A. Definitions: As defined for the purposes of this section:
SOLID WASTE: Shall include, but is not limited to:
Ashes: The residue from the burning of wood, coal, or other combustible materials.
Bulky Waste: That item which precludes or complicates handling by normal collection, processing, or disposal methods because of its large size.
Garbage: Putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food.
Hazardous Waste: Any waste or combination of wastes which pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health, the environment, plants, or animals because such wastes are nondegradable or persistent in nature or because they can be biologically magnified or because they can be lethal or because they may otherwise cause or tend to cause detrimental cumulative effects.
Refuse: All putrescible and nonputrescible solid waste (except body wastes), including garbage, rubbish, ashes, street cleanings, dead animals and solid market and industrial wastes.
Rubbish: Nonputrescible solid waste (excluding ashes) consisting of both combustible and noncombustible wastes, such as paper, cardboard, tin cans, yard clippings, leaves, bark, wood, glass, bedding, dishes and similar materials. Rubbish does not include wood, bark or paper burned in a fireplace used for aesthetic enjoyment or as a source of heat.
B. Prohibited:
1. Burning of solid waste within the town of Guernsey shall not be permitted, except as described in subsection B2 of this section, and persons found guilty of this offense shall be in violation of this section.
2. Incineration systems which meet all applicable air quality and emission standards, and where the waste cannot be disposed of in accordance with the normal collection procedures, shall be permitted upon obtaining the approval of the town and all other agencies who have jurisdiction over the same.
C. Penalty: Any person, firm or corporation violating this section shall be charged with a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined in an amount not to exceed seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), plus costs. Violation of this section shall be deemed a separate offense on each day that a violation shall occur. (Ord. 08-07-006, 6-19-2007)