For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
EXPENSES. Shall include, but not be limited to, the actual labor costs to the city and its personnel, including fringe benefits, administrative overhead, costs of equipment and its operation, costs of materials, costs of any contract labor and materials, and any costs associated with the emergency hazardous material incident. The EXPENSES shall also include the cost incurred by the city as a result of any unit response to an emergency hazardous material incident.
HAZARDOUS MATERIAL INCIDENT. A spill, leakage, release, or threat of same of any hazardous material requiring immediate action to mitigate and reduce a threat to the public health, safety, or welfare of the citizens of the city.
HAZARDOUS WASTE. All those materials designated as hazardous by the State of Michigan in M.C.L.A. § 324.11103, as amended.
OWNER. Any individual, firm, company, association, corporation, partnership, or group, including its officers and employees who are either listed as the owner of record by the Clinton County Register of Deeds, have a land contract vendee’s interest in or are listed as the taxpayer of record of the real property where the emergency hazardous material incident occurred or have title, use, permission of, or control over the hazardous material or the vehicle upon which the hazardous material was transported or used.
PERSON. Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation, partnership or group, including its officers and employees, who has the responsibility for, or involvement in, the emergency hazardous material incident.
(Ord. 462, passed 5-8-1995)