The terms listed in this section shall have the meanings set forth herein throughout this chapter:
COMMERCIAL HAULER: Any entity including, but not limited to, person, corporation, partnership, sole proprietorship, limited liability company or limited liability partnership who engages in collection or hauling of solid waste.
COMMERCIAL WASTE: All types of solid waste generated by entities including, but not limited to, stores, offices, restaurants, warehouses and other nonmanufacturing activities, excluding residential and industrial wastes.
DANGEROUS OR HAZARDOUS WASTE MATERIAL: Any substance in any combination of solid, liquid or gaseous form in any quantity that is defined as hazardous wastes under federal law, including the federal resource conservation and recovery act, 42 USC subsection 6901 et seq., and under comparable state laws, and any other radioactive, volatile, corrosive, flammable, explosive, biomedical, infectious, biohazardous, or toxic waste, substance or material, as defined by or listed or characterized under applicable federal, state, or local laws or regulations.
DELINQUENT ACCOUNTS: Accounts that have a balance due and owing for greater than sixty (60) days from the date of billing.
DIRECTOR: The director of the solid waste department or her/his designee.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE: Solid waste generated by manufacturing or industrial processes that is not a hazardous waste regulated under subtitle C of RCRA or a "dangerous or hazardous waste material" as defined herein. Such waste may include, but is not limited to, waste resulting from the following manufacturing processes: electric power generation; fertilizer and agricultural chemicals; food and related products and byproducts; inorganic chemicals; iron and steel manufacturing; leather and leather products; nonferrous metals manufacturing/foundries; organic chemicals; plastics and resins manufacturing; pulp and paper industry; rubber and miscellaneous plastic products; stone, glass, clay and concrete products; textile manufacturing; transportation equipment; and water treatment. This term does not include mining waste or oil and gas waste.
JOINT RESIDENTIAL COLLECTION SITE: A site where, through the private agreement between a hauler and multiple residential customers, solid waste is deposited in and collected from containers.
PERSON: Any person, corporation, partnership, association, firm or other business or nonprofit entity.
RATE SHEET AGREEMENT: An agreement between Kootenai County solid waste department and property owners of Kootenai County acknowledging the property owner's obligation for payment of solid waste disposal fees on their property and/or authorizing billing of solid waste disposal fees to the property owner's tenant or assignee.
RECYCLABLE MATERIALS: Those items listed in the county solid waste handbook. Recyclable materials may (subject to their being listed in the aforementioned handbook) include, but not be limited to: cardboard, aluminum, paper, wood products, glass, selected plastics, metals and other materials for which recycling markets may be developed now and in the future.
RESIDENCE: A building or other suitable structure that is used as a dwelling and is inhabited by a person or persons. For solid waste fee purposes, said dwelling may be constructed to provide living space for a single family up to four (4) families (fourplex) per building regardless of the number of structures per lot. Single-family through fourplex dwellings will be assessed a single residential solid waste fee for each dwelling space. Multi-family dwellings larger than a fourplex are classed as commercial property and will fall under commercial billing procedures and are not classified as a residence.
RESIDENTIAL SERVICE: The regular weekly removal of not more than three (3) approved thirty two (32) gallon containers, or the preapproved equivalent (96 gallons) of waste from a residence. Regular weekly removal of one yard dumpsters (approximately 202 gallons) or greater of waste from a residence will result in conversion of service to a commercial account and will thereafter be billed accordingly.
RESIDENTIAL SOLID WASTE: All types of waste generated from a private household or dwelling to sustain living or quality of life for a family residing at that residence. Generally, waste quantities will not exceed ninety six (96) gallons (3 garbage cans) per week. Home business waste falls under the commercial definition and is excluded from the definition of residential solid waste. As with all solid waste, residential solid waste is subject to the provisions and restrictions of any and all fee resolutions passed pursuant to this chapter.
RURAL RESIDENTIAL COLLECTION SITE: A county operated collection facility and any land upon which containers (mobile or stationary) are placed for public collection of solid waste, whether said land is publicly owned or is provided by an agreement with the county.
SOLID WASTE: All matter of solid substances which have been, or are intended to be, abandoned or discarded by their owner or possessor on private or public lands and as such may be additionally defined in the Idaho Code. Solid waste does not include recyclable materials.
SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL SYSTEM: All lands, sites, facilities, equipment and manpower necessary or used for the collection, transportation, storage, treatment, processing, reuse, recycling or other means necessary for the handling and disposal of solid waste. Said system shall include all approved public and private disposal sites and approved system components in existence at the time of adoption of this chapter and as approved subsequent to the adoption of this chapter.
SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL SYSTEM COMPONENT: Any public or privately owned site, collection location, disposal facility, transportation element or other functioning part of the solid waste disposal system for the county where one or more phases of solid waste disposal is carried out by one or more persons. Component shall not include the solid waste receptacle provided by a commercial solid waste hauler or generator for use by a single business, customer or client.
SOLID WASTE INCREMENT: A unit for measuring solid waste. For further clarification see the Kootenai County solid waste fee resolution for residential and commercial solid waste fees. (Ord. 449, 11-23-2010)