<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 11-2. - Definitions.</div>
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               The following definitions apply in the interpretation and enforcement of this chapter:
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               <span class="ital">Board</span> means the Board of Commissioners of Currituck County.
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               <span class="ital">Bulky waste</span> means large items of solid waste such as furniture, large auto parts, trees, branches,
               stumps, and other oversize wastes whose large size precludes or complicates their
               handling by normal solid waste collection, processing or disposal methods.
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               <span class="ital">Collection</span> means the act of removing solid waste (or materials that have been separated for
               the purpose of recycling) to a transfer station, processing facility or disposal facility.
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               <span class="ital">Commercial solid waste</span> means all types of solid waste generated by stores, offices, restaurants, warehouses,
               and other nonmanufacturing activities, excluding residential and industrial waste.
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               <span class="ital">Construction and demolition waste</span> means solid waste resulting solely from construction, remodeling, repair, or demolition
               operations on buildings, and other structures, but does not include inert debris,
               landclearing debris, yard debris, or used asphalt, asphalt mixed with dirt, sand gravel,
               rock concrete or similar nonhazardous material.
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               <span class="ital">Department</span> means the department of environment, health and natural resources.
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               <span class="ital">Garbage</span> means all putrescible waste, including animal offal and carcasses, and recognizable
               industrial byproducts, but excluding sewage and human waste.
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               <span class="ital">Hazardous waste</span> means solid waste or a combination of solid wastes, that because of its 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">Incineration</span> means the process of burning solid, semisolid, or gaseous combustible wastes to an
               inoffensive gas and a residue containing little or no combustible material.
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               <span class="ital">Industrial solid waste</span> means solid waste generated by industrial processes and manufacturing.
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               <span class="ital">Inert debris</span> means solid waste that consists solely of material that is virtually inert and that
               is likely to retain its physical and chemical structure under expected conditions
               of disposal.
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               <span class="ital">Institutional solid waste</span> means solid waste generated by educational, health care, correctional, and other
               institutional facilities.
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               <span class="ital">Land-clearing debris</span> means solid waste that is generated solely from land-clearing activities.
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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 that 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">Medical waste</span> means any solid waste that is generated in the diagnosis, treatment, or immunization
               of human beings or animals, in research pertaining thereto, or in the production or
               testing of biologicals, but does not include any hazardous waste, radioactive waste,
               household waste as defined in 40 C.F.R. 261.4(b)(1), or those substances excluded
               from the definition of "solid waste" in this chapter.
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               <span class="ital">Municipal solid waste</span> means solid waste resulting from the operation of residential, commercial, industrial,
               governmental or institutional establishments that would normally be collected, processed
               and disposed of through a public or private solid waste management service. Municipal
               solid waste does not include hazardous waste, sludge or solid waste from mining or
               agricultural operations.
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               <span class="ital">Municipal solid waste management facility</span> means any publicly-owned or privately-owned solid waste management facility permitted
               by the department that receives municipal solid waste for processing, treatment or
               disposal.
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               <span class="ital">Pathological waste</span> means human tissues, organs, and body parts, and the carcasses and body parts of
               any animals that were known to have been exposed to pathogens that are potentially
               dangerous to humans during research, were used in the production of biological or
               in vivo testing of pharmaceuticals, or that died with a known or suspected disease
               transmissible to humans.
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               <span class="ital">Person</span> means any individual, corporation, company, association, partnership, unit of local
               government, state agency, federal agency or other legal entity.
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               <span class="ital">Processing</span> means any technique designed to change the physical, chemical or biological character
               or composition of any solid waste so as to render it safe for transport; amenable
               to recovery, storage or recycling; safe for disposal; or reduced in volume or concentration.
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               <span class="ital">Putrescible</span> means solid waste capable of being decomposed by microorganisms with sufficient rapidity
               as to cause nuisances from odors and gases, such as kitchen wastes, offal and animal
               carcasses.
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               <span class="ital">Radioactive waste</span> means waste containing any material, whether solid, liquid or gas that emits ionizing
               radiation spontaneously.
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               <span class="ital">Recycling</span> means the process by which solid waste or recovered materials are collected, separated,
               or processed, and reused or returned to use in the form of raw materials or products.
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               <span class="ital">Refuse</span> means solid waste, excluding garbage or ashes, from residences, commercial establishments
               and institutions.
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               <span class="ital">Regulated medical waste</span> means blood and body fluids in individual containers in volumes greater than 20 ml,
               microbiological waste, and pathological waste that has not been treated pursuant to
               rules promulgated by the department.
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               <span class="ital">Resource recovery</span> means the process of obtaining material or energy resources from discarded solid
               waste that no longer has any useful life in its present form and preparing the solid
               waste for recycling.
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               <span class="ital">Sanitary landfill</span> means a facility for disposal of solid waste on land in a sanitary manner in accordance
               with the rules concerning sanitary landfills adopted pursuant to G.S. Ch. 130A, article
               9.
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               <span class="ital">Scrap tire</span> means a tire that is no longer suitable for its original, intended purpose because
               of wear, damage or defect.
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               <span class="ital">Septage</span> means solid waste that is a fluid mixture of untreated and partially treated sewage
               solids, liquids and sludge of human or domestic origin that is removed from a septic
               tank system.
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               <span class="ital">Sharps</span> means needles, syringes and scalpel blades.
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               <span class="ital">Sludge</span> means any solid, semisolid or liquid waste generated from a municipal, commercial,
               institutional, or industrial wastewater treatment plant, water supply treatment plant,
               or air pollution control facility, or any other waste having similar characteristics
               and effects.
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               <span class="ital">Solid waste</span> means hazardous or nonhazardous garbage, refuse, or sludge from a waste treatment
               plant, water supply treatment plant or air pollution control facility, domestic sewage
               and sludges generated by the treatment thereof in sanitary sewage collection, treatment
               and disposal systems, and other material that is either discarded or is being accumulated,
               stored or treated prior to being accumulated, stored or treated prior to being discarded,
               or has served its original intended use and is generally discarded, including solid,
               liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, institutional,
               commercial, and agricultural operations, and from community activities. The term does
               not include:
               
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                  (1)
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                  Fecal waste from fowls and animals other than humans;
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                  (2)
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                  Solid or dissolved material in:
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                  a.
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                  Domestic sewage and sludges generated by treatment thereof in sanitary sewage collection,
                  treatment, and disposal systems that are designed to discharge effluents to the surface
                  waters;
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                  b.
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                  Irrigation return flows; and
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                  c.
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                  Wastewater discharges and the sludges incidental to and generated by treatment which
                  are point sources subject to permits granted under section 402 of the Water Pollution
                  Control Act, as amended (P. L. 92-500), and permits granted under G.S. 143-215.1 by
                  the environmental management commission. However, any sludges that meet the criteria
                  for hazardous waste under RCRA shall also be a solid waste for purposes of this definition.
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                  (3)
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                  Oils and other liquid hydrocarbons controlled under G.S. Ch. 143, Article 21A. However,
                  any oils or other liquid hydrocarbons that meet the criteria for hazardous waste under
                  RCRA shall also be a solid waste for the purposes of this definition.
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                  (4)
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                  Any source, special nuclear or byproduct material as defined by the Atomic Energy
                  Act of 1954, as amended (42 U.S.C. 2011);
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                  (5)
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                  Mining refuse covered by the state mining act, G.S. 74-46 through 74-68, and regulated
                  by the state mining commission. However, any specific mining waste that meets the
                  criteria for hazardous waste under RCRA shall also be a solid waste for the purposes
                  of this definition.
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               <span class="ital">Solid waste collector</span> means any person who collects or transports solid waste.
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               <span class="ital">Solid waste disposal site</span> means a location at which solid waste is disposed of by incineration, sanitary landfill,
               or other approved method.
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               <span class="ital">Solid waste receptacle</span> means a container used for the temporary storage of solid waste while awaiting collection.
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               <span class="ital">Source separation</span> means setting aside recyclable materials at their point of generation by the generator.
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               <span class="ital">Tire</span> means a continuous solid or pneumatic rubber covering encircling the steel of a motor
               vehicle as defined in G.S. 20-4.01I23).
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               <span class="ital">Unit</span> means an enclosure containing sleeping, kitchen and bathroom facilities designed
               for and used as a residence. Each unit of an apartment or condominium dwelling, whether
               of single or multilevel construction, shall be treated as a unit.
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               <span class="ital">Used oil</span> means any oil that has been refined from crude oil or synthetic oil and, as a result
               of use, storage, or handling, has become unsuitable for its original purpose.
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               <span class="ital">White goods</span> means inoperative and discarded refrigerators, ranges, water heaters, freezers and
               other similar domestic and commercial large appliances.
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               <span class="ital">Yard trash</span> means solid waste consisting solely of vegetative matter resulting from landscaping
               maintenance.
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               (Ord. of 5-18-92, Â§ II)
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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="12419">Â§ 1-2</a>.
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