For use in these chapters the following terms are defined:
1. "Collector" means any person authorized to gather solid waste from public and private places.
2. "Construction Debris" means remains of the construction, remodeling, repair and demolition of houses, commercial buildings, pavements and other structures (including prefabricated material).
3. "Customer" means and includes, the record titleholder of the property served, or any and all adult person(s) residing in, renting, leasing, occupying, or operating a business in any premises connected to the Sergeant Bluff Solid Waste Control System and receiving any Sergeant Bluff solid waste collection service. As between such parties the duties, responsibilities, liabilities and obligations of the customer imposed in this chapter shall be joint and several.
4. "Discard" means to place, cause to be placed, throw, deposit, or drop.
5. “"Dwelling unit" means a single unit providing complete independent living facilities for one or more persons, including permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking and sanitation.
6. "Garbage" means all solid and semisolid, putrescible animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparing, cooking, storing, serving and consuming of food or of material intended for use as food, and all offal, excluding useful industrial by-products, and includes all such substances from all public and private establishments and from all residences.
7. "Landscape waste" means any vegetable or plant waste except garbage. The term includes trees, tree trimmings, branches, stumps, brush, weeds, leaves, grass, shrubbery, and yard trimmings.
8. "Litter" means any garbage, rubbish, trash, refuse, waste materials, or debris.
9. "Refuse" means putrescible and non-putrescible waste, including but not limited to garbage, rubbish, ashes, incinerator residues, street cleanings, market and industrial solid waste and sewage treatment waste in dry or semisolid form.
10. "Residential premises" means a single-family dwelling and any multiple-family dwelling up to and including four (4) separate dwelling units.
11. "Residential waste" means any refuse generated on the premises as a result of residential activities. The term includes landscape waste grown on the premises or deposited thereon by the elements, but excludes construction debris, garbage, vehicles, furniture, tires, trade wastes and any locally recyclable goods or plastics.
12. "Rubbish" means non-putrescible solid waste consisting of combustible and non-combustible waste, such as ashes, paper, cardboard, tin cans, yard clippings, wood, glass, bedding, crockery, or litter of any kind.
13. "Sanitary disposal" means a method of treating solid waste so that it does not produce a hazard to the public health or safety or create a nuisance.
14. "Sanitary disposal project" means all facilities and appurtenances including all real and personal property connected with such facilities, which are acquired, purchased, constructed, reconstructed, equipped, improved, extended, maintained, or operated to facilitate the final disposition of solid waste without creating a significant hazard to the public health or safety, and which are approved by the Director of the State Department of Natural Resources.
15. "Solid waste" means garbage, refuse, rubbish, and other similar discarded solid or semisolid materials, including but not limited to such materials resulting from industrial, commercial, agricultural, and domestic activities. Solid waste does not include any of the following:
A. Hazardous waste regulated under the Federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, 42 U.S.C. § 6921-6934.
B. Hazardous waste as defined in Section 455B.411 of the Code of Iowa, except to the extent that rules allowing for the disposal of specific wastes have been adopted by the State Environmental Protection Commission.
C. Source, special nuclear, or by-product material as defined in the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended to January 1, 1979.
D. Petroleum contaminated soil that has been remediated to acceptable State or Federal standards.
(Ord. 748 - Apr. 24 Supp.)