For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
DISPOSABLE PACKAGE OR CONTAINER. All packages or containers defined as such by rules and regulations adopted by the Department of Health and Environmental Control (see S.C. Code § 44-67-10).
LITTER. All waste materials including, but not limited to, disposable packages or containers, trash, garbage, or refuse, including the waste of the primary processes of mining, logging, saw milling, and trimming remnants.
LITTER RECEPTACLE. Those containers adopted by the Department of Health and Environmental Control which may be standardized as to size, shape, capacity, and color, and which may bear a state or county anti-litter symbol, as well as any other receptacle suitable for the depositing of litter.
OPEN DUMP. A land disposal site for solid waste which does not qualify for a sanitary land field.
PERSON. An individual, partnership, co- partnership, cooperative, firm, company, public or private corporation, political subdivision, agency of the state, trust, estate, joint structure company, or any other legal entity or its legal representative, agent, or assigns.
PUBLIC PLACE. Any area that is used or held out for use by the public whether owned and operated by public or private interest.
SANITARY LANDFILL. A method of disposing of solid waste on land without creating pollution, nuisances, environmental threats, or hazards to public health and safety.
SOLID WASTE. Any garbage, refuse, or sludge from a waste treatment facility, water supply plant, or air pollution control facility and other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semi-solid, or contained gaseous materials resulting from the industrial, commercial, mining, and agricultural operations, and from community activities. The term does not include solid or dissolved materials in domestic sewage, or solid or dissolved materials from irrigation return flows, or industrial discharges, which are point sources subject to NPDES permits under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act as amended, or the pollution control acts of the state as amended, or a source from special nuclear or by-product material as defined by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 as amended.
VEHICLE. Every device capable of being moved upon a public highway and in, upon or by which any personal property is or may be transported or drawn upon a public highway, except devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.
WATERCRAFT. Any boat, ship, vessel, barge or any other floating craft.
(Ord. 93-04, passed 4-13-93; Am. Ord. 02-03, passed 4-1-02)