For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BUILDING. Any structure used or intended for supporting or sheltering any use or occupancy.
EMERGENCY RESPONSE. The providing, sending and/or utilizing of police, firefighting, emergency medical and rescue services by the township, or by a private industrial entity or corporation operating at the request or direction of the township or state, for an incident involving a hazardous materials release or threatened release.
EXPENSES OF AN EMERGENCY RESPONSE. The direct and reasonable costs incurred by the township or by a private person, corporation or other assisting government agency which is operating at the request or direction of the township, when making an emergency response to the hazardous materials incident, including the costs of providing police, firefighting, rescue services, emergency medical services, containment and abatement of all hazardous conditions at the scene of the incident. The costs further include all of the salaries and wages of township personnel responding to the incident, salaries and wages of township personnel engaged in the investigation, supervision and report preparation regarding said incident, all salaries and wages of personnel of assisting government agencies operating at the request or direction of the township, and all costs connected with the administration of the incident relating to any prosecution of the person(s) responsible, including those relating to the production and appearance of witnesses at any court proceedings in relation thereto. Costs shall also include such items as disposable materials and supplies used during the response to said incident, the rental or leasing of equipment used for the specific response, replacement of equipment which is contaminated beyond reuse or repair during the response to said incident, special technical services and laboratory costs, and services and supplies purchased for any specific evacuation relating to said incident.
HAZARDOUS MATERIAL. Explosives, pyrotechnics, flammable compressed gas, flammable liquid, combustible liquid, oxidizing material, poisonous gas, poisonous liquid, poisonous solid, irritating material, etiological material, radioactive material, corrosive material or liquified petroleum gas. The term shall also include any hazardous substance as that term is defined in the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 9601 et seq.
NONRESIDENT. Any person who, at the time of the emergency response incident, is not domiciled within, or named on the current real property assessment roll of, the township. In the case of a corporation, partnership or other entity other than a natural person, the term NONRESIDENT shall include all entities which do not have a place of business located within the township.
OWNER. Any person having a vested or contingent interest in the property, premises, container or vehicle involved in the hazardous materials incident, including, but not limited to, any duly authorized agent or attorney, purchaser, devisee or fiduciary of said person having said vested or contingent interest.
PREMISES. Any lot or parcel of land, exclusive of buildings, and includes a parking lot, tourist camp, trailer camp, airport, stockyard, junkyard, wharf, pier, public roadway and any other place or enclosure, however owned, used or occupied.
(Prior Code, § 40.103) (Ord. 101392, eff. 11-12-1992)