§ 8.12.020. Definitions.

For use in this chapter the following terms are defined:

"Approved incinerator" means equipment or facilities for the enclosed burning of refuse having a stack adequate to maintain a draft sufficient for efficient combustion and equipped with a screen sufficiently fine to prevent ejection of particles of burning materials as approved by the Iowa Air Quality Commission.

"Backyard burning" means the disposal of residential waste by open burning on the premises of the property where such waste is generated.

"Curbside collection of recyclables" means semi-monthly collection of recyclable materials set at the curbside by occupants of residential properties.

"Discard" means to place, cause to be placed, throw, deposit or drop.

"Executive director" means the executive director of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources or his designee.

"Garbage" means all solid and semisolid, putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling, preparing, cooking, storing, serving and consuming of food or of material intended for use as food, and all offal, excluding useful industrial products, and shall include all such substances from all public and private establishments and from all residences.

"Landscape waste" means any vegetable or plant wastes except garbage. The term includes trees, tree trimmings, tree limbs and branches, stumps, brush, weeds, leaves, grass, shrubbery, flowers, yard trimmings and other organic debris.

"Litter" means any garbage, rubbish, trash, refuse, waste material or debris.

"Open burning" means any burning of combustible materials where the products of combustion are emitted into the open air without passing through a chimney or stack.

"Open dumping" means the depositing of solid wastes on the surface of the ground or into a body or stream of water.

"Owner" means, in addition to the record titleholder, any person residing in, renting, leasing, occupying, operating or transacting business in any premises, and as between such parties the duties, responsibilities, liabilities and obligations hereinafter imposed shall be joint and several.

"Recyclable materials" means glass, no. 1 and no. 2 plastic, newsprint, and tin cans as acceptable by the re-cycle center.

"Recycle center" means the Mahaska Recycle Center or other recycle center operated by the Mahaska County Solid Waste Management Commission to receive, process and market recyclable materials brought to the center.

"Refuse" means putrescible and nonputrescible wastes, including but not limited to, garbage, rubbish, ashes, incinerator residues, street cleanings, market and industrial solid wastes and sewage treatment wastes in dry or semisolid form.

"Residential waste" means any refuse generated on the premises as a result of residential activities. The term excludes landscape wastes grown on the premises or deposited thereon by the elements, and excludes garbage, tires and trade wastes.

"Rubbish" means nonputrescible solid waste consisting of combustible and noncombustible wastes, such as ashes, paper, cardboard, tin cans, yard clippings, wood, glass bedding, crockery or litter of any kind.

"Rubble" means stone, brick or similar inorganic material.

"Salvage operation" means any business, industry or trade engaged wholly or in part in salvaging or reclaiming any product or material, including, but not limited to, chemicals, drums, metals, motor vehicles or shipping containers.

"Sanitary disposal" means a method of treating solid waste so that it does not produce a hazard to the public health or safety or create a nuisance.

"Sanitary disposal project" means all facilities and appurtenances including all real and personal property connected with such facilities, which are acquired, purchased, constructed, reconstructed, equipped, improved, extended, maintained, or operated to facilitate the final disposition of solid waste without creating a significant hazard to the public health or safety, and which are approved by the executive director.

"Solid waste" means garbage, refuse, rubbish, and other similar discarded solid or semisolid materials, including but not limited to, such materials resulting from industrial, commercial, agricultural, and domestic activities. Solid waste may include vehicles, as defined by subsection one of Section 321.1 of the code of Iowa.

"Toxic and hazardous wastes" means waste materials, including but not limited to, poisons, pesticides, herbicides, acids, caustics, pathological wastes, flammable or explosive materials and similar harmful wastes which re-quire special handling and which must be disposed of in such a manner as to conserve the environment and protect the public health and safety.

(Ord. 1154 §§2, 3, 2003)