For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BUILDING. Any structure used or intended for supporting or sheltering any use or occupancy.
EMERGENCY RESPONSE.
(1) The providing, sending and/or utilizing of police, firefighting, emergency medical and rescue services by the township, or by a private individual or corporation operating at the request or direction of the township or state to an incident resulting in a hazardous material release or threatened release.
(2) The responses by the township's Fire Department to the following incidents:
(a) A non-resident of the township who receives, requires or otherwise necessitates or causes the use of Fire Department personnel and/or equipment of the Department for any provided service; and
(b) Any person who receives, requires or necessitates or causes the use of Fire Department personnel and/or equipment for responding to power lines damage or disruption.
EMERGENCY RESPONSE SERVICES. All services and equipment which are used by the township in responding to an emergency response.
HAZARDOUS MATERIAL. Explosives, pyrotechnics, flammable gas, flammable compressed gas, non-flammable compressed gas, flammable liquid, combustible liquid, oxidizing material, poisonous gas, poisonous liquid, poisonous solid, irritating material, etiological material, radioactive material, corrosive material or liquefied petroleum gas.
PREMISES. Any lot or parcel of land, exclusive of buildings, and includes a parking lot, tourist camp, trailer camp, airport, stockyard, junkyard, wharf, pier, public roadway and any other place or enclosure, however owned, used or occupied.
RESPONSIBLE PARTY. Any individual, firm, corporation, association, partnership, commercial entity, group, consortium, joint venture, government entity or any other legal entity which is:
(1) Responsible for a release of a hazardous material, either actual or threatened;
(2) Is an owner, tenant, occupant or party in control of property onto which or from which hazardous materials release; or
(3) Receives, requires or otherwise necessitates or causes the use of emergency response services.
(Ord. 09-04, passed 12-15-2009)