As used in this Chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them:
(a) "Incinerator" means any device, apparatus, equipment or structure used for destroying, reducing or salvaging by fire any material or substance including but not limited to refuse, rubbish, garbage, trade waste, debris or scrap, or a facility for cremating animal remains.
(b) "Common incinerator" means an incinerator designed and used to burn waste materials of Types 0, 1, 2 and 3 only, in all capacities not exceeding two thousand (2,000) pounds per hour of waste material input.
(c) "Special incinerator" means a pathological waste or trade waste incinerator of any burning capacity, or any incinerator with a burning capacity in excess of two thousand (2,000) pounds per hour.
(d) "Person" means any individual, firm or corporation, and includes the owner of a building in connection with which an incinerator exists, as well as a person directly responsible for the daily operation of an incinerator.
(e) "Pathological waste incinerator" means an incinerator designed and used to burn Type 4 waste materials, in all burning capacities.
(f) "Trade waste incinerator" means an incinerator designed and used to burn waste material primarily of Types 5 and 6, either separately or together with waste materials of Types 0, 1, and 3.
(g) "Type 0 waste" means trash, a mixture of highly combustible waste such as paper, cardboard, cartons, wood boxes and combustible floor sweepings, containing approximately ten percent (10%) moisture and five percent (5%) incombustible solids, and having a heating value of approximately eight thousand five hundred (8,500) BTU per pound as fired, and deriving from commercial and industrial activities. The mixture contains up to ten percent (10%) by weight of plastic bags, coated paper, laminated paper, treated corrugated cardboard, oily rags and plastic or rubber scraps.
(h) “Type 1 waste" means rubbish, a mixture of combustible waste such as paper, cardboard, cartons, wood scraps, foliage and combustible floor sweepings, containing approximately twenty-five percent (25%) moisture and ten percent (10%) incombustible solids, and having a heating value of approximately six thousand five hundred (6,500) BTU per pound as fired, and deriving from domestic, commercial and industrial activities. The mixture contains up to twenty percent (20%) by weight of restaurant or cafeterial waste, but contains little or no treated paper, plastic or rubber wastes.
(i) "Type 2 waste" means refuse, consisting of an approximately even mixture of rubbish and garbage by weight, containing up to fifty percent (50%) moisture and approximately seven percent (7%) incombustible solids, and having a heating value of approximately four thousand three hundred (4,300) BTU per pound as fired, and commonly deriving from apartment and residential occupancy.
(j) "Type 3 waste" means garbage, consisting of animal and vegetable wastes containing up to seventy percent (70%) moisture and up to five percent (5%) incombustible solids and having a heating value of approximately two thousand five hundred (2,500) BTU per pound as fired and deriving from restaurants, cafeterias, hotels, hospitals, markets and like installations.
(k) "Type 4 waste" means animal remains, consisting of carcasses, organs and solid organic wastes from hospitals, laboratories, animal pounds and similar sources, consisting of up to eighty-five percent (85%) moisture and approximately five percent (5%) incombustible solids, and having a heating value of approximately two thousand five hundred (2,500) BTU per pound as fired.
(l) "Type 5 waste" means byproduct waste, gaseous, liquid or semiliquid, such as tar, paints, solvents, sludge, fumes, etc., from industrial operations.
(m) "Type 6 waste" means solid byproduct waste, such as rubber, plastics, wood waste, etc., from industrial operations.
(n) "Multiple-chamber incinerator" means an incinerator with two (2) or more refractory-lined combustion chambers in series, physically separated by refractory walls, interconnected by gas passages, and employing adequate design parameters necessary for maximum combustion of the waste materials, both chambers being auxiliary fuel-fired.
(o) "New incinerator" means an incinerator installed or constructed after the effective date of this Chapter.
(p) "Existing incinerator" means an incinerator installed or constructed before the effective date of this Chapter.
(q) "Division" means the Building Division of the City.
(r) "Single flue-fed incinerator" means an incinerator provided with a single flue which serves as both the charging chute and the flue to transport products of combustion to the atmosphere.
(s) "Particles" means any material, except uncombined water, which exists in a finely divided form as liquid particles or solid particles at standard conditions.
(t) "Liquid particles" means particles which have volume but are not of rigid shape and which upon collection tend to coalesce and create uniform homogeneous films upon the surface of the collecting media.
(u) "Solid particles" means particles of rigid shape and definite volume.
(v) "Standard conditions" means seventy (70) degrees and one (1) atmosphere pressure (14.7 psia or 760 mm Hg).
(w) "Auxiliary fuel" means other than waste materials used to attain temperatures sufficiently high to:
(1) Dry and ignite waste materials.
(2) Maintain ignition thereof; or
(3) Effect complete combustion of combustible solids, vapors and gases.
(x) "Smoke" means small gasborne and airborne particles arising from a process of combustion in sufficient number to be observable.
(y) "Ringelmann Smoke Chart" means the Ringelmann Scale for Grading the Density of Smoke, published by the U.S. Bureau of Mines or any chart, recorder, indicator or device for the measurement of smoke density which is approved by the Department as the equivalent of such Ringelmann Scale.
(z) "Control apparatus" means any device which prevents or controls the emission of air contaminant.
(aa) "Director" means the Community Development Director.
(Ord. No. 42-72. Passed 5/22/72.)