<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 32-163. - 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">Brown goods</span> means mattresses, sofas, tables, chairs, televisions, electronic equipment and any
               other furniture or consumer goods of this nature.
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               <span class="ital">Construction debris</span> means and includes any discarded material such as, but not limited to, lumber, brick,
               plastic, aluminum, roofing materials, insulation materials, plaster, sheet rock, vinyl,
               concrete or other substances accumulated as a result of repairs or additions to existing
               structures or buildings, construction of new structures or buildings, or demolition
               of existing structures or buildings, not to exclude debris generated from potential
               or actual construction sites, such as tree limbs, tree stumps, parts of trees or shrubbery
               and rocks, gravel, sand or dirt. The term "construction debris" shall not include
               authorized demolition sites.
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               <span class="ital">Container</span> means a metal, heavy duty paper, or plastic receptacle with a tightfitting lid used
               for the disposal and storage of solid waste and litter.
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               <span class="ital">County solid waste management program</span> means the county's established policy and goals of solid waste management, in accordance
               with this chapter and any other county ordinance.
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               <span class="ital">Demolition site</span> means a site authorized to receive demolition debris.
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               <span class="ital">Dumpster</span> means stationary solid waste containers which require mechanical pickup by customized
               loading vehicles, including roll-off containers which involve the collection of construction
               debris.
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               <span class="ital">Franchisee</span> means a person who has been granted a franchise for the collection of solid waste
               or recyclable materials pursuant to article III of this chapter.
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               <span class="ital">Garbage</span> means the byproduct of food stuffs resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking
               and consumption of food or other matter which is subject to decomposition, decay or
               generation of noxious or offensive gases or odors, or which may serve as breeding
               or feeding materials for rodents, flies, insects or animals.
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               <span class="ital">Household garbage</span> means garbage generated at a person's private residence.
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               <span class="ital">Litter</span> means any amount of organic or inorganic waste material, debris, rubbish, refuse,
               garbage, trash, plastic, hulls, peelings, debris, grass, weeds, ashes, metal or glass
               product containers, broken glass, cardboard, tires, dead animals or discarded materials
               of every kind and description. Litter may include, but is not limited to, any garbage,
               refuse, debris, motor vehicle parts, brown goods, white goods, motor oil, batteries,
               agrichemical containers, construction debris, yard waste, solid waste or any thing
               else which has been discarded, abandoned or otherwise disposed of improperly.
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               <span class="ital">Operator</span> means a person in actual physical control of vehicle.
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               <span class="ital">Public highway, street or road</span> means a dedicated and accepted public right-of-way for vehicular traffic.
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               <span class="ital">Recyclable material</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">Solid waste</span> means all material customarily referred to as garbage or refuse, and other discarded
               material, including solid, semisolid materials or materials resulting from community
               activities, but does not include hazardous waste or solid or dissolved materials in
               domestic sewage, or solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or industrial
               discharges which are point sources subject to permits under section 402 of the Federal
               Water Pollution Control Act, as amended, or source, special nuclear, or byproduct
               materials, as defined by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended.
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               <span class="ital">Solid waste collection sticker</span> means a perforated adhesive sticker authorized for use by the county to be placed
               on solid waste collection bags indicating that it is permissible for such bag, with
               a sticker attached, to be collected by a franchisee or received at a staffed convenience
               center or the county landfill for disposal.
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               <span class="ital">Vehicle</span> means every device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported
               or drawn upon a highway, street, road or other passageway, or upon any navigable water.
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               <span class="ital">White goods</span> means refrigerators, stoves, water heaters, washing machines, dryers, dishwashers
               and any other scrap metals or goods of this nature.
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               <span class="ital">Yard waste</span> means any amount of waste accumulation of long grass, or shrubbery, or vine cuttings
               or clippings, or dry leaf rakings, tree branches, tree limbs, parts of trees, bushes
               or any other vegetation debris.
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               (Code 1984, Â§ 13-58; Ord. of 9-2-1991, art. III)
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