26-1-2 Definitions
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(1) As used in this chapter: (a) "Commercial solid waste" means
all types of solid waste generated by stores, offices, restaurants, warehouses, and other nonmanufacturing activities, excluding household waste and industrial wastes.
(b) AConstruction debris landfill@ means a landfill that receives nonhazardous construction and demolition waste and inert waste.
(c) "Construction waste@ or Ademolition waste" means solid waste from building materials, packaging, and rubble resulting from construction, remodeling, repair, abatement, rehabilitation, renovation, and demolition operations on houses, commercial buildings, and other structures. Such waste may include bricks, concrete, other masonry materials, soil, rock, and rebar. It does not include drywall, asphalt, asbestos, contaminated soils or tanks resulting from remediation or clean-up at any release or spill, waste paints, solvents, sealers, adhesives, or
similar hazardous or potentially hazardous
materials.
(d) "Contaminate@ means to make
impure by exposure to or addition of a poisonous
or polluting substance.
(e) "Household waste" means any
solid waste, including garbage, trash, and sanitary
waste in septic tanks, derived from households
including single and multiple residences, and
bunkhouses.
(f)
"Inert
waste"
means
noncombustible, municipal solid wastes that retain
their physical and chemical structure under
expected conditions of disposal, including
resistance to biological or chemical attack.
(g) "Municipal solid waste" means
household waste, yard waste, nonhazardous
commercial solid waste, and non-hazardous
sludge.
(h) AMunicipal solid waste facility@
means a facility that receives municipal solid waste
for treatment, storage or disposal.
(i)
"Yard waste" means vegetative
matter resulting from landscaping, land
maintenance, and land clearing operations
including grass clippings, pruning’s, and other
discarded material generated from yards, gardens,
parks, and similar areas. AYard waste@ does not
include garbage, paper, plastic, processed wood,
sludge, or manure. (Ord.2005-30, 11/22/05)