For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
FAMILY DOMESTIC UNIT. Any single, independent family unit, irrespective of the number of persons constituting such family. Each independent family unit living in multiple-dwelling residences, apartment houses, or any type of residence (including, but not limited to, trailer houses) which have normal cooking facilities and is occupied more than three days a week shall be deemed a FAMILY DOMESTIC UNIT for the purposes of this chapter. A rooming house that supplies lodging only for hire and which does not serve meals to any lodgers and does not permit cooking and eating on the premises shall be deemed a ONE-FAMILY DOMESTIC UNIT for the purposes of this chapter.
GARBAGE. Solid and semi-solid putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling, preparing, cooking, storing, serving, or consumption of food or of material intended for use as food and all offal excluding useful industrial byproducts from all public and private establishments and from all residences.
HAZARDOUS WASTE. Any waste which is defined as hazardous by state, federal, or local laws or regulations or which is deemed by the Director of Public Works or City Council as posing a hazard to the waste facility, human health, or the environment.
INFECTIOUS WASTE. Includes material containing pathogens of sufficient virulence and quantity that exposure to such material by a susceptible host could result in an infectious disease. Such materials include, but are not limited to, the following:
(1) Isolation waste and material generated by contact with hospitalized patients who are isolated to protect others from communicable diseases as defined by the Center for Disease Control;
(2) Cultures and stocks of infectious agents and associated biologicals, specimen cultures from medical and pathological laboratories, cultures and stocks of infectious agents from research and industrial laboratories, wastes from the productions of biologicals, and discarded live and attenuated vaccines together with any culture dishes and devices used to transfer, inoculate, or mix cultures or other such agents;
(3) Human blood and blood products, all waste human blood, and blood products such as serum, plasma, and other blood components;
(4) Pathological waste consisting of tissue, organs, body parts, or body fluids that are removed during surgery or autopsy;
(5) Contaminated sharps including hypodermic needles, syringes, pasteur pipettes, broken glass, scalpel blades, and other similar items which have come into contact with infectious agents during use in patient care or in medical research;
(6) Contaminated animal carcasses, body parts, and bedding including all such materials exposed to pathogens in research, and the production of biologicals or in the in vitro testing of pharmaceuticals; and
(7) Miscellaneous contaminated waste including materials contaminated by contact with pathogens during surgery or autopsy, laboratory testing or experimentation, materials which were in contact with the blood of patients undergoing hemodialysis, and all other materials contaminated by contact with pathogens. INFECTIOUS WASTE shall not include material which has been rendered noninfectious by autoclaving, incineration, or other process recognized and accepted by the medical profession or material determined to be not infectious by responsible, authorized, licensed practitioner at the facility at which such waste was generated; provided, however, the Public Works Director, under the direction of the City Council, shall have final authority within their sound discretion to determine what is and what is not infectious waste.
LIQUID WASTE. Liquids or waste containing free moisture.
REFUSE. Putrescible and nonputrescible wastes including, but not limited to: garbage, rubbish, ashes, incinerator ash, incinerator residues, street cleanings, market and industrial solid wastes, and sewage treatment wastes in dry or semi-solid form.
RUBBISH. Nonputrescible solid waste consisting of combustible and noncombustible wastes such as ashes, paper, cardboard, tin cans, yard clippings, wood, glass, bedding, crockery, trees or portions of trees, or other litter with similar properties.
SPECIAL WASTE. Includes all hazardous waste, liquid waste, infectious waste, and other waste requiring special handling under any state, federal, or city law or regulation.
TOXIC WASTE. Any waste which is defined as toxic by state, federal, or local laws or regulations or which is deemed by the Public Works Director or City Council as posing a toxic hazard to the waste facility, human health, or the environment.
WASTE FACILITY. Any area designated by the City Council as a separate transfer station or restricted use solid waste facility or recycling center.
WHITE GOODS. All household appliances including, but not limited to: stoves, refrigerators, washers, dryers, air conditioners, and the like.
(Prior Code, § 8.16.010) (Ord. 94-1, passed - -)