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As used in this chapter
(a) "Waste" means all trash, rubbish, garbage, offal and other refuse or discarded matter required to be removed from private and public places. It shall not include recognized by-products of any business or industry having commercial value and regularly handled in the ordinary course of business, unless such by-products, or the handling of them, shall become a nuisance or menace to the public health.
(b) "Combustible waste" means all waste substances capable of incineration or burning, including garbage, paper, rags, excelsior, wood, grass, leaves and the like.
(c) "Noncombustible waste" means all waste substances incapable of incineration or burning, including tin cans, tinware and other metallic substances, bottles, glassware, earthenware, ashes and similar materials, and also discarded articles the greater part of which is incapable of incineration or burning, such as asphalt roofing material, electric batteries and the like.
(d) "Garbage" means all putrescible wastes, including vegetable and animal offal, carcasses of dead animals and the like, but excluding recognized industrial byproducts.
(e) "Ashes" means the residue of combustion of such fuels as wood, coal, coke, charcoal and the like.
(f) "Commercial waste" means all wastes, combustible and noncombustible, arising out of the operations of business and industry and all other wastes not resulting from the ordinary operations of private residences or households.
(Ord. 31-61. Passed 3-6-61.)
(g) "Refuse bin" means a metal receptacle having an internal volume of one cubic yard or greater, by actual measurement, which temporarily receives and holds refuse for ultimate disposal, either by unloading into the body or loading hopper of a refuse collection vehicle or by other means.
(h) "Internal volume" means the actual volumetric capacity of the container. This may not necessarily correspond to the nominal size rating used by industry.
(i) "Tip over" means that during the application of either test force described in Section 737.08(a), the refuse bin begins to rotate forward about its forwardmost ground supports.
(Ord. 37-80. Passed 4-7-80.)
(a) No person, firm or corporation shall engage in the business of collection and disposition of waste, combustible waste, noncombustible waste, garbage, ashes, commercial waste and all other refuse or discarded material within the City unless a permit to do so has first been obtained by such person from the Director of Public Service for such purposes.
Upon payment of a fee as set out in Chapter 185 of the Administrative Code (the General Fee Schedule) for each vehicle operated in connection with such business within the City per year or any part thereof, and the furnishing of evidence of compliance with State law relating to workmen's compensation, and the submission of a policy or policies of public liability and property damage insurance, to the approval of the Solicitor, protecting the City as a named additional insured to the extent of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for an individual accident, three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) for a collective accident and twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) property damage arising out of the contractual use of the City incinerator and/or dumping sites, the Director of Public Service shall issue to the applicant a windshield sticker indicating the issuance of the permit herein required.
(b) Each operator of a vehicle used in connection with such business shall secure from the office of the Director of Public Safety a registration certificate, as provided for in Chapter 757.
(c) If no contractual and permitted use of the City incinerator and/or dumping sites is made, the insurance required shall be one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for an individual accident, three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) for a collective accident and twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) property damage, except that the City shall not be named in such policy of insurance. However, all other provisions shall be complied with before the permit is issued.
(d) The aforementioned windshield sticker shall be of such size and composition as meets the approval of the Director of Public Service and the Purchasing Agent and shall be inscribed "Private Waste Hauler Permit, Parma, Ohio, NO. ______________" indicating in the blank space the number of the permit and the year in force, and such other information as the City desires. Such windshield sticker shall be securely placed on the inside of the windshield of the truck to which the permit is issued in such a way as to be in plain view.
(e) Nothing contained in this section shall be deemed to apply to the hauling of waste from premises within the City by the owner or tenant of such premises except when such owner or tenant performs such services for hire.
(f) This section shall be effective for collection or renewal of licenses July 1 of each year, commencing July 1, 1961.
(Ord. 83-61. Passed 6-19-61.)
No person, firm or corporation shall use, suffer or permit to be used any vehicle in transporting and conducting waste, garbage, combustible waste, noncombustible waste, ashes or commercial waste unless such vehicle is tightly constructed and equipped with a closely fitted cover and unless such vehicle is tightly covered at all times except when the same is being loaded or unloaded. No person, firm or corporation shall load or drive, or cause to be loaded or driven, on any public way in the City any such vehicle containing any such materials so as to suffer or permit any part of the contents of such vehicle to fall, spill or leak therefrom.
(Ord. 33-61. Passed 3-6-61.)
No owner of, or person, firm or corporation in possession or control of, any vehicle used for carrying or transporting the materials defined in Section 737.01 shall permit such vehicle to stand or be stored or kept in such manner or for such length of time that it will constitute a nuisance. All persons, firms or corporations in possession of or in control of such vehicles shall cause such vehicles to be cleaned at least once a week while in use and kept clean when not in use.
(Ord. 34-61. Passed 3-6-61.)
No collection of garbage and refuse shall be made at establishments of a commercial or industrial nature which abut property used for residential purposes, except between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. daily.
(Ord. 234-78. Passed 10-16-78.)
(a) Any refuse bin of metal construction produced or distributed for sale to, or for the personal use, consumption or enjoyment of, consumers, in or around a permanent or temporary household or residence, a school, in recreation or otherwise, which is in commerce or being distributed in commerce on or after the effective date of this ban and which has an actual internal volume of one cubic yard or greater and tips over when tested under the conditions specified in Section 737.07 using the procedures described in Section 737.08, is a banned hazardous product and its use is hereby prohibited.
(b) A refuse bin is considered capable of tipping over when it begins to rotate forward about its forwardmost ground supports.
(Ord. 37-80. Passed 4-7-80.)
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