(a) For the purposes of this chapter the following terms, phrases, words and their derivations shall have the meaning given herein:
(1) "Radioactive material" means any material or combination of materials, which spontaneously emits ionizing radiation. Materials in which estimated specific activity is not greater than 0.002 by microcuries per gram of material, and in which the radioactivity is essentially uniformly distributed, are not considered to be radioactive materials.
(2) "Large quantity radioactive materials" means a quantity the aggregate radioactivity of which exceeds that specified in 10 Code of Federal Regulations (C.F.R.) Part 71 entitled "Packaging of Radioactive Material for Transport", Section 71.4(f).
(3) "Curie" means an expression of the quantity of radiation in terms of the number of atoms which disintegrate per second; a curie is that quantity of radioactive materials which decays such that thirty-seven billion atoms disintegrate per second.
(4) "Millicurie" means one thousandth of a curie.
(5) "Motor vehicle" means any vehicle defined as a "motor vehicle" in Section 301.20.
(6) "Person" means any individual, partnership or corporation engaged in the transportation of passengers or property, as common, contract or private carrier, or freight forwarder, as those terms are used in the Interstate Commerce Act, as amended.
(7) "Hazardous substance" means any substance or mixture of substances which is toxic, corrosive, an irritant, strong sensitizer, flammable or which generates pressure through decomposition, heat or other means, if such substance or mixture of substances may cause substantial personal injury or illness during any customary or reasonably anticipated handling or use.
(8) "Toxic" applies to any substance which has the inherent capacity to produce bodily injury to man through ingestion, inhalation or absorption through any bond surface.
(9) "Highly toxic" means any substance which falls within any of the following categories:
A. Produces death within fourteen days in half or more than half of a group of ten or more laboratory white rats each weighing between 200 and 300 grams, at a single dose of fifty milligrams or less per kilogram of body weight, when orally administered;
B. Produces death within fourteen days in half or more than half of a group of ten or more laboratory white rats each weighing between 200 and 300 grams, when inhaled continuously for a period of one hour or less at an atmospheric concentration of 200 parts per million by volume or less of gas, vapor, mist or dust provided such concentration is likely to be encountered by man when the substance is used in any reasonably foreseeable manner;
C. Produces death within fourteen days in half or more of a group of ten or more rabbits tested in a dosage of 200 milligrams or less per kilogram of body weight, when administered by continuous contact with the bare skin for twenty-four hours or less.
If the available data on human experience with any substance indicates results different from those obtained on animals in the above named dosages or concentrations, the human data shall take precedence.
(10) "Corrosive" means any substance which in contact with living tissue will cause destruction of tissue by chemical action; but shall not refer to action on inanimate surfaces.
(11) "Irritant" means any substance not corrosive with the meaning of subsection (a)(10) hereof which on immediate, prolonged or repeated contact with normal living tissue will induce a local inflammatory reaction.
(12) "Strong sensitizer" means any substance which will cause on normal living tissue, through an allergic or photodynamic process, a hypersensitivity which becomes evident on reapplication of the same substance.
(13) "Extremely flammable" means any substance which has a flash point at or below 20 degrees Fahrenheit as determined by the tagliabue open cup tester.
(14) "Flammable" applies to any substance which has a flash point above twenty degrees to and including eighty degrees Fahrenheit, as determined by the tagliabue open cup tester; except that the flammability of the contents of self-pressurized containers shall be determined by methods generally applicable to such container.
(Ord. 30-79. Passed 6-25-79. )