For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ASSESSMENT. The fee imposed for recovery of garbage collection costs incurred for benefitting a particular property of any person levied pursuant to this chapter.
BIO-HAZARDOUS MEDICAL WASTE. Any waste that is composed of, or has a constituent of, one of the following:
1. Cultures and stocks: Discarded cultures and stocks generated in the diagnosis, treatment, or immunization of a human being or animal or in any research relating to that diagnosis, treatment, immunization, or in the production or testing of bacteria.
2. Human blood and blood products: Discarded products and materials containing free- flowing blood or free-flowing blood components.
3. Human pathological wastes: Discarded organs and body parts removed during surgery.
4. Medical sharps: Discarded sharps used in animal or human patient care, medical research, or clinical laboratories. This includes hypodermic needles, syringes, pipettes, scalpel blades, blood vials, needles attached to tubing, broken and unbroken glassware, and slides and cover slips.
5. Research animal wastes: Animal carcasses, body parts, and bedding of animals that have been infected with agents that produce, or may produce, human infection.
BRUSH. Tree limbs and shrubbery clippings exceeding three feet in length.
BULK WASTE. Wood, timber, household discards such as furniture, rugs, carpet, and other large items, white goods, large pieces of metal, tree limbs, bagged yard rakings or trimmings, or other similar material except putrescible food items and dead animals.
BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENT. Any structure or premises not used as a residence, including but not limited to retail, wholesale, warehouse, store, factory, production, processing, manufacturing, restaurant, construction, hospitals, governmental entities, public authorities (schools), or office uses, but not including any residence.
COLLECTION EMPLOYEE. Any individual employed or contracted for the purpose of effectuating the provisions of this chapter.
COMMERCIAL REFUSE GENERATOR. Any person in charge of, owning, leasing, renting, or occupying any business, or industrial or commercial building other than a private residence, including but not limited to a store, office, factory, hotel, tourist court, motel, motor court, motor hotel, trailer court, apartment hotel, or residential building ordinarily leased for a period of less than three months.
COMMERCIAL SOLID WASTE/RECYCLING COLLECTION. The collection or removal of commercial solid waste or recycling from one or more business establishments, either by the town or a solid waste collection company contracted by the town.
CONSTRUCTION WASTE. Material from construction, remodeling, construction-site preparation, including but not limited to rocks, trees, debris, dirt, brick, fill, plaster, and all types of scrap building materials.
CONTAINABLE RUBBISH. All putrescible and non-putrescible solid wastes, including but not limited to wrapped garbage, wrapped small dead animals, wrapped or boxed ashes, wastepaper, excelsior, rags, bottles, crockery, bedding, clothing, carpets, leather, tin cans, metal scraps, small mechanical parts, shavings, floor sweepings, grass and weed clippings, twigs, tree limbs not exceeding three feet in length, and other similar waste or debris.
FILTH. Manure, excrement, or similar substance.
GARBAGE.
All putrescible waste, excepting sewage and body waste, and all organic waste that shall have been prepared for, or intended to be used as food or shall have resulted from the preparation of food and shall include all such substances from all public and private establishments and all residents.
GRAFFITI. A drawing or inscribed message, slogan, sign or symbol, or mark of any type that is made on any public or private building, structure, or surface and that is made without the permission of the owner.
GREEN WASTE. Generally yard waste, including leaves, grass clippings, tree trimmings, brush, and other plant growth of no more than four feet in length and less than one-half inch in diameter.
LIEN. A charge which attaches in favor of the town to real property benefitted by the collection of any brush, trash, bulk rubbish, containable rubbish, filth, construction waste, or refuse; the LIEN also attaches to any other real or personal property of a person or any refuse generator owning or in charge of benefitted property, to secure the payment of unpaid monthly collection costs, as hereinafter described.
LITTER. Any rubbish, trash, weeds, filth, and debris which constitute a hazard to public health and safety and shall include all putrescible and non-putrescible solid wastes including garbage, trash, ashes, street cleanings, dead animals, abandoned automobiles, and solid market and industrial waste; any deposit, accumulation, pile or heap of brush, grass, debris, weeds, cans, cloth, paper, wood rubbish or other unsightly or unsanitary matter of any kind whatsoever; and any growth of weeds, brush,
grass, or other vegetable growth to a height of over six inches.
OPEN AREA. Any park, street, gutter, sidewalk, sewer, boulevard, alley, greenbelt, square, vacant lot, space, ground or other area where refuse material may accumulate.
PERSON. Any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, institution or other entity acting as principal, agent, officer, servant, or employee for himself, herself, or itself, or for any other individual, firm, partnership, corporation, institution, or other entity, who owns, leases, rents, or occupies any real property within the town limits.
PROHIBITED SUBSTANCE. Any liquid, solid, or gas with an ignition temperature or flash point of less than 200° F, including but not limited to gasoline, benzine, naphtha, or other flammable or explosive material having a pH lower than 5.5 or higher than 9.0 or having any other corrosive property which could cause damage to equipment; any noxious or malodorous substance offensive to the senses and depriving a neighborhood or a considerable number of persons of the comfortable enjoyment of life or property, or any bio-hazardous medical waste or recyclables.
RECYCLABLES. Post-consumer materials which may be collected, separated, cleansed, treated, or reconstituted and returned to the economic stream in the form of raw materials or products, including but not limited to newspapers (including inserts), residential mixed paper, (including window envelopes), cardboard, office paper (including white, colored, and computer paper and window envelopes), aluminum cans and scrap, steel and bi-metal food and beverage cans and lids, plastic bottles and containers labeled #1 (PET or PETE), and #2 (HDPE), and glass.
REFUSE. All putrescible or non-putrescible solid wastes (except body wastes), including garbage, rubbish, ashes, street cleanings, dead animals, abandoned, wrecked, or junked vehicles or parts thereof; brush, and containable rubbish, filth,
construction waste and prohibited substances when these terms are not specifically noted in this chapter.
RESIDENTIAL REFUSE AND RECYCLING GENERATOR. Any person in charge of owning, leasing, renting or occupying any building or buildings used solely for a family or private residential domicile, including but not limited to single- and multiple-family dwelling units, apartments, townhouses, cooperatives, condominiums, and boarding and rooming houses.
RESIDENTIAL REFUSE COLLECTION AND RECYCLING CENTER. That area specifically designated by the town for the use of residential customer only (no commercial refuse containers) or dedicated for the collection of bulk waste, green waste, and recyclables.
PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR. The head of the Department of Sanitation or duly authorized agent.
SCAVENGING. The unauthorized removal of solid waste from any container on the street, private property, or town's residential refuse collection and recyclables center.
SECURELY ANCHORED LOAD. Material being transported over a town street by a vehicle which does not provide a tight cover and is securely anchored against possible loss from the vehicle, said definition of the same consistent with, and as defined by Arizona Revised Statutes.
SOLID WASTE COLLECTION COMPANY. Any company or person engaged in the removal of solid wastes from hotels, restaurants, cafes, and other places not otherwise provided with service by the town.
TRASH. Rubbish, waste, debris, or refuse.
UNCOVERED LOAD. A load of solid waste in which loose material might fall or be blown from the transporting vehicle because the material is not completely contained within closed containers or completely enclosed within the transporting vehicle by
means of a tarpaulin or other equivalent covering or packaging designed to prevent the loss of any and all material from the transporting vehicle.
VICIOUS ANIMAL. Any animal of a vicious species or an animal of a domesticated species, including but not limited to cats and dogs, which without provocation is prone to attack persons.
(1996 Code, § 8.08.020) (Ord. 112, passed - -1983; Ord. 11-06, passed 6-28-2011; Ord. 13-02, passed 4-9-2013)