§ 50.002 DEFINITIONS.
   Unless the contrary is stated or clearly appears from the context, the following definitions govern the construction of the words and phrases used in this chapter. Words and phrases not given a meaning by this chapter have the meaning set forth in the Act and the regulations promulgated to implement the Act, if defined therein, and if not, to the definitions found in SB 1383 and RCRA and their implementing regulations, as amended.
   AB 939 or ACT. The California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989, codified in part at Cal. Public Resources Code, §§ 40000 et seq., as amended.
   BLUE CONTAINER. Has the same meaning as in 14 CCR § 18982.2(a)(5) and shall be used for the purpose of storage and collection of source separated recyclable materials or source separated blue container organic waste.
   BLUE CONTAINER WASTE. Source separated recyclable materials or source separated blue container organic waste.
   BULKY WASTE or BULKY GOODS. Means and includes, without limitation, large and small household appliances, furniture, carpets, mattresses, white goods, tires and oversized organic waste such as tree trunks and large branches not larger than two feet in diameter and four feet in length, discarded from residential premises in the city.
   CALRECYCLE. California's Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, which is the department designated with responsibility for developing, implementing, and enforcing SB 1383 Regulations on the city (and others).
   CCR. The California Code of Regulations.
   CERCLA. The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act as set forth at 42 U.S.C. §§ 9601 et seq., as amended.
   CITY. The City of Santa Paula, California.
   CITY MANAGER. The City Manager or his or her designee.
   COLLECTION. The act of collecting solid waste, at or near the place of generation or accumulation, by the city or a franchisee which arranged with a responsible person for collection of solid waste.
   COMMERCIAL BINS. Bins provided by the city or a franchisee, generally having a volume of three cubic yards, designed for the deposit of solid waste, placed at commercial premises for collection of commercial solid waste and charged at commercial rates. COMMERCIAL BINS do not include construction and demolition bins, roll-offs, or lowboys
placed at residential premises.
   COMMERCIAL BUSINESS. A firm, partnership, proprietorship, joint-stock company, corporation, or association, whether for-profit or nonprofit, strip mall, industrial facility, or a multi-family residential dwelling, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR § 18982(a)(6). A multi-family residential dwelling that consists of fewer than five units is not a commercial business for purposes of implementing SB 1383 regulations under this chapter.
   COMMERCIAL EDIBLE FOOD GENERATOR. Includes a tier one or a tier two commercial edible food generator as defined in this chapter or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR § 18982(a)(73) and (a)(74). For the purposes of this definition, food recovery organizations and food recovery services are not commercial edible food generators pursuant to 14 CCR § 18982(a)(7).
   COMMERCIAL PREMISES. All premises in the city, other than residential premises, where solid wastes are generated or accumulated. COMMERCIAL PREMISES refers to location and not ownership. The term includes, without limitation: stores; offices; federal, state, county and local governmental institutions; schools; restaurants; hotels; motels; manufacturing, processing, or assembling shops or plants; hospitals; clinics; nursing homes; convalescent centers; and dormitories.
   COMMERCIAL SOLID WASTE. All types of solid waste, including green container waste and blue container waste, generated or accumulated at commercial premises. COMMERCIAL SOLID WASTES does not include residential solid waste or recyclable material.
   COMPLIANCE REVIEW. A review of records by the city or its designee to determine compliance with the requirements of this chapter.
   COMMUNITY COMPOSTING. Any activity that composts green material, agricultural material, food material, and vegetative food material, alone or in combination, where the total amount of feedstock and compost on-site at anyone time does not exceed 100 cubic yards and 750 square feet, as specified in 14 CCR § 17855(a)(4); or, as otherwise defined by 14 CCR § 18982(a)(8).
   CONSTRUCTION. All building, landscaping, remodeling, addition, removal, or destruction involving the use or disposal of designated recyclable and reusable materials.
   CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION MATERIALS. Used or discarded construction materials removed from any premises during the construction, renovation, or razing of a structure.
   CONTAINER. Any commercial bin, residential solid waste container, vessel, can, or other receptacle meeting the requirements of S8 1383 used for the temporary accumulation, collection, and removal of solid waste, including recyclables and organic waste.
   CONTAINER CONTAMINATION or CONTAMINATED CONTAINER. A container, regardless of color, that contains prohibited container contaminants, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR § 18982(a)(55).
   CONTRACTOR. Any person or entity holding, or required to hold, a contractor's license of any type under the laws of the State of California, or who performs any construction, demolition, remodeling, or landscaping service relating to buildings or accessory structures in the city.
   CUSTOMER. Persons, including responsible persons, who obtain collection services from the city or its franchisee.
   DEMOLITION AND CONSTRUCTION DEBRIS.
      (1)   Discarded materials generally considered to be not water soluble and nonhazardous in nature, including, without limitation, steel, glass, brick, concrete, asphalt material, pipe, gypsum, wallboard, and lumber from the construction or destruction of a structure as part of a construction or demolition project or from the renovation of a structure and/or landscaping, and including rocks, soils, tree remains, trees, and other vegetative matter that normally results from land clearing, landscaping, and development operations for a construction project;
      (2)   Clean cardboard, paper, plastic, wood, and metal scraps from any construction and/or landscape project;
      (3)   Non-construction and demolition debris wood scraps; and/or
      (4)   De minimis amounts of other non-hazardous wastes that are generated at construction or demolition projects, provided such amounts are consistent with best management practices of the industry.
   DESIGNATED RECYCLABLE AND REUSABLE MATERIALS.
      (1)   Masonry building materials, including all products generally used in construction including, without limitation, asphalt, concrete, rock, stone, and brick;
      (2)   Wood materials, including any and all dimensional lumber, fencing, or construction wood that is not chemically treated, creosoted, CCA pressure treated, contaminated, or painted;
      (3)   Vegetative materials, including trees, tree parts, shrubs, stumps, logs, brush, or any other type of plants that are cleared from a site for construction or other use;
      (4)   Metals, including all metal scrap such as, without limitation, pipes, siding, window frames, door frames, and fences;
      (5)   Roofing materials, including wood shingles as well as asphalt-based, stone-based, and slate-based roofing material; and/or
      (6)   Salvageable materials includes all salvageable materials and structures, including, without limitation, wallboard, doors, windows, fixtures, toilets, sinks, bath tubs, and appliances.
   DROP BOX. Low-boy bins and roll-off bins.
   DWELLING. A residence, including any flat, apartment, or other facility intended to be and permitted to be used for housing one or more persons, except DWELLING does not include, hospitals, hotels, motels, nursing homes, or convalescent centers.
   EDIBLE FOOD. Food intended for human consumption, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR § 18982(a)(18). For the purposes of this chapter or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR § 18982(a)(18), EDIBLE FOOD is not solid waste if it is recovered and not discarded. Nothing in this chapter or in 14 CCR, Division 7, Chapter 12 requires or authorizes the recovery of edible food that does not meet the food safety requirements of the California Retail Food Code.
   ELECTRONIC WASTE. Has the same meaning as 22 CCR § 66273.9 for consumer electronic devices that exhibit the characteristic of toxicity.
   ENFORCEMENT ACTION. An action of the city to address non-compliance with this chapter, including, but not limited to, the issuance of administrative citations, fines, penalties, or other remedies.
   ENFORCEMENT OFFICER. The City Manager, Public Works Director, or their authorized designee(s), who is/are partially or wholly responsible for enforcing this chapter.
   EXCLUDED WASTE. Hazardous substance, hazardous waste, infectious waste, designated waste, volatile, corrosive, medical waste, infectious, regulated radioactive waste, and toxic substances or material that facility operator(s), which receive materials from the city and its generators, reasonably believe(s) would, as a result of or upon acceptance, transfer, processing, or disposal, be a violation of local, state, or federal law, regulation, or ordinance, including: land use restrictions or conditions, waste that cannot be disposed of in Class III landfills or accepted at the facility by permit conditions, waste that in city's or its designee's reasonable opinion would present a significant risk to human health or the environment, cause a nuisance, or otherwise create or expose city or its designee to potential liability; but not including de minimis volumes or concentrations of waste of a type and amount normally found in single-family or multi-family solid waste after implementation of programs for the safe collection, processing, recycling, treatment, and disposal of batteries and paint in compliance with §§ 41500 and 41802 of the Cal. Public Resources Code. EXCLUDED WASTE does not include used motor oil and filters, household batteries, universal wastes, and/or latex paint when such materials are defined as allowable materials for collection through the city's collection programs and the generator or customer has properly placed the materials for collection pursuant to instructions provided by city or its designee for collection services.
   FOOD DISTRIBUTOR. A company that distributes food to entities including, but not limited to, supermarkets and grocery stores, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR § 18982(a)(22).
   FOOD FACILITY. Has the same meaning as in § 113789 of the Cal. Health and Safety Code.
   FOOD RECOVERY. Actions to collect and distribute food for human consumption that otherwise would be disposed, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR § 18982(a)(24).
   FOOD RECOVERY ORGANIZATION.
      (1)   An entity that engages in the collection or receipt of edible food from commercial edible food generators and distributes that edible food to the public for food recovery either directly or through other entities or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR § 18982(a)(25), including, but not limited to:
         (a)   A food bank as defined in § 113783 of the Cal. Health and Safety Code;
         (b)   A nonprofit charitable organization as defined in § 113841 of the Cal. Health and Safety code; and
         (c)   A nonprofit charitable temporary food facility as defined in § 113842 of the Cal. Health and Safety Code.
      (2)   A FOOD RECOVERY ORGANIZATION is not a commercial edible food generator for the purposes of this chapter and implementation of 14 CCR, Division 7, Chapter 12 pursuant to 14 CCR § 18982(a)(7). If the definition in 14 CCR § 18982(a)(25) for FOOD RECOVERY ORGANIZATION differs from this definition, the definition in 14 CCR § 18982(a)(25) shall apply to this chapter.
   FOOD RECOVERY SERVICE. A person or entity that collects and transports edible food from a commercial edible food generator to a food recovery organization or other entities for food recovery, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR § 18982(a)(26). A FOOD RECOVERY SERVICE is not a commercial edible food generator for the purposes of this chapter and implementation of 14 CCR, Division 7, Chapter 12 pursuant to 14 CCR § 18982(a)(7).
   FOOD SERVICE PROVIDER. An entity primarily engaged in providing food services to institutional, governmental, commercial, or industrial locations of others based on contractual arrangements with these types of organizations, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR § 18982(a)(27).
   FOOD WASTE. All food scraps, including. but not limited to:
      (1)   Fruits, vegetables, meat, poultry, seafood, shellfish, bones, rice, beans, pasta, bread, cheese, and eggshells, but excluding fats, oils, and grease when such materials are source separated from other food scraps;
      (2)   Food-soiled paper, such as compostable paper material that has come in contact with food or liquid, including, but not limited to, compostable paper plates, paper coffee cups, napkins, pizza boxes, and milk cartons; and
      (3)   Compostable plastics.
   FRANCHISE or SOLID WASTE FRANCHISE. The right and privilege granted by the city:
      (1)   To arrange for collecting solid waste;
      (2)   To transport solid waste to landfills, transformation facilities or other licensed solid waste management facilities; and/or
      (3)   To recycle solid waste collected within the city.
   FRANCHISE FEE. The fee or assessment imposed by the city on a franchisee which was granted a solid waste franchise in accordance with this chapter.
   FRANCHISEE. A solid waste enterprise, as defined by Cal. Public Resources Code § 40193, holding a valid solid waste franchise issued pursuant to this chapter.
   GARDENERS. Persons who possess a city license or permit for gardening and landscaping maintenance services for hire.
   GENERATOR. Any person which produces solid waste.
   GRAY CONTAINER. The same meaning as in 14 CCR § 18982.2(a)(28) and shall be used for the purpose of storage and collection of gray container waste.
   GRAY CONTAINER WASTE. Solid waste that is collected in a gray container that is part of a three-container organic waste collection service that prohibits the placement of organic waste in the gray container as specified in 14 CCR §§ 18984.1(a) and (b), or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR § 17402(a)(6.5).
   GREEN CONTAINER. Has the same meaning as in 14 CCR § 18982.2(a)(29) and shall be used for the purpose of storage and collection of source separated green container organic waste).
   GREEN CONTAINER WASTE. Source separated green container organic waste.
   GREEN MATERIAL COMPOSTING FACILITY. Has the same definition as set forth in 14 CCR § 17852.   GROCERY STORE. A store primarily engaged in the retail sale of canned food; dry goods; fresh fruits and vegetables; fresh meats, fish, and poultry; and any area that is not separately owned within the store where the food is prepared and served, including a bakery, deli, and meat and seafood departments, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR § 18982(a)(30).
   GROSS REVENUES. Any and all revenue or compensation in any form derived directly or indirectly by a franchisee, its affiliates, subsidiaries, parents and any person or entity in which a franchisee has a financial interest, from the collection, transportation, processing, disposal, and other services with respect to solid waste, including blue and green container wastes, collected within the city, in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, pursuant to a solid waste franchise, permit, or license. GROSS REVENUES include, without limitation, monthly customer fees for collection of solid waste, including blue and green container wastes, special pickup fees, commercial bin and drop box rental and collection fees, fees for redelivery of commercial bins and drop boxes and revenue from the sale of blue and green container wastes, without subtracting franchise fees or any other cost of doing business.
   HAZARDOUS WASTE. Any waste materials or mixture of wastes defined as a "hazardous substance" or "hazardous waste" pursuant to RCRA and CERCLA, or HSAA, or as defined by the California Integrated Waste Management Board. HAZARDOUS WASTE may also include electronic waste when it enters the waste stream. Where there is a conflict in the definitions employed by two or more agencies having jurisdiction over hazardous or solid waste, the term HAZARDOUS WASTE will be construed to have the broader, more encompassing definition.
   HIGH DIVERSION ORGANIC WASTE PROCESSING FACILITY. A facility that is in compliance with the reporting requirements of 14 CCR § 18815.5(d) and meets or exceeds an annual average mixed waste organic content recovery rate of 50% between January 1, 2022 and December 31, 2024, and 75% after January 1, 2025, as calculated pursuant to 14 CCR § 18815.5(e) for organic waste received from the "mixed waste organic collection stream" as defined in 14 CCR § 17402(a)(11.5); or, as otherwise defined in 14 CCR § 18982(a)(33).
   HSAA. The Carpenter-Presley-Tanner Hazardous Substance Account Act as set forth at Cal. Health and Safety Code §§ 25300 through 25395.45, as amended.
   IWMB. The California Integrated Waste Management Board.
   LARGE EVENT. An event, including, but not limited to, a sporting event or a flea market, that charges an admission price, or is operated by a local agency, and serves an average of more than 2,000 individuals per day of operation of the event, at a location that includes, but is not limited to, a public, nonprofit, or privately owned park, parking lot, golf course, street system, or other open space when being used for an event. If the definition in 14 CCR § 18982(a)(38) differs from this definition, the definition in 14 CCR § 18982(a)(38) shall apply to this chapter.
   LARGE VENUE. A permanent venue facility that annually seats or serves an average of more than 2,000 individuals within the grounds of the facility per day of operation of the venue facility. For purposes of this chapter and implementation of 14 CCR, Division 7, Chapter 12, a venue facility includes, but is not limited to, a public, nonprofit, or privately owned or operated stadium, amphitheater, arena, hall, amusement park, conference or civic center, zoo, aquarium, airport, racetrack, horse track, performing arts center, fairground, museum, theater, or other public attraction facility. For purposes of this chapter and implementation of 14 CCR, Division 7, Chapter 12, a site under common ownership or control that includes more than one large venue that is contiguous with other large venues in the site, is a single large venue. If the definition in 14 CCR § 18982(a)(39) differs from this definition, the definition in 14 CCR § 18982(a)(39) shall apply to this chapter.
   LOCAL EDUCATION AGENCY. A school district, charter school, or county office of education that is not subject to the control of city regulations related to solid waste, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR § 18982(a)(40).
   MONTHLY BASIS. A billing period not exceeding 30 days.
   MULTI-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL. Multi-family residences, including apartments and condominiums (in which each unit has separate cooking and bathing facilities) of five or more units, at which commercial bins, not residential solid waste containers, are used for the temporary accumulation of solid waste. Under SB 1383 Regulations, multi-family residential dwellings with five or more units are included under the definition of a commercial business.
   NON-ORGANIC RECYCLABLES. Non-putrescible and non-hazardous recyclable wastes including but not limited to bottles, cans, metals, plastics, and glass, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR § 18982(a)(43).
   ORGANIC WASTE. Solid wastes containing material originated from living organisms and their metabolic waste products, including, but not limited to, food, green material, yard waste, organic textiles and carpets, lumber, wood, paper products, printing and writing paper, manure, biosolids, digestate, and sludges or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR § 18982(a)(46). Biosolids and digestate are as defined by 14 CCR §§ 18982(a)(4) and (16.5), respectively.
   ORGANIC WASTE GENERATOR. A person or entity that is responsible for the initial creation of organic waste, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR § 18982(a)(48).
   PAPER PRODUCTS. Include, but are not limited to, paper janitorial supplies, cartons, wrapping, packaging, file folders, hanging files, corrugated boxes, tissue, and toweling, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR § 18982(a)(54).
   PERSON. An individual, group of individuals, and/or any legal entity recognized by the laws of the state.
   PRINTING AND WRITING PAPERS. Include, but are not limited to, copy, xerographic, watermark, cotton fiber, offset, forms, computer printout paper, white wove envelopes, manila envelopes, book paper, note pads, writing tablets, newsprint, and other uncoated writing papers, posters, index cards, calendars, brochures, reports, magazines, and publications, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR § 18982(a)(54).
   PROHIBITED CONTAINER CONTAMINANTS. The following: (i) discarded materials placed in the blue container that are not identified as acceptable source separated recyclable materials for the city's blue container; (ii) discarded materials placed in the green container that are not identified as acceptable source separated green container organic waste for the city's green container; (iii) discarded materials placed in the gray container that are acceptable source separated recyclable materials and/or source separated green container organic wastes to be placed in city's green container and/or blue container wastes to be placed in the city's blue container; and (iv) excluded waste placed in any container.
   PUBLIC RIGHT-OF-WAY. Any city street, sidewalk, pedestrian path, bike path, or any other "public way," as defined by Cal. Streets & Highways Code § 18609, and any successor statute.
   RCRA. The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act as set forth at 42 U.S.C. §§ 6901 et seq., as amended.
   RECYCLABLE MATERIAL. An item (or items) which has commercial value and which is sold for compensation or donated to an entity other than a franchisee. RECYCLABLE MATERIALS are not part of the waste stream. RECYCLABLE MATERIALS lose their character as recyclable materials when placed into the waste stream, thereby becoming solid waste subject to this chapter.
   RESIDENTIAL or RESIDENTIAL PREMISES. Includes single-family residences. The terms do not include hotels, motels, rooming houses, hospitals, nursing homes, convalescent centers, dormitories, barracks, other group living places, or multi-family units of five or more units, using commercial bins for the temporary accumulation and collection of solid waste. RESIDENTIAL or RESIDENTIAL PREMISES refers to location, and not ownership of nor an interest in property.
   RESIDENTIAL SOLID WASTE CONTAINER.A container (including but not limited to a trash can, barrel, or cart) provided by a customer or a franchisee, used and intended for accumulating and collection residential solid waste. The term does not include multi-family residential bins placed at multi-family units of five or more units, nor those commercial bins used by commercial customers.
   RESPONSIBLE PERSON. The person responsible for daily operations of every residential or commercial premises located within the city's jurisdiction including, without limitation, the property owner.
   RESTAURANT. An establishment primarily engaged in the retail sale of food and drinks for on-premises or immediate consumption, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR § 18982(a)(64).
   SB 1383. Senate Bill 1383 of 2016 approved by the Governor on September 19, 2016, which added §§ 39730.5, 39730.6, 39730.7, and 39730.8 to the Cal. Health and Safety Code, and added Chapter 13.1 (commencing with § 42652) to Part 3 of Division 30 of the Cal. Public Resources Code, establishing methane emissions reduction targets in a Statewide effort to reduce emissions of short-lived climate pollutants as amended, supplemented, superseded, and replaced from time to time.
   SB 1383 REGULATIONS or SB 1383 REGULATORY. The Short-Lived Climate Pollutants: Organic Waste Reduction regulations developed by CalRecycle and adopted in 2020 that created 14 CCR, Division 7, Chapter 12 and amended portions of regulations of 14 CCR and 27 CCR.
   SELF-HAULER. A person disposing of solid waste which that person, or occupants of premises for which that person is responsible, generated, who possesses a self-hauler permit issued pursuant to this chapter, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR § 18982(a)(66). SELF-HAULER also includes a person who back-hauls waste. Back-haul means generating and transporting organic waste to a destination owned and operated by the generator using the generator's own employees and equipment, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR § 18982(a)(66)(A).
   SINGLE-FAMILY. Of, from, or pertaining to any residential premises with fewer than five units.
   SOLID WASTE. Has the same meaning as defined in Cal. Public Resources Code § 40191, which defines solid waste as: all putrescible and non-putrescible solid, semisolid, and liquid wastes, including garbage, trash, refuse, paper, rubbish, ashes, industrial wastes, demolition and construction wastes, abandoned vehicles and parts thereof, discarded home and industrial appliances, dewatered, treated, or chemically fixed sewage sludge which is not hazardous waste, manure, vegetable or animal solid and semisolid wastes, and other discarded solid and semi-solid wastes, with the exception that solid waste does not include any of the following wastes:
      (1)   Hazardous waste, as defined in the Cal. Public Resources Code § 40141.
      (2)   Radioactive waste regulated pursuant to the State Radiation Control Law (Chapter 8 (commencing with § 114960) of Part 9 of Division 104 of the Cal. Health and Safety Code).
      (3)   Medical waste regulated pursuant to the State Medical Waste Management Act (Part 14 (commencing with § 117600) of Division 104 of the Cal. Health and Safety Code). Untreated medical waste shall not be disposed of in a solid waste landfill, as defined in Cal. Public Resources Code § 40195.1. Medical waste that has been treated and deemed to be solid waste shall be regulated pursuant to Division 30 of the State Public Resources Code.
   SOLID WASTE FACILITY. Any recycling center, materials recovery facility, intermediate processing center, incineration facility, or landfill where solid waste may be taken for immediate processing or final disposal. SOLID WASTE FACILITY includes a solid waste transfer or processing station and a composting, transformation, or disposal facility.
   SOURCE SEPARATED BLUE CONTAINER ORGANIC WASTE. Source separated organic wastes that can be placed in a blue container that is limited to the collection of those organic wastes and non-organic recyclables as defined in 14 CCR § 18982(a)(43), or as otherwise defined by § 17402(a)(18.7).
   SOURCE SEPARATED GREEN CONTAINER ORGANIC WASTE. Source separated organic waste that can be placed in a green container that is specifically intended for the separate collection of organic waste by the generator, excluding source separated blue container organic waste, carpets, non-compostable paper, and textiles.
   SOURCE SEPARATED RECYCLABLE MATERIALS. Source separated non-organic recyclables and source separated blue container organic waste.
   SOURCE SEPARATING, SOURCE SEPARATED, or SOURCE SEPARATION. Materials, including commingled recyclable materials, that have been separated or kept separate from the solid waste stream, at the point of generation, for the purpose of additional sorting or processing those materials for recycling or reuse in order to return them to the economic mainstream in the form of raw material for new, reused, or reconstituted products, which meet the quality standards necessary to be used in the marketplace, the process by which such materials are so separated, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR § 17402.5(b)(4). For the purposes of this chapter, SOURCE SEPARATED shall include separation of materials by the generator, property owner, property owner's employee, property manager, or property manager's employee into different containers for the purpose of collection, such that source separated materials are separated from gray container waste or other solid waste for the purposes of collection and processing.
   SUPERMARKET. A full-line, self-service retail store with gross annual sales of $2,000,000, or more, and which sells a line of dry grocery, canned goods, or nonfood items and some perishable items, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR § 18982(a)(71).
   TIER ONE COMMERCIAL EDIBLE FOOD GENERATOR.
      (1)   A commercial edible food generator that is one of the following:
         (a)   Supermarket.
         (b)   Grocery store with a total facility size equal to or greater than 10,000 square feet.
         (c)   Food service provider.
         (d)   Food distributor.
         (e)   Wholesale food vendor.
      (2)   If the definition in 14 CCR § 18982(a)(73) of tier one commercial edible food generator differs from this definition, the definition in 14 CCR § 18982(a)(73) shall apply to this chapter.
   TIER TWO COMMERCIAL EDIBLE FOOD GENERATOR.
      (1)   A commercial edible food generator that is one of the following:
         (a)   Restaurant with 250 or more seats, or a total facility size equal to or greater than 5,000 square feet.
         (b)   Hotel with an on-site food facility and 200 or more rooms.
         (c)   Health facility with an on-site food facility and 100 or more beds.
         (d)   Large venue.
         (e)   Large event.
         (f)   A state agency with a cafeteria with 250 or more seats or total cafeteria facility size equal to or greater than 5,000 square feet.
         (g)   A local education agency facility with an on-site food facility.
      (2)   If the definition in 14 CCR § 18982(a)(74) of tier two commercial edible food generator differs from this definition, the definition in 14 CCR § 18982(a)(74) shall apply to this chapter.
   WHITE GOODS. Discarded enameled household appliances, such as refrigerators, freezers, stoves, washer/dryers, water heaters, dishwashers, trash compactors, and similar items.
   WHOLESALE FOOD VENDOR. A business or establishment engaged in the merchant wholesale distribution of food, where food (including fruits and vegetables) is received, shipped, stored, prepared for distribution to a retailer, warehouse, distributor, or other destination, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR § 189852(a)(76).
(Ord. 1091, passed 1-5-04; Am. Ord. 1313, passed 12-1-21)