1. Building means any structure designed, built, or occupied as a shelter or roofed enclosure for persons, animals, or property, which is permanently affixed to land.
2. Commercial means any use having profit as an objective.
3. Commercial Customer means a person or persons engaged in business, including, but not limited to, stores, markets, offices, restaurants, shopping centers, theaters, hotels, motels, campgrounds, kennels, and nurseries.
4. Commercial Waste is waste generated by commercial customers.
5. Conditional License means a license issued in lieu of the regular license in the event that violations of the Ordinance, other than those that require immediate abatement, prohibit the issuance or maintenance of the regular, annual license.
6. County means the County of McHenry, Illinois.
7. Department means the McHenry County Department of Health.
8. Discarded Materials mean all putrescible and non-putrescible municipal wastes discarded from any residential dwelling unit or commercial source including municipal waste, recyclable materials, mandatory recyclable materials and compostable materials.
9. Dwelling, Multi-Family means a building containing three (3) or more dwelling units used for residential occupancy, including apartment houses, non-transient apartment hotels, rooming houses, boarding houses, fraternities, sororities, dormitories and similar housing types but not including hotels, motels, hospitals and foster family homes.
10. Dwelling, Single Family means a detached building containing only one (1) dwelling unit.
11. Dwelling, Two Family means a building containing two (2) dwelling units each with completely separate entrances.
12. Dwelling Unit means one (1) or more rooms in a residential building which are arranged, designed or used as living quarters for one (1) family. Bathroom and kitchen facilities are permanently installed.
13. Household Waste means any solid waste (including garbage and trash,) derived from households (including single and multiple residences, hotels, motels, bunkhouses, ranger stations, crew quarters, campgrounds, picnic grounds, and day-use recreation areas).
14. Institutional Waste means waste generated at institutions, such as schools, libraries, hospitals, and prisons
15. Landscape Waste means all accumulations of grass or shrubbery cuttings, leaves, tree limbs, and other materials accumulated as the result of the care of lawns, shrubbery, vines and trees. Christmas trees are excluded.
16. Licensed Hauler means any person or persons duly licensed in accordance with this Ordinance and other such applicable ordinances of the County now or hereafter in effect.
17. Mandated Residential Recyclable Materials mean materials that are mandated by the McHenry County Residential Recycling Ordinance to be separated from discarded materials for the purpose of recycling, including but not limited to, aluminum cans, steel cans, newsprint, corrugated cardboard, plastic, mixed fiber (including magazines, high grade printing and writing papers, phone books, and chipboard), and glass containers.
18. Municipal Waste Hauler means any person or persons who engages in the business of collecting or hauling discarded materials on a regular basis, and who makes multiple scheduled collections per month within the County.
19. Occupant means a person or persons residing in residential dwelling units which have either curbside, alley or centrally located collection services.
20. Person means any individual, partnership, co-partnership, firm, company, corporation, association, joint stock company, trust, estate, legal entity or their legal representative(s), agent(s), or assign(s).
21. Pricing, Flat or Fixed Rate means a system in which the customer pays a fixed fee for waste collection that is not related to the volume of waste disposed.
22. Pricing, Pay-as-you-throw means a system in which the cost to the customer for waste collection is based on the number and size of containers or bags set out for pick-up, or through the purchase of special trash bags, tags or stickers that include the cost of waste collection in the purchase price.
23. Pricing, Volume Based means a system in which the cost to the customer for waste collection increases as the volume or weight of the municipal waste disposed of by the customer increases.
24. Recyclable Materials mean materials that are separated from discarded materials for the purpose of recycling, including but not limited to, aluminum and tin cans, newspapers, corrugated cardboard, high grade printing and writing papers, magazines, landscape waste, plastic and glass containers.
25. Recycling means the process by which municipal waste is collected, separated and processed for reuse as either a raw material or a product which itself is subject to recycling, but does not include the combustion of municipal waste for energy recovery or volume reduction.
26. Refuse means garbage, general household, institutional and commercial waste, industrial lunchroom or office waste, landscape waste, and construction or demolition debris.
27. Residential, Dwelling Unit means a single, two, or multi-family dwelling.
28. Septage means the liquid and solid material removed from domestic septic tanks or other approved pretreatment systems, and specifically excluding wastes from portable toilets, holding tanks, grease traps and sewage treatment sludge material.
29. Solid Waste Management Plan means the officially adopted McHenry County plan and subsequent updates pursuant to the Illinois Solid Waste Planning and Recycling Act for the management of municipal waste generated within its boundaries.
30. Solid Waste Manager means the person hired by the Department to oversee the implementation and management of municipal waste programs as specified within the Solid Waste Management Plan.
31. State means the State of Illinois.
(Ord. O-200106-10-41, passed 6-19-2001; Ord. O-201411-51-046, § 202, passed 11-18-2014)