<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 24-19. - Definitions.</div>
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               Except as specifically defined within this section or elsewhere within this article,
               all words used in this article will be construed to have their customary dictionary
               definitions.
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               Words used in the present tense shall include, where appropriate, the past and future
               tense. Where appropriate, words in the singular shall include the plural and words
               used in the plural shall conversely include the singular. The word "shall" is mandatory;
               the word "may" is permissive.
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               The following words and terms shall have the respective meanings ascribed to them:
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               <span class="ital">Commercial waste</span> means any solid waste generated by a business that is classified as a commercial
               business for the purpose of paying a solid waste facility fee by the Jackson County
               Tax Assessor's Office. Waiver of this fee by any government agency shall not remove
               such waste from the category of commercial waste.
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               <span class="ital">Construction and demolition (C&amp;D) waste</span> means solid waste generated solely from construction, remodeling, repair or demolition
               operations on pavement, buildings or other structures, but does not include inert
               debris, land clearing debris or yard waste.
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               <span class="ital">Damage</span> means to cause harm.
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               <span class="ital">Hazardous waste</span> means waste materials that because of their quantity, concentration or physical,
               chemical or infectious characteristics may:
               
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                  (1)
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                  Cause or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious
                  irreversible or incapacitating reversible illness; or
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                  (2)
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                  Pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment
                  when improperly treated, stored, transported, disposed of, or otherwise managed.
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               <span class="ital">Jackson County Solid Waste Office (JCSWO)</span> means the office of the chief administrator of the Jackson County solid waste operation.
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               <span class="ital">Jackson County Transfer Station (JCTS)</span> means a facility for the reuse, recycling and transfer of solid waste; excluding
               hazardous waste.
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               <span class="ital">Land clearing and inert debris (LCID)</span> means solid waste generated solely from land-clearing activities and solid waste
               which consists solely of materials that are virtually inert and that are likely to
               retain their physical and chemical structure under expected conditions of disposal.
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               <span class="ital">Landfill</span> means a disposal facility or part of a disposal facility where waste is placed in
               or on land and which is not a land treatment facility, a surface impoundment, an injection
               well, a hazardous waste long-term storage facility or a surface storage facility.
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               <span class="ital">Mixed solid waste</span> means any solid waste, C&amp;D, and LCID material that has not been sorted for proper
               disposal in the Jackson County Landfill.
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               <span class="ital">Open dump</span> means any facility or site where solid waste is disposed that is not a solid waste
               facility.
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               <span class="ital">Person</span> means an individual, corporation, company association, partnership, unit of local
               government, state agency, federal agency or other legal entity.
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               <span class="ital">Private hauler</span> means any person charging a fee for transporting solid waste for another person including
               maintenance services in which their duties include hauling residential solid waste.
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               <span class="ital">Recyclable materials</span> means those materials which are capable of being recycled and which would otherwise
               be processed or disposed of as solid waste.
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               <span class="ital">Residential waste</span> means solid waste, (excluding C&amp;D, LCID, and hazardous waste) generated in the normal
               daily activities of a single residence.
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               <span class="ital">Solid waste</span> means any garbage, refuse, rubbish, litter, trash, or other discarded solid or semi-solid
               materials resulting from residential, industrial, commercial, and agricultural operations
               and from community activities. Solid waste does NOT include solid materials in domestic
               sewage, silt or suspended solids in industrial wastewater effluent, solid materials
               in irrigation return flows, or other suspended solid pollutants in water resources,
               fecal waste from animals other than humans and household pets, and non-hazardous mining
               refuse. Solid waste includes commercial waste, residential waste, C&amp;D waste, LCID,
               hazardous waste, and recycling materials.
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               <span class="ital">Solid waste containers</span> means receptacles utilized for the collection and transportation of solid waste.
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               <span class="ital">Solid waste facility</span> means any sanitary landfill, LCID landfill, C&amp;D landfill, or transfer station that
               is approved by the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources
               (DENR), or staffed recycling center.
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               <span class="ital">Solid waste availability fee</span> means a fee collected from those who reside or own businesses in Jackson County for
               the purpose of providing capital funds for the availability of solid waste facilities
               for the citizens of Jackson County.
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               <span class="ital">Solid waste user/tipping fee</span> means a fee collected from those who use a solid waste facility for the purpose of
               operating and maintaining those facilities.
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               <span class="ital">Staffed recycling center (SRC)</span> means a facility for Jackson County residents, where specified categories of residential
               waste will be accepted by the attendants, and recycling receptacles shall be provided.
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               <span class="ital">Tipping fee</span> means a charge for the use of solid waste facilities. It may be assessed by weight,
               or volume of materials discarded, or as a flat rate.
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               <span class="ital">White goods</span> means refrigerators, ranges, water heaters, freezers, unit air conditioners, washing
               machines, dishwashers, clothes dryers, and other similar domestic and commercial large
               appliances.
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               <span class="ital">Yard waste</span> means vegetative waste generated by outdoor landscaping activities on residential
               property.
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               (Ord. of 12-18-2001; Ord. of 7-15-2003; Ord. No. 005-04, Â§ 301, 7-2-2007; Ord. of
               2-6-2012, Â§Â§ 300, 301; Ord. No. 005-04(amended), Â§Â§ 300, 301, 4-21-2014; Ord. No.
               O05.04, Â§Â§ 300, 301, 7-21-2016)
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