For purposes of this chapter the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BULKY WASTE. Large appliances, pieces of furniture or waste materials other than demolition debris or hazardous waste, with a weight or volume greater than that allowed for residential type containers.
CITY. The City of Wahoo, Nebraska.
COMMERCIAL UNIT. All those entities that are commercial in nature and located generally in the commercially zoned areas of the city, and shall include also schools, hospitals, governmental facilities, except the city, religious establishments, charitable institutions, hotels and motels, and other like entities, residential apartments located within commercial buildings, and the business offices of industrial units.
COMPANY. Any entity that collects and transports solid waste for hire, whether hired by a singular source/generator of solid waste, or multiple sources/generators, and whether collection and transportation is on a daily, weekly, or other periodic or irregular basis within the city.
DEMOLITION DEBRIS. That portion of solid waste which includes all discarded or unwanted material, or waste material from construction, remodeling, and repair operations on houses, commercial buildings, and other structures, including, but not limited to excavated earth, stones, brick, plaster, lumber, concrete, and waste parts occasioned by installations and repairs, and all combustible and noncombustible waste material resulting from the demolition of structures, roadways, or other paved surfaces, but excluding garbage, refuse and hazardous wastes.
GARBAGE. Rejected food wastes, including waste accumulation of animal, fruit, or vegetable matter used or intended for food or that attend the preparation, use, cooking, dealing in, or storing of meat, fish, fowl, fruit, or vegetables, and dead animals rejected by rendering plants.
GROUP DWELLING UNIT. Any boarding or lodging houses, or apartment buildings which have living quarters for four or more family units, but shall not mean a hotel or motel.
HAZARDOUS WASTE. That portion of solid waste which because of quantity, concentration or physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics may:
(1) Cause or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality, or an increase in serious irreversible, or incapacitating irreversible illness; or
(2) Pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human or animal health, or the environment when improperly treated, stored, transported, disposed of, or otherwise managed.
INDUSTRIAL UNIT. All those entities that are industrial in nature and located in industrially zoned areas of the city.
JUNK. Old scrap, copper, brass, iron, steel, rope, rags, batteries, paper, trash, rubber debris, waste, dismantled or wrecked automobiles, or parts thereof, and other old or scrap ferrous or nonferrous material.
LIMITED LANDFILL. A type of operation in which only demolition debris, tree branches, yard waste, and street cleanings may be disposed of on a specified parcel of land and operated and maintained in such a manner as to present no danger to the health and safety and welfare of human beings.
MAYOR and COUNCIL. The chief executive officer and the governing body of the city.
MUNICIPAL UNIT. The city and shall include, but not be limited to, the following locations of city: City Hall, City Library, City Fire Hall, Street Department Building, Sunrise Cemetery, Wastewater Treatment Facility, Power Plant, Distribution Building, Civic Center, Senior Center, Smith Park, Westside (Hackberry) Park, Placek Park, Aquatic Center, during its season, Sam Crawford Field, during its season, and the central business district public trash containers.
PERSON. Any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, limited liability company or organization of any kind.
REFUSE. Putrescible and nonputrescible solid wastes, except body wastes, and includes garbage, rubbish, ashes, incinerator ash, incinerator residue, and solid market and industrial waste.
REFUSE VEHICLE. Any vehicle with or without a packing unit or mechanism used to collect, haul, or convey solid waste.
RESIDENTIAL UNIT. A building or portion thereof, including a mobile home used as living quarters for at least one family unit, but not more than three family units.
RUBBISH. Nonputrescible solid waste, excluding ashes, consisting of both combustible and noncombustible waste, such as paper, cardboard, tin cans, yard waste, wood, cut trees and/or tree branches and shrubbery, glass, bedding, crockery, or litter of any kind that will be a detriment to the public health and safety.
SOLID WASTE. Any garbage, refuse, or sludge from an air pollution control facility and other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semi-solid, or contained gaseous material, resulting from industrial, commercial, and mining operations, and from community activities, but SOLID WASTE shall not include solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or industrial discharges which are point sources subject to permits under Section 402 of the Clean Water Act, as amended, 33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq., or source, special nuclear, or by-product material as defined by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, 68 Stat. 923.
SOLID WASTE FACILITY. Any site owned and operated or utilized by any person for the collection, source preparation, storage, transportation, transfer, processing, treatment, or disposal of solid waste, operated pursuant to requirements of the State of Nebraska and any department or agency thereof.
SOLID WASTE SYSTEM. Any equipment, vehicles, facilities, personnel, or contractors utilized for the purpose of collection, source separation, storage, transportation, transfer, processing, treatment or disposal of solid wastes.
STREET/ALLEY. The surface of any public street, right of way, road, highway, freeway, bridge, path, alley, court, sidewalk, parkway, drive, now or hereafter existing as such within the city.
YARD WASTE. Grass and leaves.
(Ord. 2011, passed 2-19-09)