For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions apply:
A. "Animal Waste" means any carcass, manure, fertilizer, or any form of solid excrement produced by any and all forms of domestic or commercial livestock such as cattle or horses, but not including household pets.
B. "City" means the City of Gridley, a municipal corporation, and all the territory lying within the municipal boundaries of the City as presently existing or as such boundaries may be modified.
C. "City Administrator" means the City Administrator of the City of Gridley or the City Administrator's designee.
D. "City Council" means the Mayor and City Council of the City of Gridley.
E. "Commercial Premises" means each place used primarily for business purposes.
F. "Composting" means a method of treatment in which organic wastes are biologically decomposed under controlled, aerobic or anaerobic conditions to produce a product that can be reused.
G. "Construction Debris" means used or discarded construction materials generated during the construction or renovation of a structure.
H. "Container" means any and all types of solid waste, plant materials and recyclable materials receptacles including but not limited to metal or plastic cans, carts, bins, tubs, bins/dumpsters, roll-off boxes, or debris boxes.
I. "Demolition Debris" means used or discarded construction materials generated during the razing or renovation of a structure.
J. "Designated Waste" means non-hazardous waste which may pose special disposal problems because of its potential to contaminate the environment and which may be disposed of only in Class II disposal sites, or Class III disposal sites pursuant to a variance issued by the California Department of Health Services. Designated Waste consists of those substances classified as designated waste by the State of California, in 23 California Code of Regulations Section 2522.
K. "Disposal" means the ultimate disposition of solid waste at a disposal site in full regulatory compliance.
L. "Disposal Site" means the solid waste facility or facilities utilized for the ultimate landfill disposal of solid waste.
M. "Franchisee" means a person who has entered into a franchise agreement with the City Council pursuant to Article 3 of this chapter.
N. "Hazardous Waste" means all substances defined as hazardous waste, acutely hazardous waste, or extremely hazardous waste by the State of California in Health and Safety Code Sections 25110.02, 25114, and 25117 or in future amendments to or recodifications of such statutes, or identified and listed as hazardous waste by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, pursuant to the Federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (42 USC Section 6901, et seq.), and all future amendments thereto.
O. "Home Composting" means the on-site recycling of organic materials such as leaves and grass clippings generated on residential premises.
P. "Litter" means any quantity of solid waste or plant materials that are not placed in a container.
Q. "Material Recovery Facility" means a permitted facility where solid waste, recyclable materials, or plant materials are sorted or separated for the purposes recovering reusable or recyclable materials.
R. "Non-Putrescible Waste" means solid waste which is not subject to decomposition by micro-organisms.
S. "Occupant" means and includes every owner of, and every tenant or person who is in possession of, is the inhabitant of, or has the care and control of, an inhabited residence or a place of business.
T. "Permittee" means any person authorized by City of Gridley permit to collect recyclable materials.
U. "Person" means any individual, firm, association, organization, partnership, corporation, business trust, joint venture, the United States, the State of California, the County of Butte, towns, cities or special purpose districts.
V. "Physically Impaired Customer" means a customer who is recognized by the California Department of Motor Vehicles as handicapped, or a customer whose ability to move a full solid waste, recyclable materials, or yard debris container is constrained by a medical or physical condition as evidenced by a letter from the customer's physician.
W. "Plant materials" means a subset of organic Recyclable Materials consisting of grass cuttings, weeds, leaves, prunings, branches, dead plants, brush, tree trimmings, dead trees (not more than six (6) inches in diameter) and four (4) feet in length, and similar materials generated at premises within the city, separated and set out for collection, processing, and recycling. Plant Materials does not include materials not normally produced from farms, gardens or landscapes, such as, but not limited to, brick, rock, gravel, large quantities of dirt, concrete, sod, non-organic wastes, oil, and painted or treated wood or wood products.
X. "Putrescible Waste" means solid wastes originated from living organisms and their metabolic waste products and from petroleum, which contains naturally produced organic compounds and which are biologically decomposable by microbial and fungal action into the constituent compounds of water, carbon dioxide, and other simpler organic compounds.
Y. "Recyclable Materials" means discarded materials that are re-used, remanufactured or processed.
Z. "Residential Premises" means a site occupied by a building zoned for residential occupation and whose occupants generate residential solid wastes. No place used primarily for business purposes shall be considered as a residential unit.
AA. "Residential Solid Waste" means solid waste originating from single-family or multiple family dwellings.
BB. "Solid Waste" means all putrescible and non-putrescible solid, semisolid, and liquid wastes, as defined in California Public Resources Code § 40191, as that section may be amended from time to time. Solid waste does not include abandoned vehicles and parts thereof, Hazardous Waste or low-level radioactive waste, medical waste, Recyclable Materials, or Plant Materials.
CC. "Source Separated" means to have the generator segregate from solid waste material which otherwise would become solid waste, such as recyclable materials or plant materials, for the sole purpose of reuse, recycling, or composting.
DD. "Waste Generator" means any person whose act or process produced solid waste, or whose act first causes solid waste to become subject to regulation.
(Ord. 771-2007, § 1; Ord. 701-2000, § 1(part)).