As used in this chapter:
(a) "Residential dwelling unit" means a room or group of rooms located within a residential building, forming a single habitable unit with facilities used or intended to be used by a single family for living, sleeping, cooking and eating purposes.
(b) "Subscriber" means the person or persons in charge of a residential dwelling unit where the adjacent tree lawn is used by residential generators for the disposal of solid waste.
(c) "Residential building" means a single-family dwelling, a mobile home, or a residential dwelling unit located within a duplex, triplex, quadplex, or other non-multifamily residential building with direct access to a public street or right-of-way, or a private street or right-of-way that is open to the public.
(d) "Multifamily" means the grouping together of five or more residential dwelling units under a common roof, in which individual residents dispose of solid waste without placing it within or adjacent to the public right-of-way.
(e) "Solid Waste" means Garbage, Rubbish and Yard Waste, as defined herein, but subject to the provisions of 40 CFR §261.2 et seq.
(f) "Garbage" means all putrescible waste, except human excreta, sewage and other water-carried wastes, including vegetable and animal offal and carcasses of dead animals and shall include all such substances generated from normal use of residential dwelling units.
(g) "Rubbish" means ashes, glass, crockery, tin cans, paper, boxes, rags and old clothing and all other similar nonputrescible wastes generated from normal use of residential dwelling units. The term "rubbish" shall not include any material such as earth, sand, brick, stone, plaster or other similar substances that may accumulate as a result of construction or demolition operations.
(h) "Yard Waste" means leaves, grass clippings, weeds, Holiday trees, bushes and brush and branch clippings, when securely bound in bundles not exceeding four feet in length and eighteen inches in diameter, and weighing no more than fifty pounds, or placed in yard waste containers, as specified in the City's contract.
(i) "Hazardous Waste" means, subject to 40 CFR §261.3, those substances which, singularly or in combination, pose a significant present or potential threat or hazard to human health or to the environment, and which singularly or in combination, require special handling, processing, or disposal because they are or may be flammable, explosive, reactive, corrosive, toxic, carcinogenic, bioconcentrative, or persistent in nature, potentially lethal, or an irritant or strong sensitizer.
(j) "Asbestos" means the asbestiform varieties of sepentinite (chrysotile), riebeckite (crodiodolite), cummintonite-grunerite, anthophyllite and actinolitremolits.
(k) "Asbestos Containing Waste Materials" means those wastes identified in Chapter 3745-20-01(B)(4) of the Ohio Administrative Code (OAC).
(l) "Infectious Waste" means those wastes identified in Chapter 3745-27-01(V) of the Ohio Administrative Code (OAC).
(m) "Premises" means land or buildings or both, occupied by a householder or a commercial operator.
(n) "Commercial Operator" means all persons, firms or corporations who own or operate stores, restaurants, industries, institutions and other similar places including multi-family dwellings or multi-family residential structures containing four or more dwelling units.
(o) "City's Contract" or "Franchise" means the actual document signed between the City of Streetsboro and a single solid waste hauler, through the open competitive bidding process, for the exclusive right to collect residential, multi-family and apartment garbage and rubbish.
(p) "City's Contractor," or "Contractor" or "Franchisee" means the franchised contractor authorized by the City for the collection of garbage and rubbish.
(q) "Residential generator" means the residents of individual dwelling units and specifically, any person who, residing in a specific dwelling unit, deposits solid waste in a tree lawn or other place associated with that dwelling unit that is also in or adjacent to the public right-of-way or a private right-of-way open to the public, for the purpose of disposing of such waste.
(r) "The business of collecting solid waste placed within or adjacent to the public right-of-way (and private rights-of-way open to the public) by residential generators of such waste" means the act of establishing a business/customer service relationship with residential generators under which an enterprise will use the public right-of-way as a drop point for residential generators to place solid waste for pick up.
(s) "Person or persons in charge" of a residential dwelling unit means the resident owner(s), lessee(s), tenant(s), or other person(s) empowered to contract typical utility services for the residential dwelling unit.
(t) "Public Right-of-Way" means all real property owned by the City or which otherwise is under the control of the City and which has been dedicated for use as public streets or ways, including the space above and below such property.
(u) "Tree lawn" means an unpaved portion of the public right-of-way (or a private right-of-way open to the public) between the existing curb, curbline, or pavement edge and the adjacent sidewalk, or if there is no sidewalk, the front lot line.
(Ord. 2016-84. Passed 6-27-16.)