105.01 Purpose | 105.07 Open Dumping Prohibited |
105.02 Definitions | 105.08 Toxic and Hazardous Waste |
105.03 Sanitary Disposal Required | 105.09 Waste Storage Containers |
105.04 Health and Fire Hazard | 105.10 Prohibited Practices |
105.05 Open Burning Restricted | 105.11 Sanitary Disposal Project Designated |
105.06 Littering Prohibited | 105.12 Disposal of Yard Waste |
The purpose of the chapters in this Code of Ordinances pertaining to Solid Waste Control and Collection is to provide for the sanitary storage, collection and disposal of solid waste and, thereby, to protect the citizens of the City from such hazards to their health, safety and welfare as may result from the uncontrolled disposal of solid waste.
For use in these chapters the following terms are defined:
1. “Back yard burning” means the disposal of residential waste by open burning on the premises of the property where such waste is generated.
2. “Discard” means to place, cause to be placed, throw, deposit or drop.
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 455B.361[2])
3. “Garbage” means all solid and semisolid, putrescible animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparing, cooking, storing, serving and consuming of food or of material intended for use as food, and all offal, excluding useful industrial by-products, and includes all such substances from all public and private establishments and from all residences.
(IAC, 567-100.2)
4. “Litter” means any garbage, rubbish, trash, refuse, waste materials or debris.
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 455B.361[1])
5. “Open burning” means any burning of combustible materials where the products of combustion are emitted into the open air without passing through a chimney or stack.
6. “Open dumping” means the depositing of solid waste on the surface of the ground or into a body or stream of water.
7. “Owner” means, in addition to the record titleholder, any person residing in, renting, leasing, occupying, operating or transacting business in any premises, and as between such parties the duties, responsibilities, liabilities and obligations hereinafter imposed shall be joint and several.
8. “Refuse” means putrescible and non-putrescible waste, including but not limited to garbage, rubbish, ashes, incinerator residues, street cleanings, market and industrial solid waste and sewage treatment waste in dry or semisolid form.
(IAC, 567-100.2)
9. “Residential waste” means any refuse generated on the premises as a result of residential activities. The term includes yard waste grown on the premises or deposited thereon by the elements, but excludes garbage, tires and trade wastes.
10. “Rubbish” means non-putrescible solid waste consisting of combustible and non-combustible waste, such as ashes, paper, cardboard, tin cans, yard clippings, wood, glass, bedding, crockery or litter of any kind.
(IAC, 567-100.2)
11. “Sanitary disposal” means a method of treating solid waste so that it does not produce a hazard to the public health or safety or create a nuisance.
(IAC, 567-100.2)
12. “Sanitary disposal project” means all facilities and appurtenances including all real and personal property connected with such facilities, which are acquired, purchased, constructed, reconstructed, equipped, improved, extended, maintained, or operated to facilitate the final disposition of solid waste without creating a significant hazard to the public health or safety, and which are approved by the Director of the State Department of Natural Resources.
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 455B.301)
13. “Solid waste” means garbage, refuse, rubbish, and other similar discarded solid or semisolid materials, including but not limited to such materials resulting from industrial, commercial, agricultural, and domestic activities. Solid waste may include vehicles, as defined by subsection one of Section 321.1 of the Code of Iowa.
14. “Toxic and hazardous wastes” means waste materials, including but not limited to poisons, pesticides, herbicides, acids, caustics, pathological wastes, flammable or explosive materials and similar harmful wastes which require special handling and which must be disposed of in such a manner as to conserve the environment and protect the public health and safety.
15. “Yard waste” means debris such as grass clippings, leaves, garden waste, brush and trees, tree trimmings, branches, weeds, shrubbery and yard trimmings. Yard waste does not include tree stumps.
It is the duty of each owner to provide for the sanitary disposal of all refuse accumulating on the owner’s premises before it becomes a nuisance. Any such accumulation remaining on any premises for a period of more than thirty (30) days shall be deemed a nuisance and the City may proceed to abate such nuisances in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 50 or by initiating proper action in district court.
(Code of Iowa, Ch. 657)
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