The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this Article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this Section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
Cover Material: Solid materials, substances or compounds consisting solely of dirt, slag, clay, ashes or cinders, pulverized, spread and compacted so as to form an effective cover seal over such fill.
Fill: Any solid materials, substances or compounds, including (but not by way of limitation of the generality of the foregoing) wood, concrete, plaster, dirt, slag, clay, bricks, ashes, cinders, stone, gravel, glass, rubber, and metal scrap, subject, however, to the following limitations:
(1) The term "fill" shall not include highly flammable, toxic, explosive or odorous materials and specifically, the following: "oxidizing materials", "radioactive materials", "flammable solids", "potentially explosive chemicals" or "highly toxic materials" as such terms are used in the national fire codes;
(2) The term "fill" shall not include "garbage" as defined in section 11-19-2 of the Illinois Municipal Code, as amended, and in section 3 et seq., of the Illinois Environmental Protection Act, as amended, or any other organic matter whatsoever, excepting such as may be incidentally a part of any substance, material or compound permitted as fill hereunder; provided that in no event shall any such garbage or other organic matter comprise in amount more than five percent (5%) of the aggregate of such permitted fill at any time.
Fill Site: The location or place at or upon which any fill is deposited or any landfill is established and operated.
Person: Any natural individual, firm, trust, partnership, association or corporation, in his, her or its own capacity or as administrator, conservator, executor, trustee, receiver or other legal representative.
Sanitary Landfill: The method of operation or process whereby fill is deposited in any pit, hole, excavation, pond or other low place and then compacted by mechanical equipment and covered by a layer of cover material.
(Code 1972, § 7-6-1)
3 65 ILCS 5/11-19-2; 415 ILCS 5/3 et seq.