Except where the content clearly indicates a different meaning, definitions appearing in O.R.S. 459.005 and 459A.005 and regulations promulgated thereunder, are applicable in this chapter. The singular includes the plural and vice versa. As used in this chapter, the following words shall be defined as follows unless the context indicates or requires a different meaning.
CITY. The City of Union.
COMPACT and COMPACTION. The process of, or to engage in, the shredding of material, or the manual or mechanical compression of material.
COMPENSATION. Includes:
(1) Any type of consideration paid for service, including, but not limited to, rent, the proceeds from resource recovery, any direct or indirect provision for the payment of money, goods, services or benefits by tenants, lessees, occupants or similarly situated persons;
(2) The exchange of service between persons; and
(3) The flow of consideration from a person owning, possessing or generating solid waste to another person who provides services or from a person providing services to another person owning, possessing or generating solid waste.
DISPOSE or DISPOSAL. The accumulation, storage, discarding, collection, removal, transportation, recycling or resource recovery of waste.
FRANCHISE. The grant by the city to a person to provide solid waste management service, as provided by this code.
FRANCHISEE. The person to whom the exclusive franchise is granted under this code.
GENERATOR. The person who produces solid waste or recyclable material to be placed, or that is placed, out for collection and disposal. As used in this chapter, a GENERATOR does not include any person who manages an intermediate function resulting in the alteration or compaction of the solid waste or recyclable material after it has been produced by the GENERATOR and placed out for collection and disposal.
HAZARDOUS WASTE. This has the meaning given in O.R.S. 466.005.
PERSON. An individual, partnership, association, corporation, firm, trust, estate, cooperative or other private legal entity.
PLACED FOR COLLECTION. To put solid waste out for collection by a franchisee, as provided in this code.
RECEPTACLE. A trash can, cart, bin, container, drop box or other vessel used for the disposal of solid waste, and into which solid waste may be placed for collection and disposal.
SERVICE. The collection, storage, transportation, transfer or disposal of solid waste by the franchisee, which shall be performed in accordance with the service requirements of this code.
SOLID WASTE. All putrescible and non putrescible wastes, including but not limited to garbage, rubbish, refuse, trash, ashes, waste paper, cardboard, grass clippings, compost, tires, equipment and furniture; commercial, industrial, demolition and construction wastes; discarded or abandoned vehicles or parts thereof; discarded home or industrial appliances; manure, vegetable or animal solid and semi-solid wastes, dead animals; infectious waste as defined in O.R.S. 459.386; and other wastes; but the term does not include:
(1) HAZARDOUS WASTE as defined in O.R.S. 466.005.
(2) Materials used for fertilizer or for other productive purposes or which are salvageable as such materials and are used on land in agricultural operations and the growing or harvesting of crops and the raising of fowls or animals.
(3) Beverage containers, subject to reuse or refund provisions, contained in O.R.S. 459A.700 to 459A.740.
SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT. The prevention or reduction of solid waste; the business of collection, transportation, storage, treatment, utilization, processing, disposal, recycling and resource recovery of solid waste; and the facilities necessary or convenient to such activities.
WASTE. Useless or discarded materials.
(Ord. 517, passed 2-9-2009)