For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
APPLIANCES AND SMALL HOUSEHOLD EQUIPMENT. Examples of appliances include, but are not limited to, washers, dryers, refrigerators, and freezers. Examples of small household equipment include, but are not limited to, a generator, lawn mower, and wet/dry shop vacuum. Appliances and small household equipment shall be considered solid waste if they are not in use, are in a state of disrepair, and are not properly stored, thereby causing an unsightly or hazardous condition to exist.
BULKY REFUSE. Rugs, furniture, small appliances, mattresses, and other materials which are inappropriate or too large to be deposited into containers.
BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENT. A structure or premises not used as a residence, including retail, wholesale, storage, warehouse, store, factory, production, processing, manufacturing, restaurant, construction, service, hospitals, governmental entities, public authorities (schools), or office uses, but not including any residence.
COLLECTOR. The City of Sierra Vista or an authorized, licensed private solid waste hauler.
COMMERCIAL OR INDUSTRIAL REFUSE. Any refuse generated by a business establishment.
COMMERCIAL OR INDUSTRIAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT SERVICES. The collection, storage, processing, transportation, treatment, reclamation, or disposal of commercial or industrial refuse.
COMMERCIAL SOLID WASTE LICENSE. A binding, legal instrument between the City and person who engages in, owns, or operates a service to collect, transport, dispose, or recycle commercial or industrial solid waste within the City, pursuant to the provision of this Chapter and in a manner that protects the public health, safety, and the environment and prevents environmental nuisances.
CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION DEBRIS. Any solid waste resulting from a construction or demolition project which would include lumber, scraps, shingles, plaster, brick, or concrete. This list is not inclusive but provides examples of typical construction debris.
CONTAINER. Shall include sixty-five (65-), ninety-five (95-), and three hundred- (300-) gallon plastic barrels; two (2-), three (3-), four (4-), six (6-), and eight (8-) cubic-yard metal bins; twenty (20-), thirty (30-), and forty (40-) cubic-yard roll-off containers (approximate sizes); and compactors.
COUNTY SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL FACILITY. A Cochise County own, operated, and maintained, solid waste disposal landfill, urban transfer station, rural drop-off site, or recycling center, utilized for the purpose of storing, processing, recycling, treating, or disposing of solid waste.
DANGEROUS OR HAZARDOUS WASTE. Any solid waste that can cause damage or injury to property or persons and is dangerous or hazardous by reason of its pathological, explosive, flammable, reactive, radiological, or toxic nature, including, but not limited to, all wastes defined by the provisions of A.A.C. Title 18, Chapter 8, Article 2.
DISPOSAL. The physical transfer of refuse for purposes of recovery, other processing, or for placement, at a County Solid Waste Disposal Facility site, approved by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality or other agency having jurisdiction.
GARBAGE. All putrescible waste, except sewage and body waste, including waste accumulated of animal, food, or vegetable matter, and including waste that attends the preparation, use, cooking, dealing in or storing of meat, fish, fowl, fruit and vegetable, and shall include all of the wastes, accumulations, or vegetable matter of residences, restaurants, hotels, and places where food is prepared for human consumption. The term GARBAGE shall not include recognized industrial by-products.
GREEN WASTE. Lawn and shrubbery clippings, leaves, weeds, and all large trimmings from trees and shrubbery.
INSPECTOR. The authorized employee or employees of the City having the duty of the enforcement of this Chapter.
LICENSEE. A person who engages in, owns, or operates a service to collect, transport, dispose, or recycle commercial or industrial refuse, generated within the City, and has obtained a valid license to provide such services, pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter.
OWNER and OCCUPANT. Excluding Section 52.03 Paragraph 2, may be used interchangeably and shall mean every person in possession, charge or in control of any dwelling, flat, rooming house, or any eating place, shop, place of business, manufacturing, or business establishment where garbage or other refuse is created or accumulated.
PERSON. A corporation, company, partnership, firm, association, or society, as well as a natural person.
RECYCLABLE MATERIALS. Any solid waste consisting of post-consumer materials which may be collected, separated, cleansed, treated, or reconstituted and returned to the economic stream in the form of raw materials or products.
REFUSE. Solid waste, including garbage and rubbish.
RESIDENTIAL REFUSE. Any refuse generated from a residence.
RESPONSIBLE PARTY. The entity responsible for payment of the monthly or bi-monthly service and rental charges for refuse services.
RESIDENCE. Any structure or premises used as a domicile, dwelling, or habitation, including single-family dwellings, multifamily dwelling units, duplexes, patio homes, mobile home parks, trailer courts, rooming houses, boardinghouses, assisted living facilities, apartments, condominiums, townhouses, or any complex of the foregoing.
RUBBISH. Refuse other than garbage (tin cans, bottles, ashes, paper, pasteboard, cardboard, wooden boxes, brush, leaves, weeds, and cuttings from trees, lawns, shrubs and gardens, or other waste materials produced in normal course of everyday living).
SHARPS. Objects such as syringes, needles, and lancets that are used for insulin intake, blood samples, and for other medical purposes.
SOLID WASTE. Garbage, trash, rubbish, refuse, sludge from a wastewater treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or pollution control facility and other discarded material, including solid, contained liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material but not including domestic sewage or dangerous hazardous wastes. Use of the term “refuse” or “garbage” in definitions and policy is synonymous with “solid waste.”
SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT SERVICES. The systematic administration of services which provide for the collection, source separation, storage, transportation, transfer, processing, treatment, or disposal of solid waste, in a manner that protects public health, and safety and the environment and prevents and abates environmental nuisances.
WASTE. Unwanted solid or liquid materials.
('76 Code, § 9-1-1) (Ord. 77, passed 10-27-66; Am. Ord. 118, passed 9-25-69; Am. Ord. 592, passed 6-24-82; Am. Ord. 633, passed 4-28-83; Am. Ord. 2003-002, passed 2-27-03; Am. Ord. 2010-012, passed 6-24-10)