For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions apply:
AGRICULTURAL OPERATION: An activity on land currently used or intended to be used primarily for the purpose of obtaining a profit in money by raising, harvesting and selling crops or by the raising and selling of livestock or poultry, or the produce thereof, which activity is necessary to serve that purpose. Agricultural operation also means activities conducted by not for profit agricultural research organizations, which activities are necessary to serve that purpose. It does not include the construction and use of dwellings provided in conjunction with the agricultural operation.
AGRICULTURAL WASTE: Any material actually generated or used by an agricultural operation.
BLM: Vale district office of the bureau of land management, department of interior, United States Of America.
BURN BARREL: A device used for the sole purpose of burning domestic waste and covered by a mesh screen.
BURNING PERMIT: A burning permit issued pursuant to this chapter.
COMMERCIAL WASTE: A. Any material except:
Agricultural waste
Construction waste
Demolition waste
Domestic waste
Industrial waste
B. Examples of commercial waste are material from offices, wholesale, or retail of goods or services, warehouses, restaurants, mobile home parks, and dwellings containing more than four (4) family living units such as apartments, condominiums, hotels, motels or dormitories. Any waste produced by a governmental educational or charitable institution.
CONSTRUCTION WASTE: Any material actually resulting from or produced by a building or construction project. Examples of construction waste are wood, lumber, paper, crating and packing materials used during construction, materials left after completion of construction and materials collected during cleanup of a construction site.
DEMOLITION WASTE: Any material actually resulting from or produced by the complete or partial destruction or tearing down of any manmade structure or land clearing, excluding yard debris (domestic waste) and agricultural waste.
DOMESTIC WASTE: Household material, which includes paper, cardboard, clothing, yard debris, or other material actually generated in or around a dwelling of four (4) or fewer family living units, or on the real property appurtenant to the dwelling. Such materials actually generated in or around a dwelling of more than four (4) family living units are commercial wastes. Once domestic waste is removed from the property of origin, it becomes commercial waste.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE: Any material, including process waste, produced as the direct result of any manufacturing or industrial process.
LAND CLEARING: The removal of trees, brush, stumps, debris or manmade structures for the purpose of site cleanup or site preparation. All material generated by land clearing is demolition waste except those materials which are included in the definitions of agricultural wastes, and yard debris (domestic waste).
NUISANCE: A substantial and unreasonable interference with another's use and enjoyment of real property, or the substantial and unreasonable invasion of a right common to members of the general public.
OPEN BURNING: Includes burning in:
A. Open outdoor fires;
B. Burn barrels;
C. Incinerators which do not meet the emission limitations specified for solid waste and infectious waste burning equipment in OAR 340-230-10101 through 340-230-0150;
D. Any other burning which occurs in such a manner that combustion air is not effectively controlled and combustion products are not effectively vented through a stack or chimney.
RURAL FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT: A rural fire protection district established pursuant to Oregon law, including, but not limited to, the Nyssa, Adrian, Ontario, Vale, Annex and Ironside districts.
YARD DEBRIS: Wood, needle or leaf materials from trees, shrubs or plants from the real property appurtenant to a dwelling of not more than four (4) family living units so long as such debris remains on the property of origin. Once yard debris is removed from the property of origin, it becomes commercial waste. Yard debris is included in the definition of domestic waste. (1989 Code; amd. Ord. 183, 10-7-2009)