(a) As used in this chapter, the following items shall have the meaning ascribed to them as herein set forth:
(1) "Board" means the Board of County Commissioners of Miami County, Ohio, consisting of three members chosen as provided in Ohio R.C. 305.01 or 305.02.
(2) "Collection” means the process of picking up and transporting solid waste from the point of disposition to the point of its ultimate disposal.
(3) "Commercial haulers" means any person, firm, or corporation who for profit collects or transports solid waste to disposal sites.
(4) "Construction waste" means waste from building construction, alterations or repairs, and dirt from excavation, and unusual or specific manufacturing or trade waste not classified as municipal solid waste.
(5) "Director" means the Director of Public Service and Safety of the City of Troy, Ohio.
(6) "District" means the Miami County Solid Waste Management District as such District is described in the records of the Board of the County Commissioners of Miami County, Ohio, and as such District may be amended.
(7) "Garbage" means putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking, and consumption of food.
(8) "Garden refuse" means those items incidental to flower and vegetable gardens and trimmings from ornamental shrubs and plants.
(9) "Hazardous materials" means any waste or combination of wastes in solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous form that because of its quantity, concentration, or physical or chemical characteristics may cause or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible or incapacitating reversible illness; or poses a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or safety or to the environment when improperly managed and shall include hazardous waste as defined in ORC. 3734.01.
(10) "Household hazardous wastes" means those products that are incidental to the use of the homeowner, which in small quantities, would not be deemed hazardous to persons or property.
(11) "Individual haulers" means persons, firms, or corporations using vehicles either owned by them, rented or leased by them, either with drivers or for their use by themselves or by their employees on an occasional basis for the purpose of transporting solid waste produced by them to a point of disposal off their own premises.
(12) “Liquid wastes" means any material of a liquid nature which is being discarded.
(13) "Infectious Waste" means any wastes or combination of wastes that include cultures and stocks of infectious agents and associated biologicals, human blood and blood products, and substances that were or are likely to have been exposed to or contaminated with or are likely to transmit an infectious agent or zoonotic agent, including all of the following:
i. Laboratory wastes;
ii. Pathological wastes;
iii. Animal blood and blood products;
iv. Animal carcasses and parts;
v. Sharp wastes used in the treatment, diagnosis, or inoculation of human beings or animals;
vi. Any other waste materials generated in the diagnosis, treatment, or immunization of human beings or animals, in research pertaining thereto, or in the production or testing of biologicals, that the director of health, by rules adopted in accordance with Chapter 11g of the Revised Code, identifies as infectious wastes after determining that the wastes present a substantial threat to human health when improperly managed because they are contaminated with, or are likely to be contaminated with, infectious agents. As used in this section, "blood products" does not include patient care waste such as bandages or disposable gowns that are lightly soiled with blood or other body fluids unless those wastes are soiled to the extent that the generator of the wastes determines that they should be managed as infectious wastes.
(14) "Municipal solid waste" consists of certain discarded products incidental to housekeeping as defined in the definition of "garbage", "refuse", "rubbish", and "special trash items"
(15) "Public Health Department" means the public health department having jurisdiction in the geographic area appropriate to this chapter.
(16) "Recycling" means material s, containers, refuse comprised of certain grades of plastics, metal, aluminum, paper or glass that can be reused and further encompasses the process of collecting, sorting, cleansing, treating and reconstituting solid waste that would otherwise be disposed in a solid waste disposal facility and returning reconstituted materials to commerce as commodities for use or exchange .
(17) "Refuse" means all putrescible and nonputrescible solid waste (except body waste), including garbage, rubbish, and dead animals which are incidental to housekeeping.
(18) "Rubbish" includes the miscellaneous waste material and refuse from housekeeping and includes, but is not limited to, paper, ashes, tin cans. bottles.
(19) "Sanitary Engineer" means the Sanitary Engineer of Miami County, Ohio, appointed by the Board or his duly appointed assistants acting in his behalf.
(20) "Solid waste" means such unwanted residual solid or semisolid material as results from industrial, commercial, agricultural, and community operations, excluding earth or material from construction, mining, or demolition operations, or other waste materials of the type that normally would be included in demolition debris, nontoxic fly ash and bonom ash, including at least ash that results from the combustion of coal and ash that results from the combustion of coal in combination with scrap tires where scrap tires comprise not more than fifty per cent of heat input in any month, spent nontoxic foundry sand, nontoxic, nonhazardous, unwanted fired and unfired, glazed and unglazed, structural products made from shale and clay products, and slag and other substances that are not harmful or inimical to public health, and includes, but is not limited to, garbage, scrap tires, combustible and noncombustible material, street dirt, and debris. "Solid wastes" does not include any material that is an infectious waste or a hazardous waste.
(21) "Special trash items" include, but are not limited to, household appliances, water healers, household and patio furniture items, aluminum or galvanized down spouting, TV antenna and tower sections, lawn mowers and lawn care items, outdoor play equipment (dismantled), carpeting and padding, and small dog houses.
(22) "Vehicle waste" means items from motorized or non-motorized vehicles, including tires.
(23) "Yard waste" means routine items which include grass, brush, tree trimmings and leaves.
(Ord. 29-2018. Passed 6-18-18.)