(A) The definitions stated in § 5-1-1-1 are hereby incorporated in this chapter. In addition, the following words, as used in this chapter, shall have the following meaning.
(1) ACCESS ROADS. All public roads which lead to the entrance of a solid waste disposal facility.
(2) AQUIFER. A porous, water-bearing geologic formation such as sand, gravel, sandstone and fractured or cavernous limestone from which water can be drawn by wells in useable quantities for human consumption.
(3) COVER. Soil which is used to bury solid waste.
(4) FACILITY. Any operation for the processing, treatment, storage or disposal of solid waste, including the site upon which the operation rests and all structures, buildings, equipment and other features located thereon which are necessary to conduct the operation, and may be used as an abbreviation for SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL FACILITY.
(5) GROUND WATER. Naturally occurring water filling the pore spaces of earth materials below the water saturated zone.
(6) HAZARDOUS WASTE. Hereby intended to include:
(a) Any solid or liquid waste with inherent dangers, including but not limited to toxic chemicals, explosives, pathological wastes, radioactive materials, materials likely to cause fires, liquids, semi-liquids or sludges containing less than 30% solids, pesticides, pesticide containers, raw animal manure, septic tank pumpings and raw or digested sewage sludge;
(b) The definitions of hazardous waste stated in I.C. 13-11-2-99; and
(c) Any waste determined by the Indiana Environmental Management Board to be a hazardous waste under I.C. 13-22-2-3.
(7) INCINERATOR. Any apparatus to burn waste substance in which all the factors of combustion (temperature, retention time, turbulence and combustion air) can be controlled.
(8) ON-SITE ROADS. Roads for the passage of vehicles from the site entrance to the portion of the facility where solid waste is discharged from the collection vehicles.
(9) PERSON. Any individual, partnership, copartnership, firm, company, corporation, association, joint stock company, trust, estate, municipality or any other legal entity or his, her or its representative, agent or assigns.
(10) SALVAGING. The controlled removal of materials from solid waste for utilization.
(11) SANITARY LANDFILL. An engineering method of disposing of solid waste on land in a manner that protects the public health and environment by spreading the waste in thin layers, compacting it to the smallest practical volume, and covering it with compacted soil at the end of each working day.
(12) SCAVENGING. The uncontrolled removal of materials from solid waste for utilization.
(13) SLUDGE. Any septic tank pumpings or any solid, semi-solid or liquid waste generated from a municipal, commercial or industrial wastewater treatment plant, water supply treatment plant or air pollution control facility.
(14) SOLID WASTE. All putrescible and non-putrescible solid or semi-solid wastes, except human excreta, but including refuse, garbage, rubbish, ashes, street cleanings, dead animals, offal and solid commercial, industrial and institutional wastes. The term SOLID WASTES does not include sewage transported through public or private sewers, sludge or manures or crop residues which are returned to the soil at the point of generation as fertilizers or soil conditioners as part of a farm operation.
(15) SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL FACILITY. A sanitary landfill, an incinerator, a composting facility, a garbage grinding facility or any other facility that is suitable for solid waste disposal and is constructed and approved under this chapter.
(16) VECTOR. An insect or any other living animal capable of harboring and transmitting germs or other agents of disease to other animals or to humans.
(B) Other terms not defined in this chapter shall have the meanings ascribed to them in I.C. 13-19-1, or, if not defined therein, then the meaning ascribed by common usage.
(C) The terms defined in division (A) above shall have the meanings herein ascribed to them and shall be deemed to modify the definition of similar terms in other chapters of this or any other code, including those cited above, and for all purposes the definitions herein contained shall prevail.
(D) In this chapter the present tense includes the past and future tenses, and the future tense includes the present tense unless otherwise provided. The singular includes the plural and the plural the singular.