For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BULKY WASTE ITEMS. Major household appliances including, but not limited to, refrigerators, washers, dryers, hot water tanks, cooking stoves, dishwashers, televisions and furniture, as well as other items which may be determined by the Health Commissioner from time to time as being bulky waste items.
COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENTS. Business establishments engaged in the purchase, sale, or barter of commodities, including, but not limited to, stores, markets, restaurants and other establishments maintained for the provision of food and beverages for human consumption, commercial marinas, hotels, motels, bed and breakfasts, and all such similar establishments.
COMMERCIAL HAULER. Any person who is engaged on a full-time or part-time basis, in the process and activity of collecting, conveying, transporting, or disposing of solid waste, garbage, refuse and other discarded material which has been accumulated within the village, other than that actually produced by such person or in direct connection to a premises of which such person is the owner or an occupant.
GARBAGE. All putrescible wastes except wastes of the human body, other water-carried wastes and infectious wastes as defined in R.C. § 3734.01(R) or any subsequent amendment or modification thereto, including but not limited to, all vegetable and animal wastes resulting from the handling, preparation and cooking of foods, and any unwashed containers that previously contained food or liquid prepared or proposed for human or animal consumption.
GROUND. The earth, as well as the surface of a driveway, a sidewalk, a floor or any other surface on, in or about real property on or in which garbage or other refuse may be placed, deposited, kept, accumulated or stored.
HEALTH COMMISSIONER. The individual appointed by the Board of Health of the jurisdiction of the village to serve, either permanently or temporarily, as the executive officer of such Board, or the representative duly authorized by such executive officer to act in behalf thereof.
PART-TIME DWELLING. A dwelling that is used primarily as a residence during the time period commencing May 1 and terminating on October 31 of each year.
PERSON. The State of Ohio or any political subdivision, agency, office or enterprise thereof, any corporation, public or private, partnership or other entity, and any individual.
PREMISES. Any land, building, or structure on or in which solid waste may be generated, placed, deposited, kept, accumulated or stored.
RECYCLABLE MATERIALS or RECYCLABLES. Those items which the Transfer Station Committee has established recycling programs for.
REFUSE or OTHER REFUSE. Ashes, crockery, bottles, cans, paper and other wood pulp products, boxes, rags, old or discarded clothing, bedding mattresses and upholstered furniture, and all other similar nonputrescible wastes and discarded materials not otherwise defined herein.
RESIDENCE. Any enclosure, other than those kept, maintained or operated solely as commercial establishments, used as a human domicile, including, but not limited to, single family, two-family, and multi-family dwellings, mobile homes and house trailers, living quarters within or attached to boathouse structures or boat ports, camps and any other structure within which humans may sleep, prepare or consume food.
SOLID WASTE. Such unwanted residual solid or semi-solid material which results from industrial, commercial, agricultural and community operations, excluding earth or material from construction, mining or demolition operations, or other waste materials of a type that would normally be included in demolition operations or other waste materials of a type that would normally be included in demolition debris, nontoxic fly ash, spent nontoxic foundry sand, and slag and other substances that are not harmful or inimical to public health, and including but not limited to, garbage, tires, combustible and noncombustible material, street dirt and debris, and excluding any material that is an infectious waste or a hazardous waste as defined in the Revised Code. All solid waste must be bagged with the exception of metal accepted for recycling.
(Ord. 1994-O-01, passed 1-22-94; Am. Ord. 1998-O-20, passed 4-25-98; Am. Ord. 2000-O-35, passed 6-8-00)