For purposes of this chapter, the following terms, phrases, words and their derivations shall have the meanings given herein. When not inconsistent with the context, words used in the present tense include the future, words in the plural number include the singular number, and words in the singular number include the plural number. The word "shall" is always mandatory and not merely directory. These definitions shall apply to all rules, regulations or agreements entered into pursuant to this chapter.
ASHES: The residue from the burning of wood, coke or other combustible material.
BAGS: See definition of Containers.
BULKY WASTE: Stoves, refrigerators, water tanks, washing machines, furniture, appliances, springs, mattresses, carpets, demolition, commercial, industrial, tree stumps, tree trunks, logs, vehicle bodies and parts, wire, large dead animals (over 10 pounds), cement, sheetrock, sod, dirt, tires, rock, loose branches, any item weighing over sixty (60) pounds, and other solid waste and any materials over four feet (4') in length.
BUNDLE: Small trees, branches, shrub and brush trimmings or newspapers and magazines securely tied together forming an easily handled package not to exceed four feet (4') in length and/or thirty five (35) pounds in weight.
BUSINESS: An individual, partnership, association, corporation, company, trust, firm, estate, joint venture, unit, agent, public agency, industry or other legal entity operating as a self- contained independent enterprise, such as a beauty shop, retail shop, professional office, etc.
BUSINESS UNIT: Each space occupied by an individual business. A business unit shall be deemed occupied when either occupied or producing solid waste.
COMMERCIAL/INDUSTRIAL SOLID WASTE: Waste building materials resulting from excavations, construction, remodeling, repair or demolition operations. Examples include tree trunks, logs, concrete, bulky waste, wood materials and sod exceeding sixty (60) pounds.
CONTAINERS:
Bag: Plastic sacks designed to store solid waste with sufficient wall strength to maintain physical integrity when lifted by top. Total weight of bag and its contents shall not exceed thirty five (35) pounds for collection services.
Compactor Container: A receptacle designed to be lifted by mechanical means so that its contents can be emptied and that is designed to hold compacted solid waste yardage.
Manual Container (Garbage Can): A receptacle with a capacity of greater than twenty (20) gallons, but less than thirty six (36) gallons tapered so that it is larger at the top than at the bottom, made of metal, plastic or fiberglass, having a tightfitting lid which completely covers the top of the container, rodentproof and having handles of adequate strength for lifting.
Mechanical Containers: A receptacle designed to be lifted by mechanical means so that its contents can be emptied and that is designed to hold loose solid waste yardage.
CURB LINE/CURBSIDE: That portion of right of way or private property adjacent to the traveled portion of the city rights of way, including alleys, used for the placement of all solid waste containers on collection days. Containers shall be placed as close as is reasonably possible to the traveled right of way without obstructing parking lanes or public sidewalks.
DISPOSAL: Disposing of solid waste at a disposal site; disposal of solid waste for resource recovery or transportation to another site or facility.
DISPOSAL SITE: Waste facility or site where solid waste is disposed of, reduced or recovered, such as sanitary landfills, transfer stations, incinerators and resource recovery facilities which are licensed or approved to receive for processing solid waste by all governmental bodies or agencies having jurisdiction.
EQUIPMENT: Equipment used within the city for the collection or disposal of solid waste.
FRANCHISEE: The person, persons or corporation holding a contract and/or franchise issued or granted by the city authorizing such person to operate, conduct or maintain a municipal solid waste collection and disposal system upon or over any streets, alleys and public ways of the city.
GARBAGE CAN: See definition of Containers.
GENERATOR: Any resident of a residential unit or business unit who creates or produces any waste.
HAUL: An individual trip transporting solid waste from the producer, or any other point within the city, to a disposal site.
HAZARDOUS WASTE: Any chemical, compound, mixture, substance or article, which is designated by the United States environmental protection agency or other appropriate agency of the federal government or state of Idaho to be "hazardous" as that term is defined by or pursuant to law.
HOUSEHOLD SOLID WASTE: Does not include bulky wastes or any type of solid waste that is not normally collected by the franchisee at residential or business units on the regular collection routes.
INFECTIOUS SOLID WASTE: Any material, chemical, compound, mixture, substance or article known to be infectious by the producer or which is designated by the United States environmental protection agency or other appropriate agency of the federal government or the state of Idaho to be "infectious" as that term is commonly defined or defined by or pursuant to law.
PREMISES: Land and all buildings and structures thereon including, but not excluding by terms of enumeration, single- or multi-family dwellings, rooming houses, apartment houses, hospitals, convalescent and nursing homes, hotels and motels, restaurants, drive-in establishments, schools (kindergartens, academic, trade or industrial), and any other place of habitation, office, shop or establishment or place of conducting a business, trade or occupation.
PRODUCER: "Residential unit" or "business unit", as defined herein.
PUTRESCIBLE SOLID WASTE: Solid waste which has the capacity to become rotten or foul.
RESIDENT: Every person, as herein defined, in possession, charge, custody or control of any premises where solid waste is created or accumulated.
RESIDENTIAL UNIT: A dwelling within the corporate limits of the city occupied by a person or group of persons. A residential unit shall be deemed occupied when either occupied or producing solid waste. Each unit within an apartment or condominium shall be treated as an individual dwelling unit, unless served by a mechanical container or compactor.
SERVICE: Solid waste collection and disposal of, or resource recovery from, solid waste, as further defined by agreement.
SOLID WASTE: All solid waste or semisolid waste including, without limitation, bulky, household, hazardous, infectious, garbage, rubbish, refuse, trash, ashes or swill, newsprint or wastepaper, corrugated or cardboard, grass clippings, compost, discarded appliances, equipment, furniture, vehicle parts, tires, resource recovery, vegetable or animal wastes, wire, cement, putrescible, demolition or other wastes resulting from industrial, commercial, agriculture, institutional and residential activities. May include material that is no longer directly usable by the producer, owner, resident or possessor of the material, which material is to be disposed of or to be resource recovered by another person. Solid waste shall include materials that may have value and thus be recovered. The fact that materials are separated or segregated from other solid waste does not remove the materials from this definition. Solid waste shall include waste presently in liquid form. No material shall be considered solid waste until placed for collection. (Ord. 611, 2-10-1987, eff. 2-10-1987)