BUSINESS. An employer, self-employed individual, trust, firm, joint stock company, corporation, partnership, or association, and also includes a business organized for profit and a nonprofit business.
BUSINESS PLAN. A separate plan for each facility, site or branch of a business that meets the requirements of Health and Safety Code § 25504.
HANDLE. To use, generate, process, produce, package, treat, store, emit, discharge or dispose of a hazardous material in any fashion.
HANDLER. Any business that handles a hazardous material.
HAZARDOUS MATERIAL. Any material that, because of its quantity, concentration or physical or chemical characteristics poses a significant present or potential hazard to human health and safety or to the environment if released into the workplace or the environment. HAZARDOUS MATERIALS include, but are not limited to, hazardous substances, hazardous waste and any material that a handler or the CUPA has a reasonable basis for believing would be injurious to the health and safety of persons or harmful to the environment if released into the workplace or the environment.
RELEASE. Any spilling, overfilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping, or disposing into the environment.
(Ord. 3846, passed - -2002)