The following definitions shall apply to this chapter unless the context of this chapter clearly applies to the contrary. If possible, the following definitions shall be used to supplement the definitions given in other parts of this code:
AGRICULTURAL WASTE: Any refuse, except garbage and dead animals, generated on a farm or ranch by crop and livestock production practices including such items as bags, cartons, dry bedding, structural materials and crop residues but excluding landscape wastes.
CLEAN WOOD BUILDING DEBRIS: The wooden remains of a building. The term excludes rubber, asphalt and nonwooden materials.
DISASTER: A major disaster declared by the president of the United States or the governor of Illinois.
DISASTER AREA: An area in which a major disaster has been declared by the president of the United States or the governor of Illinois.
DOMICILE WASTE: Any refuse generated on single-family domiciliary property as a result of domiciliary activities. The term excludes landscape waste, garbage and trade waste.
GARBAGE: Waste resulting from the handling, processing, preparation, cooking, and consumption of food, and wastes from the handling, processing, storage, and sale of produce.
HOUSEHOLD WASTE: Any solid waste (including garbage, trash, and sanitary waste in septic tanks) derived from households (including single and multiple residences, hotels and motels, bunkhouses, ranger stations, crew quarters, campgrounds, picnic grounds, and day use recreation areas).
LANDSCAPE WASTE: All accumulations of grass or shrubbery cuttings, leaves, tree limbs and other materials accumulated as the result of the care of lawns, shrubbery, vines and trees.
MUNICIPAL WASTE: Garbage, general household and commercial waste, industrial lunchroom or office waste, landscape waste, and construction or demolition debris.
OPEN BURNING: A. The combustion of any matter in the open or in an open dump.
B. The term is also the combustion of any matter in such a way that the products of the combustion are permitted to the open air without originating in or passing through equipment for which a permit could be issued under section 9(b) of the Illinois environmental protection act 2 .
REFUSE: Waste.
RESTRICTED AREA: The area within the boundaries of the village, plus a zone extending one mile beyond the boundaries of the village.
SOLID WASTE: Waste.
TRADE WASTE: Any refuse resulting from the prosecution of any trade, business, industry, commercial venture, utility or service activity, and any governmental or institutional activity, whether or not for profit. The term includes landscape waste but excludes agricultural waste.
WASTE: Any garbage, sludge from a waste treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility; or other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining and agricultural operations, and from community activities, but does not include solid or dissolved materials in domestic sewage, or solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return flows, or "coal combustion byproducts" as defined in 415 Illinois Compiled Statutes 5/3.135, or industrial discharges which are point sources subject to permits under section 402 of the federal water pollution control act, as now or hereafter amended, or source, special nuclear, or byproduct materials as defined by the atomic energy act of 1954, as amended (68 Stat. 921) or any solid or dissolved material from any facility subject to the federal surface mining control and reclamation act of 1977 (Pub.L. 95-87), or the rules and regulations thereunder, or any law or rule or regulation adopted by the state of Illinois pursuant thereto. (Ord. 726, 12-21-1998; amd. 2012 Code)
Notes
| 1 | 1. 35 Ill. adm. code 237.101; 415 ILCS 5/3. |
| 2 | 1. 415 ILCS 5/9(b). |