1507.01 DEFINITIONS.

   As used in this chapter, certain terms are defined as follows:

   (a)    "Agricultural waste" means any matter generated by crop, horticultural or livestock production practices, and includes such items as bags, cartons, dry bedding, landscape wastes and structural materials that are generated in agricultural activities, but does not include garbage, dead animals, motor vehicles and parts thereof, nor economic poisons and containers therefor, unless the manufacturer has identified open burning as a safe disposal procedure.

   (b)    "Economic poisons" include but are not restricted to pesticides such as insecticides, fungicides, rodenticides (sic), miticides, nematocides and fumigants, herbicides, seed disinfectants and defoliants.

   (c)    "Garbage" means any matter resulting from the handling, processing, preparation, cooking and consumption of food or food products.

   (d)    "Landscape waste" means any vegetable or plant matter, except garbage, including trees, tree trimmings, branches, stumps, brush, weeds, leaves, grass, shrubbery, yard trimmings and crop residues.

   (e)    "Ohio EPA" means the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency and its delegate agencies or its Director as the context or applicable law may require.

   (f)   "Open burning" means the burning of any materials wherein air contaminants resulting from combustion are emitted directly into the ambient air, without passing through a stack or chimney from an enclosed chamber. For purposes of this definition, a chamber shall be regarded as enclosed when during the time combustion takes place, only such apertures, ducts, stacks, flues or chimneys as are necessary to provide combustion air and to permit the escape of exhaust gas, are open.

   (g)    "Residential waste" means any matter, including landscape wastes, generated on a one, two or three-family residence as a result of residential activities, but not including garbage. (Ord. 1981-48. Passed 11-2-81.)