<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 18-1. - Definitions.</div>
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               The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this chapter, 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 furniture including upholstered pieces and mattresses.
               
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               <span class="ital">Cart</span> means a roll-out container furnished by the prime contractor for the storage and
               disposal of solid waste.
               
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               <span class="ital">Collection</span> means the act of removing solid waste or recyclable materials from a point of generation
               to a central storage point or to a disposal site and from a central storage point
               to a disposal site.
               
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               <span class="ital">Commercial entity</span> means a non-residential customer such as a business, commercial, governmental, civic,
               religious, industrial, or manufacturing entity.
               
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               <span class="ital">Commercial structure</span> means a structure that uses dumpster equipment.
               
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               <span class="ital">Construction and demolition waste</span> means waste building materials, packaging and rubble resulting from construction,
               remodeling, repair and demolition operations on pavements, houses, commercial buildings
               and other structures.
               
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               <span class="ital">Contractor</span> means a person who is in the business of the collection, transportation and disposal
               of solid waste or recyclable materials.
               
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               <span class="ital">Curbside</span> means the location adjacent to but no more than ten feet from the edge of a roadway
               providing access to a residence or hand commercial establishment.
               
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               <span class="ital">Customer</span> means the beneficiary of services provided under this chapter within the county and
               its municipalities.
               
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               <span class="ital">Date of record</span> means January 1, the statutory date on which property is to be listed for taxation.
               
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               <span class="ital">Dumpster</span> means stationary solid waste containers which require mechanical pick-up by customized
               loading vehicles, including roll-off containers.
               
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               <span class="ital">Excluded structure</span> means a subject structure which, as of the date of record, was certified by the building
               inspector as being uninhabitable, for which was certified by the power company that
               electrical service was disconnected, or for which was certified by the tax assessor
               that the structure is suitable for storage only.
               
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               <span class="ital">Extra services</span> means solid waste collection services rendered in addition to once-per-week curbside
               collection for carts. These services may include any service relating to the collection
               of solid waste and recyclables which may be agreed upon between the prime contractor
               and a customer authorized to receive such solid waste collection services from the
               prime contractor pursuant to an agreed upon rate. Charges for extra services billed
               customers by the prime contractor shall be subject to reasonable review and approval
               of the county. The customer may use a contractor of their choice in lieu of the prime
               contractor.
               
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               <span class="ital">Hand commercial establishment</span> means any commercial entity generating less than one cubic yard of solid waste weekly
               and uses a cart for solid waste collection. Any hand commercial establishment that
               requires more than one cart may arrange for more than one such cart as described in<a href="" data-chunk-id="PTIICOOR_CH18SOWA_ARTIIIFECO_S18-63BIADCA" class="section-link" data-product-id="15271"> section 18-63</a>.
               
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               <span class="ital">Hazardous waste</span> means a solid waste, or combination of solid wastes, which, 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, or disposed of, or otherwise managed.
                  
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               <span class="ital">Improved property</span> means real property which contains a subject structure or a commercial structure.
               
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               <span class="ital">Industrial solid</span> waste means solid waste generated by industrial processes and manufacturing.
               
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               <span class="ital">Ordinance</span> means the county ordinance relating to the contracting for private solid waste and
               recyclable material collectors and the collection and disposal of solid waste and
               recyclable materials within the county.
               
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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">Prime contractor</span> means the contractor with whom Martin County has contracted for provision of solid
               waste collection and recycling services within the county.
               
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               <span class="ital">Recycling</span> means any process by which solid waste or materials, which would otherwise become
               solid waste, 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">Recycling container</span> means a container furnished by the prime contractor for collection of specified recyclable
               materials at the curb.
               
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               <span class="ital">Recyclable material</span> means (i) aluminum and bi-metal cans, steel (including tin plated steel) cans; (ii)
               category 1 plastic beverage bottles (PET), category 2 plastic dairy/milk and beverage
               bottles (HDPE) , and plastic containers with a neck (except for motor oil or pesticide);
               (iii) newsprint (including advertising inserts); (iv) mixed paper (copy paper, notebook
               paper, office &amp; computer paper, junk mail, shoe, soap and cereal boxes); (v) glass
               containers (clear, green and brown); (vi) magazines (slick, shiny pages not over one-fourth
               inch thick); (vii) any other items which based on market and demand may be accepted
               by the prime contractor's recycling program.
               
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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, semi-solid materials or materials resulting from community
               activities, but does not include (i) hazardous waste materials; (ii) solid or dissolved
               materials in domestic sewage; (iii) solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return
               flows;(iv) industrial discharges which are point sources subject to permits under
               Section 402 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended (86 STAT. 880);
               (v) source, special nuclear, or by-product materials as defined by the Atomic Energy
               Act of 1954, as amended (86 STAT. 923); (vi) construction and demolition waste;(vii)
               vehicular tires; (viii) white goods; (ix) brown goods; (x) yard waste.
               
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               <span class="ital">Subject structure</span> means a primary structure used as a residence, mobile home, apartment, hand commercial
               establishment, school, church, rest home, nursing home, country club, governmental
               office, professional office or other primary structure at which regular activities
               results in the generation of solid waste or recyclables.
               
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               <span class="ital">White goods</span> means any and all household or commercial machines or appliances.
               
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               <span class="ital">Yard</span> waste means leaves, limbs and grass clippings but not stumps, rocks, dirt, or construction
               materials.
               
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               (
               <a class="ordinance-link" href="" data-product-id="15271" data-ordinance-id="683443">
                  Ord. of 12-1-2014(2)
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               )
               
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