The following words and terms, when used in this Chapter, shall for the purpose of this Chapter, have the following meanings ascribed to them in this section:
(1) “Abatement cost” means the County's cost for labor, equipment, and supplies for, or the contract price of, and any charges to, the County, with respect to the removal and disposal of litter, garbage, rubbish, or refuse from a property.
(2) “Construction site” means any residential, commercial, industrial or other area, lot or site at which construction or demolition of any type is conducted, including roads, at buildings, and at all other places actively being constructed, demolished, renovated, or repaired.
(3) “Construction waste” means solid waste that is produced or generated during construction, demolition, remodeling, or repair of pavements, houses, commercial buildings, and other structures. Construction wastes include, but are not limited to lumber, wire, sheetrock, broken brick, shingles, glass, pipes, concrete, paving materials, and metal and plastics if the metal or plastics are a part of the materials of construction or empty containers for such materials. Paints, coatings, solvents, asbestos, any liquid, compressed gases or semi-liquids and garbage are not construction wastes.
(4) “Discard” means to abandon, dispose of, burn, incinerate, accumulate, store or treat before or instead of being abandoned, disposed of, burned or incinerated.
(5) “Discarded material” means a material that is abandoned, disposed of, burned, incinerated, accumulated, stored or treated before or instead of being abandoned, disposed of, burned or incinerated.
(6) “Dispose” means to discharge, deposit, inject, dump, spill, leak or placement of any solid waste into or on any land or water so that such solid waste or any constituent of it may enter the environment or be emitted into the air or discharged into any waters.
(7) “Garbage” means readily putrescible discarded materials composed of animal, vegetable, or other organic matter.
(8) “Litter” means any man-made material that, if thrown, discarded, or disposed as prohibited by this chapter, may create a danger to public health, safety, or welfare or degrades the environment of the County. “Litter” shall include, but is not limited to, any garbage, trash, refuse, rubbish, newspaper, magazine, glass, metal, plastic or paper container, construction waste, or any discarded object likely to injure any person, create a traffic hazard, or degrade the environment.
(9) “Person” means any individual, corporation, association, firm, receiver, guardian, trustee, executor, administrator, fiduciary, representative, or group of individuals or entities of any kind.
(10) “Receptacle” means a container that is specifically designed, constructed, and placed for use as a depository for litter or solid waste.
(11) “Refuse” means all solid waste products having the character of solids rather than liquids and that are composed wholly or partially of materials such as garbage, trash, rubbish, litter, residues from clean up of spills or contamination, or other discarded materials.
(12) “Rubbish” means combustible or slowly putrescible discarded materials, which include but are not limited to trees, wood, leaves, trimmings from shrubs or trees, printed matter, plastic and paper products, grass, rags, and other combustible or slowly putrescible materials not included under the term “garbage.”
(13) “Solid waste” or “waste” means any garbage, refuse, rubbish, trash, or other discarded material, but does not include solid or dissolved materials in domestic sewage, solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return flows, industrial discharges, or special nuclear or by-product materials.
(14) “Trash” means combustible and noncombustible discarded materials and is used interchangeably with the term “rubbish”.
(Ord. 04-17. Passed 12-14-04.)