For the purpose of this chapter the following words and phrases shall have the meanings herein ascribed:
ASHES: The solid waste products of coal, wood and other fuels used for heating and cooking, from all public and private establishments and from all residences.
BULKY WASTE: Large appliances, including stoves, water tanks, washing machines, or furniture, and other waste materials with weights or volumes greater than those allowed for containers, which may be collected separately. Bulky waste does not include construction debris and demolition waste, dead animals, hazardous materials, or stable matter.
CANS: All aluminum, steel and tin coated cans.
CARRYOUT SERVICE: A service by which contractor's collection personnel enter a residential customer's property to collect solid waste and recyclable materials. This service may include an additional fee.
CITY: The city of Mountain Home, Idaho.
COMMERCIAL: An establishment used for sales, office, manufacturing, production, entertainment, service or a similar use, whether for profit or not. Includes for profit and not for profit enterprises operated in residences or other structures, institutions, agricultural operations, short term housing, such as hotels and motels, mobile home parks, and any apartment or other multi-unit complexes in excess of four (4) residential units.
CONSTRUCTION DEBRIS: Waste building materials resulting from construction, remodeling, repair, or demolition operations.
CONTAINER: A can, bag, wheeled trash tote or other authorized receptacle designed to prevent spillage or leakage of trash or recyclables. May be customer owned or contractor supplied.
CONTRACTOR: The person or company with whom the city has entered into a contract to provide waste contractor services for the city.
CORRUGATED CARDBOARD: Paper in which a portion has been made to have a wavy surface, alternating ridges and grooves, and is placed between two (2) flat surfaces for the sake of strength and which is commonly used to form boxes.
COUNCIL: Mountain Home city council.
COUNTY: The county of Elmore, Idaho.
CUSTOMER: An occupant or owner of any residential or commercial premises, including a household, business, institution or other establishment in the service area for which solid waste and/or recycling service is or has been provided.
DWELLING: A separate household or residence, including residential units up to a fourplex, located in the service area, occupied by a person or group of persons and not used for commercial purposes, which provides for waste and/or recycling collection in customer owned containers or contractor supplied wheeled trash totes. Each household or residence is billed as an individual unit.
FORCE MAJEURE: Acts of God or the public enemy, fire, floods, epidemics, earthquakes, acts of terrorism, quarantine restrictions, labor stoppages, and strikes not created by contractor.
GARBAGE: All putrescible wastes, from all public and private establishments and from all residences except sewage and body wastes, animal offal and carcasses of dead animals, and recognized industrial byproducts.
GLASS: All bottles and jars, made of silica, sand, soda ash, and limestone, being transparent or translucent, used for packaging or bottling of various materials.
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS: Any chemical, compound, mixture, substance, or article which is designated by the United States environmental protection agency or appropriate agency of the state of Idaho to be hazardous as defined by or pursuant to federal or state law.
HOUSEHOLD: A separate dwelling or residence, including residential units up to a fourplex, located in the service area, occupied by a person or group of persons and not used for commercial purposes, which provides for waste and/or recycling collection in customer owned containers or contractor supplied wheeled trash totes. Each dwelling or residence is billed as an individual unit.
MAGAZINES: All magazines and catalogs.
MEDICAL WASTE: Waste which may contain infectious agents generated or produced as a result of the diagnosis, treatment or immunization of human beings or animals, or related research, including, but not limited to, noncontainerized sharps, infectious laboratory waste, waste from the production of bacteria, viruses or spores, human surgery specimens, infectious animal parts, or trace amounts of chemotherapeutic agents affixed to items used for the administration of same. This definition of medical waste excludes de minimis quantities of containerized sharps or other medical waste.
MIXED PAPER: All paper, junk mail, envelopes and cereal boxes.
MOTOR OIL: All petroleum based or synthetic oil that is used as a lubricant for internal combustion engines.
MOTOR VEHICLES: Any vehicle which is self-propelled and designed to travel along the ground and shall include, but not be limited to, automobiles, buses, motor bikes, motorcycles, motor scooters, trucks, tractors, go-carts, golf carts, campers and trailers.
MULTI-FAMILY COMPLEX: A building or a group of buildings or structures in the service area with two (2) or more units, with trash and recycling collection in centralized commercial sized customer owned or contractor supplied containers, excluding wheeled trash totes. All units are billed collectively on one bill.
NEWSPAPERS: All newsprint grade paper, including inserts which come in the newspaper.
PLASTICS: All plastic bottles with threaded necks and: a) 1 PETE (polyethylene terephthalate); b) 2 HDPE (high density polyethylene); or c) 3 V (polyvinyl chloride) on them.
PREMISES: Land, buildings or other structures or parts thereof upon or in which refuse is stored.
RECYCLABLE MATERIALS: All materials, as designated herein, which have passed through their originally intended usage and which have been discarded or placed for collection by their owner and that would otherwise become solid waste and can be source separated, collected, processed, and returned to the economic stream in the form of raw materials or products whether or not such products have monetary value.
RECYCLING RECEPTACLE: Tote or container serving as a receptacle for recyclable materials.
REFUSE: All solid wastes of the community, including garbage, rubbish, ashes, swill and all other putrescible and nonputrescible wastes except sewage, from all public and private establishments and residences.
RESIDENT OR OWNER: Every person, including lessees and occupants, in possession, charge, custody, or control of any residence or commercial establishment within the service area where solid waste and/or recyclable materials are accumulated.
RESIDENTIAL: Includes single-family units, duplexes, triplexes and fourplexes.
RUBBISH: All nonputrescible wastes including, but not limited to, paper, cartons, boxes, barrels, wood, wood furniture, bedding, metals, tin cans, metal frames, automobile frames and parts, quantities of rock, pieces of concrete, glass, crockery and other mineral wastes except for ashes, from all public and private establishments and from all residences. Provided, further, that rubbish shall not include earth and waste from building operations, nor shall it include solid wastes resulting from industrial processes and manufacturing operations.
SERVICE AREA: Incorporated areas of the city of Mountain Home. Includes all properties owned by the city.
SOLID WASTE: Trash generated by residential, industrial, commercial, institutional and agricultural customers, excluding hazardous materials.
STABLE MATTER: All manure and other waste matter normally accumulated in or about a stable or any animal, livestock, or poultry enclosure, and resulting from the keeping of animals, poultry, or livestock. Stable matter is considered commercial waste.
SWILL: Every refuse accumulation of animal, fruit or vegetable matter, liquid or otherwise, that attends the preparation, use, cooking, dealing in or storing of meat, fish, fowl, fruit and vegetables, except coffee grounds, animal offal and carcasses of dead animals.
TOTE: A plastic trash container that is ninety five (95) gallons in size with wheels and handles for easy movement to and from the curb, and with an attached lid.
TRASH: Solid matter of animal, vegetable, metal or other materials discarded for landfilling, including bulky waste, construction and demolition waste, and dead animals weighing ten (10) pounds or less. The definition of trash specifically excludes materials that have been properly set aside because they contain hazardous materials, medical waste, and/or dead animals weighing over ten (10) pounds.
WASTE CONTRACTOR: The person or company appointed by the city to oversee the city's solid waste management system.
WASTE MATERIAL(S): Solid waste, yard waste and recyclable materials.
YARD: A measurement of the cubic volume of solid waste and recyclable material.
YARD WASTES: Plant materials (grass, branches, brush, flowers, tree wood waste, etc.) commonly thrown away in the course of maintaining yards and gardens, and other biodegradable waste, including leaves and Christmas trees. (Ord. 1588, 9-24-2012)