As used in this chapter, the following words and terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section:
CITY: The city of Heppner.
COUNCIL: The city council of the city.
FRANCHISEE: The person or corporation granted a franchise by subsection 4-1-4C of this chapter or a subsequent ordinance or a subcontractor to such person.
HAZARDOUS WASTE: Any waste:
A. Defined as hazardous waste by or pursuant to Oregon Revised Statutes chapter 459; or
B. Defined as hazardous waste by another governmental unit having jurisdiction.
INFECTIOUS WASTE: Biological waste including medical waste described as:
A. Blood and blood products, excretions, exudates, secretions, suctionings and other body fluids that cannot be directly discarded into a municipal sewer system, including solid or liquid waste from renal dialysis and waste materials reasonably contaminated with blood or body fluids.
B. Cultures and stocks of etiologic agents and associated biologicals, including specimen cultures and disks and devices used to transfer, inoculate and mix cultures, wastes from production of biologicals and serums and discarded live and attenuated vaccines, but does not include throat and urine cultures.
C. Sharps that have been removed from their original sterile containers, including needles, IV tubing and needles attached, scalpel blades, lancets, glass tubes that could be broken during handling and syringes.
D. Pathological waste, including biopsy materials and all human tissues, anatomical parts that emanate from surgery, obstetrical procedures, autopsy and laboratory procedures and animal carcasses exposed to pathogens in research, the bedding of the animals and other waste from such animals. Pathological waste does not include formaldehyde, other preservative agents or hazardous waste.
E. Once infectious wastes as defined in subsections A through D of this definition have been burned in a state approved incinerator, it is no longer to be considered infectious waste under this chapter.
LANDFILL: A disposal site for solid waste approved by the Oregon department of environmental quality and meeting all federal and state standards for such a facility.
PERSON: Any individual, partnership, association, corporation, trust, firm, estate, joint venture or other private legal entity or any public agency.
RECYCLABLE MATERIAL: Any material or group of materials that can be collected and sold for recycling at a net cost equal to or less than the cost of collection and disposal of the same material.
RESOURCE RECOVERY: The process of obtaining useful material or energy resources from solid waste, including reuse, recycling and other materials recovery or energy recovery of or from solid waste.
SERVICE: The collection, transportation or disposal of or resource recovery from solid waste.
SOLID WASTE: All solid or semisolid waste including, without limitation, garbage, rubbish, refuse, trash, ashes or swill; wastepaper, corrugated or cardboard; industrial, governmental or institutional wastes; discarded home or industrial appliances, equipment or furniture; discarded or abandoned vehicles, vehicle parts or tires; manure; vegetable or animal wastes; dead animals; and other wastes.
SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT: The prevention of or reduction of solid waste, management of service and facilities and equipment necessary and convenient to such activities.
TIRE: A continuous solid or pneumatic rubber covering and encircling the wheel of a vehicle in which a person or property is transported or by which they may be drawn on a highway. A passenger tire is a tire with less than an eighteen inch (18") rim diameter. A truck tire is a tire with a rim diameter of between eighteen inches (18") and twenty four and five-tenths inches (24.5"). This does not include tires on the following:
A. A device moved only by human power.
B. A device used only upon fixed rails or tracks.
C. A motorcycle.
D. All-terrain vehicle, including, but not limited to, three (3) wheel and four (4) wheel ATVs, dune buggies and other similar vehicles. All-terrain vehicles do not include jeeps, pickups and other four (4) wheel drive vehicles that may be registered and licensed and driven on public roads in Oregon.
E. A device used only for farming, except a farm truck.
WASTE: Material that is no longer directly usable by the source, generator or producer of the material, which material is to be disposed of or be resource recovered by another person.
A. The fact that all or any part of the materials may have value and thus be recovered does not remove them from this definition.
B. The fact that the source, generator or producer of materials has separated or segregated such material from other waste does not remove the materials from this definition. (Ord. 563-08, 6-9-2008)