As used in this chapter, the following terms and phrases have the following meanings:
ASSOCIATION: All cooperative organizations of residential dwelling owners formed for the purpose of joint management of property or services.
BACK-OF-HOUSE: The kitchen, food preparation, dishwashing, and storage areas of a commercial generator or large event venue with organics that are not accessed by customers or the public.
COLLECTION: The aggregation of mixed Municipal solid waste from the place at which it is generated and includes all activities up to the time the waste is delivered to a waste facility.
COMMERCIAL/INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENT: Any premises not primarily used for residential purposes and wherein a commercial or industrial enterprise of any kind is undertaken, including restaurants, clubs, churches and schools.
CONSTRUCTION DEBRIS: Waste building materials, packaging and rubble resulting from construction, remodeling, repair and demolition of buildings and roads.
GARBAGE: Discarded material resulting from the handling, processing, storage, preparation, serving and consumption of food. Dead animals weighing ten (10) pounds or less shall be classified as garbage.
HOUSEHOLD: An individual or group that maintains a common household and use of common cooking and kitchen facilities and common entrances to a single dwelling unit, where the group consists of:
A. Two (2) or more persons each related to the other by blood, marriage, domestic partnership, adoption, legal guardianship, foster children, and/or cultural or educational exchange program participants hosted by the principal family; or
B. Not more than four (4) unrelated persons.
MIXED MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE: Garbage, refuse and other solid waste from residential, commercial, industrial and community activities that the generator of the waste aggregates for collection, but does not include auto hulks, street sweeping, ash, construction debris, mining waste, sludges, tree and agricultural wastes, tires, lead acid batteries, used oil, and other materials collected, processed and disposed of as separate waste streams.
MULTIPLE (APARTMENT) DWELLING: A building designed with three (3) or more dwelling units exclusively for occupancy by three (3) or more families living independently of each other, but sharing hallways and main entrances and exits.
ORGANICS: Food waste and the designated list of organics published on the Dakota County Website.
RECYCLABLE MATERIAL: Materials that can be readily separated from mixed Municipal solid waste for the purpose of recycling, including, but not limited to, paper, glass, plastics, metals, automobile oil and batteries. Recyclable materials that have been separated from the waste stream, processed, and sold or given away for reuse are no longer considered waste. Refuse derived from fuel or other material that is destroyed by incineration is not a recyclable material.
RECYCLABLE MATERIAL CONTAINER: A curbside recycling container owned by the City or a licensed waste hauler and provided to the resident for the purpose of collection and disposal of recyclable material.
REFUSE: Something rejected or discarded as worthless or useless.
TARGETED RECYCLABLE MATERIAL: A list of recyclable materials types approved by the Dakota County Board of Commissioners and published by the Dakota County Environmental Resources Department on the Dakota County Website that represents the minimum haulers must accept and generators must recycle.
TRASH: Has the same meaning as mixed municipal solid waste.
YARD WASTE: Organic materials consisting of grass clippings, leaves and other forms of organic garden waste, prunings, tree waste, and fresh cut Christmas trees and boughs, but excluding garden vegetables and materials that are not readily compostable within a calendar year.
(Ord. 493, sec. 1, 3-15-1993; amd. Ord. 749, sec. 1, 12-1-2003; Ord. 996, 5-7-2018; Ord. 1038, 12-7-2020)