As used in this chapter:
(a) “Board of Health” means the Combined General Health District of Licking County, Ohio or the authority having the duties of the former Board of Health in the City Health District under authority of the Ohio Revised Code.
(b) “Commercial solid waste” means any solid waste which is generated by any commercial, industrial, manufacturing, business or public service operation, enterprise, institution or use, operated either for profit or not for profit. Representative generators of commercial solid waste include, but are not limited to, retail stores, groceries, restaurants, professional offices, theaters, garages, gasoline service stations, factories, warehouses, churches, schools, hospitals, libraries, banks, wholesalers, suppliers and all other uses of a similar nature.
(c) “Curbside” means the street curb in front of a residence or the alley adjacent to a residence or other location adjacent to a roadway or alley readily accessible to a solid waste enterprise.
(d) “Disposal” means the discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking or placing of any solid waste into or on any land or ground or surface water as the final disposition.
(e) “Domestic solid waste” means any solid waste which is generated through the usual and customary usage of a residence, including houses, mobile homes, apartments, condominiums and the like, when such are used exclusively for residence purposes, either temporary or permanent. Solid waste generated by a rental dwelling unit consisting of four separate dwelling units or less shall be considered to be “domestic solid waste.” Solid waste generated by the business of operating a rental dwelling unit consisting of more than four separate dwelling units shall be considered to be commercial solid waste.
(f) “Facility” means any site, location, tract of land, installation or building used for incineration, composting, sanitary landfilling or other methods of disposal of solid waste.
(g) “Garbage” means animal, fish, fowl, fruit or vegetable matter or waste resulting from the use, preparation or storage of food for human consumption.
(h) “Hazardous waste” means any waste or combination of waste in solid, liquid, semisolid or contained gaseous form that, in the determination of the Director of the Ohio Department of Health, the Health Commissioner, or its equivalent, in the Combined General Health District of Licking County, Ohio or the Director of Public Service, because of its quantity or concentration, or because of its physical, chemical or infectious characteristics, may:
(1) Cause or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible or incapacitating reversible illness; or
(2) Pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or safety or to the environment when improperly stored, treated, transported, disposed of or otherwise managed.
“Hazardous waste” includes any substance identified by regulation as hazardous waste under the “Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976,” 90 Stat. 2806, 42 USC 6921, as amended, but does not include any substance that is subject to the “Atomic Energy Act of 1954,” 68 Stat. 919, 23 USC 2011.
(i) “Health Commissioner” means the person occupying the office of the Health Commissioner, or its equivalent, in the Combined General Health District of Licking County, Ohio, under authority of the Ohio Revised Code, or his or her authorized representative.
(j) “Health Department” means the Health Department, or its equivalent, of the Combined General Health District of Licking County, Ohio.
(k) “Nonputrescible solid waste” means all solid waste other than putrescible solid waste.
(l) “Person” means the State, any political subdivision thereof, a public or private corporation, an individual, a partnership, a joint venture or any other entity recognized by law.
(m) “Premises” means any land, building or structure upon or in which solid waste may be permanently or temporarily stored, placed, accumulated, buried or disposed of.
(n) “Putrescible solid waste” means food waste from households and wholesale and retail food operations of all kinds, cannery wastes and all similar types of waste commonly known as garbage.
(o) “Recyclables” means used products subject to re-manufacture into new products. This includes newspapers, magazines, uncontaminated paper, cardboard, clean food containers, clean cans, clean glass and plastic containers, and other materials as may be designated by the City or the solid waste enterprise for recycling.
(p) “Refuse” means waste consisting of certain discarded products incident to housekeeping and commercial enterprises, including garbage and rubbish.
(q) “Rubbish” means miscellaneous waste material and refuse from housekeeping and ordinary mercantile enterprises. “Rubbish” includes packing boxes, cartons, excelsior, paper, ashes, cinders, tin cans, bottles, metals, leaves, tree trimmings, grass and soil or other debris accumulated from lawn and landscape maintenance.
(r) “Solid waste” means such unwanted, residual solid or semisolid material, including any liquid material which may be incident to or generated from the solid waste, that results from industrial, commercial, agricultural, residential and community operations, but excluding earth or material from construction, mining or demolition operations, or other waste materials of the type which would normally be included in demolition debris, nontoxic fly ash, spent nontoxic foundry sand, slag and other substances which are not harmful or inimical to the public health. Unless otherwise specifically designated, “solid waste” includes, but is not limited to, garbage, refuse, rubbish, putrescible solid waste, nonputrescible solid waste, domestic solid waste, commercial solid waste, combustible and noncombustible material, street dirt and other debris.
(s) “Solid waste enterprise” means any operation, enterprise, business or other activity, the purpose of which is to accept, pick up or collect solid waste from another in order to package, store, haul, transfer or otherwise dispose of such solid waste for a fee or other valuable consideration. Such operation, enterprise, business or other activity need not operate on a regularly scheduled route, hold its services out to the general public or perform in such a manner as to generate a net profit from its activity, so long as such services are performed for a fee or other valuable consideration. “Solid waste enterprise” includes a solid waste transfer station, but it does not include any person who accepts, picks up or collects solid waste in order to package, store, haul, transfer or otherwise dispose of such solid waste when such services are performed for his or her own benefit or for the benefit of others when he or she performs such services without charging a fee or other valuable consideration.
(t) “Solid waste transfer station” means a location, not at the point of solid waste generation, that is used to facilitate the transfer of waste from locally operated collection vehicles to vehicles intended to convey the material to the solid waste disposal site or facility. The transfer of such waste may be from vehicle to vehicle, or from vehicle to location to vehicle. “Registered solid waste transfer station” means any solid waste transfer station which has received a certificate of registration from the Health Commissioner, or its equivalent, in the Combined General Health District of Licking County, provided that the solid waste transfer station shall be registered only to the extent of the qualifications and limitations of the certificate of registration which is issued for the purpose stated by the Board of Health.
(Ord. 82-63. Passed 6-7-82; Ord. 14-20-A. Passed 8-4-14.)