For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
APPROVED INCINERATOR. Equipment or facilities for the enclosed burning of refuse having a stack adequate to maintain a draft sufficient for efficient combustion and equipped with a screen sufficiently fine to prevent ejection of particles of burning materials as approved by the state’s Department of Natural Resources Commission.
DISCARD. To place, cause to be placed, throw, deposit or drop.
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR. The Executive Director of the State Department of the Department of Natural Resources or the Director’s designee.
GARBAGE. All solid and semi-solid, putrescible animal and vegetable wastes 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 shall include all such substances from all public and private establishments and from all residences.
LANDSCAPE WASTE. Any vegetable or plant wastes, except garbage. The term includes trees, tree trimmings, branches, stumps, brush, weeds, leaves, grass, shrubbery and yard trimmings.
LITTER. Any garbage, rubbish, trash, refuse, waste materials or debris.
OPEN BURNING. Any burning of combustible materials where the products of combustion are emitted into the open air without passing through a chimney or stack.
OPEN DUMPING. The depositing of solid wastes on the surface of the ground or into a body or stream of water.
OWNER. In addition to the record title-holder 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.
REFUSE. Putrescible and non-putrescible wastes, including, but not limited to, garbage, rubbish, ashes, incinerator residues, street cleanings, market and industrial solid wastes and sewage treatment wastes in dry or semi-solid form.
RESIDENTIAL WASTE. Any refuse generated on the premises as a result of residential activities. The term includes landscape wastes grown on the premises or deposited thereon by the elements, but excludes garbage, tires and trade wastes.
RUBBISH. Non-putrescible solid waste consisting of combustible and non-combustible wastes, such as ashes, paper, cardboard, tin cans, yard clippings, wood, glass bedding, crockery or litter of any kind.
RUBBLE. Stone, brick or similar inorganic material.
SALVAGE OPERATION. Any business, industry or trade engaged wholly or in part in salvaging or reclaiming any product or material, including, but not limited to, chemicals, drums, metals, motor vehicles or shipping containers.
SANITARY DISPOSAL PROJECT. 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 executive director.
SANITARY DISPOSAL. A method of treating solid waste so that it does not produce a hazard to the public health or safety or create a nuisance.
SOLID WASTE. Garbage, refuse, rubbish and other similar discarded solid or semi-solid materials, including, but not limited to, such materials resulting from industrial, commercial, agricultural and domestic activities. SOLID WASTE may include vehicles, as defined by Iowa Code § 321.1, sub. 1.
TOXIC AND HAZARDOUS WASTES. 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.
(2011 Code, § 25.0102) (Ord. 2197, passed 9-25-2012)