical characteristics, may do either of the following:
(1) Cause or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible or incapacitating reversible illness;
(2) Post a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or safety or to the environment when improperly stored, treated, transported, disposed of, or otherwise managed.
Hazardous waste includes any substance identified by regulation as hazardous waste under the “Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (RCRA)”, 90 Stat. 2806, 42 U.S.C.A. 6921, as amended, and does not include any substance that is subject to the “Atomic Energy Act of 1954", 68 Stat. 919, 42 U.S.C.A. 2011, as amended.
(e) “Infectious waste” as defined by Section 3734.01 of the Ohio Revised Code.
(f) “Licensed solid waste hauler” means any person engaged in commercial collection activities within the City of Galion, Ohio, who has been issued a license by the Galion City Board of Health to engage in said activity.
(g) “Nuisance” means any condition or use of premises, building, structure, or exterior, or any substance or material(s) which are or may become noxious, injurious, or dangerous to public health or safety.
(h) “Person” means any individual, firm, corporation, association, partnership, political subdivision, or other entity.
(i) “Premises” means any land, building, or structure on or in which solid waste may be placed, deposited, kept, accumulated, and/or stored.
(j) “Solid waste” means such unwanted residual solid or semisolid material as results from residential, industrial, commercial, agricultural, and community operations, and includes, but is not limited to: putrescible animal or vegetable wastes, resulting from the handling, processing, preparation, cooking, or serving of food; litter, garbage, junk, ashes, crockery, glass, plastics, textiles, old or discarded clothing, wood, cardboard, paper, and other wood pulp products, rubber, leather, old or scrap ferrous and nonferrous metals (aluminum, brass, copper, iron, steel, tin), wire, automobile parts, tires, batteries, household appliances, electronics, household furnishings, bedding, mattresses, carpet, padding, rugs, shingles, debris, street dirt, or anything else of an unsightly or unsanitary nature, regardless of being combustible or noncombustible material. Solid waste shall not include earth or material from construction, mining, or demolition operations, or other waste materials of a type that would normally be included in demolition debris, nontoxic fly ash, spent nontoxic foundry sand, and slag, and other substances that are not harmful or inimical to public health, and any material that is an infectious waste or a hazardous waste.
(k) “Vector” means any insect or arthropod, rodent, or other animal of public health significance capable of harboring or transmitting the causative agents of disease to humans.
(l) “Yard waste” means such materials as grass clippings, leaves, shrub trimmings, branches, herbaceous waste, branches, and other plant waste that is generated as a result of gardening, landscaping, or similar activities. Yard waste does not include industrial or agricultural processing waste. Yard waste is a solid waste.
(Ord. 2006-46. Passed 7-11-06.)