As used in this Chapter:
(a) “Approved Refuse Bag” shall mean only the special plastic refuse bags, which have been pre-approved by the Village’s Refuse Contractor, and which subscribers may purchase from the Village at Village Hall.
(Ord. 17-113. Passed 4-14-17; Ord. 17-117. Passed 5-11-17.)
(b) "Asbestos-Containing Waste Materials" means those waste identified in Chapter 3734-20-01(b)(4) of the Ohio Administrative Code (OAC).
(c) "Commercial Operator: All persons, firms or corporations who own or operate stores, restaurants, industries, institutions and other similar places, including multi-family dwellings or multi-family residential structures containing four or more dwelling units. Commercial Operators are not required to subscribe to the Village's Refuse Contractor's service.
(d) "Container" means the approved containers or receptacles into which trash materials are placed by producers. All such receptacles are subject to standards set and approved by the Village Administrator.
(e) "Contract" means the Contract between the Village and a single solid waste hauler for the exclusive right to collect residential refuse in the Village of Middlefield.
(f) "Contractor" means the Village's Refuse Contractor and/or the Village's Recycling Contractor, as authorized by the Village for the exclusive collection of residential refuse and recycling materials.
(g) "Curbside" means that portion of the right-of-way adjacent to paved or traveled Village roadways, including the end of a driveway, curb line or alley line.
(h) "Garbage" means all putrescible waste (except human excreta, sewage and other water carried waste, including vegetable and animal offal and carcasses of dead animals) and shall include all such substances from all public and private establishments and from all residences.
(i) "Hazardous Waste" means those substances which, singularly or in combination, pose a significant present or potential threat to human health or to the environment, and which singularly or in combination, require special handling, processing or disposal because they are or may be flammable, explosive, reactive, corrosive, toxic, carcinogenic, bio-concentrative or persistent in nature, potentially lethal or an irritant or strong sensitizer.
(j) "Holidays". The following shall be holidays for purposes of solid waste garbage and rubbish collection: New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. The Village's Refuse Contractor shall not collect solid waste garbage and rubbish on the above listed holidays but shall start collection the day immediately following the holiday and continue its operation during the same week that the holiday occurs in until all solid waste garbage and rubbish collection is complete.
(k) "Multi-family residence or apartment" means the grouping together of four or more billing units under a common roof.
(l) "Occupied Residential Unit": A residential unit shall be deemed occupied when water utility service is being supplied thereto.
(m) "Pickup Location" means the location agreed to between the Village's Refuse Contractor and the Subscriber, and is the location where the Subscriber shall place his or her trash for pickup and the Village's Refuse Contractor shall pickup said trash.
(n) "Premises" means the land or buildings or both, occupied, by a householder or a commercial operator.
(o) "Producer" means an occupant of a residential unit who generates trash and/or recyclable material.
(p) "Solid Waste" means such unwanted residual solid or semi-solid materials as results from industrial, commercial, agricultural and community operations, excluding earth or material from construction, mining or demolition operations, or other waste materials of the type that would normally be in demolition debris, non-toxic fly ash, spent non-toxic foundry sand and slag and other substances that are not harmful or inimical to public health, and includes but is not limited to, garbage, combustible and non-combustible material, street dirt and debris. Solid waste does not include tires, any material that is an "infectious waste", a "hazardous waste", and "asbestos waste" or material defined under "recyclable material". The definition of solid waste shall include all garbage and rubbish as defined herein.
(q) "Subscriber" means any resident of the Village, or owner of rental property in the Village who is required to have trash collected by the Village's Refuse Contractor. Residential Unit defines those properties whose owner shall become a Subscriber and which are required by the terms of this Contract to have their garbage and rubbish collected.
(r) "Recyclable Material". This term shall refer to recyclable materials in the form of glass, aluminum and steel containers, magazines, phone books, junk mail, mixed paper, newspaper, #1 and #2 plastics, and cardboard designated for removal from a residential or apartment unit. Additional materials may be designated by mutual agreement of the Recycling Contractor and the Village.
(s) "Residential Unit" shall include owner-occupied and/or rented single family dwellings, duplex, triplex, boarding houses or other similar buildings with one or more billed units grouped under a common roof with facilities used or intended to be used by a single family for living, sleeping, cooking and eating purposes. Non-Residential Units are all units not defined above and will not be required to subscribe to the Village Refuse Contractor's service. All occupied Residential Units are required to have their garbage collected by the Village's Contractor, and to reimburse the Village for said service.
(t) "Rubbish" means ashes, glass, crockery, tin cans, paper, boxes, rags and old clothing and all other similar non-putrescible wastes. The term "rubbish" shall not include any material such as earth, sand, brick, stone, plaster or other similar substances that may accumulate as a result of construction or demolition operations. For the purpose of this definition, "material from construction operations or demolition operations" are those items affixed to the structure being constructed or demolished, such as brick, concrete, stone, glass, wall board, framing and finishing lumber, roofing materials, plumbing, plumbing fixtures, wiring and insulation, but excludes materials whose removal has been required prior to demolition. For the purpose of this definition, semi-solid material does not contain liquids which can be readily released under normal climatic conditions as determined by Methods 9095 (Paint Filter Liquids Test) in SW-846: "Test Methods for Evaluating Solid Wastes, Physical/Chemical Methods".
(u) "Trash" means the component of Solid Waste that includes garbage and rubbish as defined herein but does not include recyclable materials.
(v) "Village Administrator" means the duly-appointed Middlefield Village Administrator under Chapter 135 of the Codified Ordinances.
(w) "Village's Refuse Contractor" means the Contractor authorized by the Village for the collection of solid waste garbage and rubbish.
(x) “Village's Recycling Contractor" means the Contractor authorized by the Village for the collection of recyclable materials. Depending on contract awards, the Village's Refuse Contractor and the Village's Recycling Contractor may be the same entity.
(y) “Yard Waste" means leaves, grass clippings, weeds, bushes and brush and branch clippings.
(Ord. 16-145. Passed 3-9-17; Ord. 17-117. Passed 5-11-17.)