<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 11-97. - Definitions.</div>
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               The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the
               meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates
               a different meaning:
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               <span class="ital">Hazardous waste</span> means:
               
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                  (1)
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                  Any solid, liquid or gas which has been classified as hazardous waste by the division
                  of health services of the state department of human resources or its successor, or
                  by the Environmental Protection Agency of the United States or its successor;
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                  (2)
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                  Any solid, liquid or gas which, when burned or combined with any other solid, liquid
                  or gas, would be classified as hazardous waste as provided in subsection (1) of this
                  definition; or
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                  (3)
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                  Any other solid, liquid or gas which the county manager, in consultation with the
                  health director, determines is detrimental to the public health, safety and general
                  welfare of the citizens of the county.
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               <span class="ital">Ionizing radiation</span> means gamma rays and X-rays, alpha and beta particles, high speed electrons, protons,
               neutrons and other nuclear particles; but not sound or radio waves or visible, infrared
               or ultraviolet light.
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               <span class="ital">Nonionizing radiation</span> means radiation in any portion of the electromagnetic spectrum not defined as ionizing
               radiation, including, but not limited to, such sources as laser, maser or microwave
               devices.
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               <span class="ital">Person</span> means any individual, corporation, partnership, firm, association, trust, estate,
               public or private institution, group, agency, or political subdivision of this state,
               any other state or political subdivision or agency thereof, and any legal successor,
               representative, agent or agency of such entities, other than the United States Nuclear
               Regulatory Commission or any successor thereto, and other than federal government
               agencies licensed by the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission or any successor
               thereto.
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               <span class="ital">Radiation</span> means gamma rays and X-rays, alpha and beta particles, high speed electrons, protons,
               neutrons and other nuclear particles, and electromagnetic radiation consisting of
               associated and interacting electric and magnetic waves, including those with frequencies
               between 3 times 10 to the eighth power cycles per second and 3 times 10 to the twenty-fourth
               power cycles per second and wavelengths between 1 times 10 to the minus fourteenth
               power centimeters and 100 centimeters.
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               <span class="ital">Radiation machine</span> means any device designed to produce or which produces radiation or nuclear particles
               when the associated control devices of the machine are operated.
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               <span class="ital">Radioactive material</span> means any solid, liquid or gas which emits ionizing radiation spontaneously.
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               (Ord. No. 80-01, Â§ 2, 8-25-80; Ord. of 10-3-20(1), Â§ 5)
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            <p class="refcross0" block_type="hang"><b>Cross referenceâ€” </b>
               Definitions and rules of construction generally, <a href="" data-chunk-id="COOR_CH1GEPR_S1-2DERUCO" class="section-link" data-product-id="12207">Â§ 1-2</a>.
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