COLLECTION: The process of collecting solid waste for transportation.
COMMERCIAL USER: Any person generating solid waste from other than a single-family residence.
COMMERCIALLY GENERATED SOLID WASTE: All solid waste except that generated by single-family residences.
CONTRACTOR: Any person engaged by agreement with the village for the collection of refuse and solid waste from residential, commercial, and other users; the transport of solid waste generated in the village to a sanitary landfill; and/or the operation of a solid waste transfer station.
DISPOSAL FACILITY: A sanitary landfill, transfer station, or other acceptable method.
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPROVEMENT DIVISION (EID): The environmental improvement division of the health and environment department of the state of New Mexico.
PERSON: Means and includes any person, firm, partnership, public or private corporation, association, trust, estate, or company, and any officer or agent thereof.
PREMISES: Business houses, apartment houses, offices, theaters, hotels, residences, cafes, eating houses, tourist camps, mobile home courts, settlements, clinics, rooming houses, schools, vacant lots and all other places within the limits of the village where "solid waste", as defined herein, accumulates.
REFUSE: Solid waste.
SANITARY LANDFILL: A facility employing an engineered method of disposal of solid waste on land that minimizes environmental hazards and meets the design and operational requirements of the environmental improvement division.
SOLID WASTE: Means and includes, but is not limited to, any garbage, rejected or waste food, offal, swill, carrion, ashes, dirt, slop, waste water, trash, rubbish, waste or unwholesome material of any kind except sewage but including residential, commercial, institutional, industrial, and recreational waste; the words "solid waste" mean the same as "refuse".
TRANSFER STATION: Any facility constructed and managed for storage and/or processing and placement of solid waste in large containers or vehicles for movement to another waste facility. (Ord. 242, 1990)