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For the purpose of these regulations and unless defined in other sections, the terms, phrases and words shall have the following meanings:

(1) Agricultural waste. The manure or crop residues from various agricultural pursuits, including, but not limited to, dairies and the raising of livestock and poultry. (1.1)

(2) Bulky waste. Large items of residential solid waste, including, but not limited to, appliances, furniture, trees, branches, and stumps. (1.2)

(3) Collector. Any person who collects or transports solid waste. (1.3)

(4) Compaction. The volume reduction of material under load. (1.4)

(5) Compost. Organic waste material that has biologically decomposed or is in the process of biologically decomposing under controlled conditions. (1.5)

(6) Composting. The biological decomposition of organic waste under controlled conditions. (1.6)

(7) Compost plant. Any place or facility where composting occurs, except as provided in Section 24-2-111(5) of these regulations. (1.7)

(8) Construction and demolition waste. Waste building materials and rubble resulting from construction, remodeling, repair, or demolition operations on houses, commercial buildings, structures, or pavements. (1.8)

(9) Container. Department and collection agency approved metal, heavy-duty paper, or plastic receptacles used for storage or disposal of solid waste. (1.9)

(10) Cover material. Soil or other material used to cover compacted solid waste, which is free of objects that hinder compaction and free of content conducive to vector harborage, feeding, or breeding. (1.10)

(11) Department. The Salt Lake City-County Health Department, the West Valley City Police Department, the West Valley City Public Works Department, or the West Valley City Ordinance Enforcement Division. (1.11)

(12) Director. The Chief Ordinance Enforcement Officer or his authorized representative. (1.12)

(13) Disposal site. Any location, place, tract of land, or area, including any structure where solid waste is finally deposited. (1.13)

(14) Dust. Any particulate matter capable of being suspended in air. (1.14)

(15) Facility. Any structure, machinery, equipment, or recycling, reclamation resource recovery, or processing facility, system, or process used in the storage, collection, transfer, incineration, pyrolization, consolidation, segregation, treatment, conversion, utilization, processing, classification, volume reduction, or disposal of solid waste. (1.15)

(16) Garbage. The animal and vegetable waste or food refuse resulting from handling, preparing, cooking, or consumption of food. (1.16)

(17) Ground water. Water occurring in the zone of saturation in any aquifer or soil. (1.17)

(18) Hazardous waste.

a. Any solid waste or combination of solid wastes that because of its quantity, concentration, physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics may:

i. Cause or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible or incapacitating reversible illness; or

ii. Pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment if improperly treated, stored, transported, disposed, or otherwise managed.

b. Any waste exempted or that does not meet the criteria as a hazardous waste under state or federal regulations shall be exempted as a hazardous waste under these regulations. (1.18)

(19) Household. The association of persons who live in the same dwelling, sharing its furnishings, facilities, accommodations, and expenses.

(20) Household income. All income received by all persons of a household in the calendar year next preceding the year in which a claim is filed.

(21) Incineration. The controlled burning of solid, liquid, or gaseous combustible waste for volume or weight reduction or both or for the salvaging of material. (1.19)

(22) Incinerator. A device used for the destruction, volume or weight reduction, or salvaging of waste material by burning. (1.20)

(23) Income. The sum of federal adjusted gross income as defined in the Internal Revenue Code and all nontaxable income, including, but not limited to, the amount of capital gains excluded from adjusted gross income, alimony, support money, nontaxable strike benefits, cash public assistance, and relief, the gross amount of any pension or annuity, including Railroad Retirement Act benefits and veterans disability pensions, all payments received under the Federal Social Security and state unemployment insurance laws, nontaxable interest received from the federal government or any of its instrumentalities, workman's compensation, and the gross amount of "loss of time" insurance. "Income" does not include gifts from nongovernmental sources or surplus foods or other relief in kind supplied by a public or private agency.

(24) Industrial waste. Any waste, either liquid, solid, or gas or any combination of these, resulting from any process of industry, manufacturing, trade, business, mining, agriculture, or the development of a natural resource. (1.21)

(25) Inoperable vehicle. Any automobile, truck, motor home, or bus not currently registered and licensed in this state or another state, or in any of the following conditions that shall be considered unsightly or deleterious: dismantled; broken windows; flat or no tires; missing doors, fenders, hood, or trunk; won't start; isn't driveable; or any other condition that would result in the vehicle's failure to pass state inspection.

(26) Junk. Any salvaged or scrap copper; brass; iron; steel; metal; rope; rags; batteries; paper; wood; trash; plastic; rubber; tires; waste; dismantled, wrecked, or inoperable motor vehicles or parts; or other articles or materials commonly designated as junk.

(27) Leachate. Liquid that has percolated through or drained from solid waste and contains extracted, dissolved, or suspended material. (1.22)

(28) Litter. Any quantity of uncontainerized paper, metal, plastic, glass, or miscellaneous solid waste. (1.23)

(29) Littering. The willful or negligent throwing, dropping, placing, depositing, or sweeping of solid waste on any premises other than in approved storage containers and sites. (1.24)

(30) Nuisance. Unlawfully doing an act that annoys, injures, or endangers the comfort, repose, health, or safety of any person, or that renders a person insecure in life or the use of property. (1.25)

(31) Open burning. A fire whose products of combustion are emitted directly into the open air without passing through a stack or chimney. (1.26)

(32) Open dump. Any disposal site that does not comply with these regulations. (1.27)

(33) Operator. A person who owns, leases, or manages a site or facility. (1.28)

(34) Owner. Any person who alone, jointly, or severally with others:

a. has legal title to any premises, dwelling, or dwelling unit, with or without accompanying actual possession thereof; or

b. has charge, care, or control of any premises, dwelling, or dwelling unit, as legal or equitable owner, agent of the owner, lessee, or is an executor, executrix, administrator, administratrix, trustee, or guardian of the estate of the owner. (1.29)

(35) Person. Any individual, public or private corporation and its officers, partnership, association, firm, trustee, executor of an estate, the State or its departments, institution, bureau, agency, county, city, political subdivision, or any legal entity recognized by law. (1.30)

(36) Processing facility. Transfer station, compost or pyrolysis plant, incinerator, recycling, reclamation or resource recovery facility, or location where solid wastes are temporarily stored, classified, consolidated, baled, shredded, composted, salvaged, treated, or handled prior to final disposal. (1.31)

(37) Pyrolysis. The chemical decomposition of material by heat in an oxygen-deficient atmosphere. (1.32)

(38) Pyrolysis plant. A place or facility where pyrolysis occurs. (1.33)

(39) Reclamation facility. A facility where solid wastes are stored, dismantled, segregated, or reprocessed to recover salvageable materials for sale or reuse. (1.34)

(40) Recycling. The reuse of all or part of recovered solid waste by resource recovery for manufacturing, agriculture, power or heat production, or any other process. (1.35)

(41) Recycling facility. Any place, plant, or equipment designed and operated to store, collect, redistribute, and return processed materials to market. (1.36)

(42) Refuse. Garbage, rubbish, and other discarded material. (1.37)

(43) Residential solid waste. Refuse produced by or resulting from the normal activities of residential households, and excluding asphalt, concrete, dirt, rocks, or other similar materials not normally associated with day-to-day residential household activities.

(44) Residue. All solids that remain after incineration, including grate siftings, ash, and fly ash. (1.38)

(45) Resource recovery. The processing of solid waste to produce materials or energy that may be used or in manufacturing, agriculture, power or heat production, or any other process. (1.39)

(46) Resource recovery facility. Any place, plant, equipment, or device designed and operated to separate or process solid or liquid waste into useable material, including, but not limited to, fuel, heat, and other energy. (1.40)

(47) Rubbish. All solid waste except garbage and hazardous waste, including, but not limited to, ashes, bedding, cardboard, paper, wood, cans, metal, glass, crockery, rubber, plastic, leather, rags, and yard trimmings. (1.41)

(48) Salvaging. The controlled removal of waste materials for utilization. (1.42)

(49) Scavenge. The uncontrolled removal of solid wastes from a site or facility. (1.43)

(50) Sewage. Liquid or water carried wastes, or both, produced by any person, animals, or fowl from residences, business buildings, institutions, industrial establishments, or agricultural, recreational, or other locations, including but not limited to septic tanks, privy vaults, and cesspools, together with ground water, surface water and storm water. (1.44)

(51) Site. Any place, tract of land, or facility used for the storage, collection, transfer, conversion, utilization, processing, treatment, incineration, pyrolization, handling, or disposal of solid waste. (1.45)

(52) Sludge. Any solid, semisolid, or liquid waste having similar characteristics and effects, generated from municipal, commercial, industrial waste water and water supply treatment plants, or air pollution control facilities. (1.46)

(53) Solid waste. Garbage, junk, inoperable vehicles, refuse, trash, rubbish, residential solid waste, hazardous waste, special waste, industrial waste, construction and demolition waste, dead animals, manure or feces, sludge, liquid or semi-liquid waste, asphalt other than that being used for hard surfacing, organic materials, and waste concrete or rocks larger than 12 inches in diameter; other spent, useless, worthless, or discarded materials or materials stored or accumulated for the purpose of discarding; materials that have served their original intended purpose; or waste material resulting from industrial, manufacturing, mining, commercial, agricultural, residential, institutional, recreational, or community activities. It does not include solid or dissolved materials in domestic sewage or in irrigation return flows or discharges for which a permit is required under Chapter 11, Title 26, Utah Code Annotated, 1953 (as amended), or under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, 33 U.S.C., Section 1251, et. seq. (1.47)

(54) Special waste. Those wastes that are not considered hazardous but may require complex or special management due to characteristics such as high moisture content or bulk. (1.48)

(55) Transfer station. A facility where solid waste is transferred from collection to haulage vehicles for transportation to another facility or site. (1.49)

(56) Trash. Materials including, but not limited to, garbage, construction or demolition debris, clothing, rags, yard trimmings, or other refuse resulting from the conducting of any business, trade, or industry. (1.50)

(57) Used Oil. Oil which has been refined from crude oil, used, and as a result of that use, contaminated by physical or chemical impurities. (1.51)

(58) Used Oil Collector. Any person who has obtained, from the State of Utah, a permit allowing the collection of used oil for resale to oil refining facilities or disposal by other methods approved by law. (1.52)

(59) Waste contractor. A person(s) engaged in the business of collecting, hauling, or transporting garbage, refuse, agricultural or hazardous waste, sewage, sludge, dead animals, bones, or other solid waste. (1.53)

(60) Water table. The upper surface of the zone of saturation, if unconfined by an impervious formation, and that can be referred to in terms of elevation. (1.54)

(61) Working face. Any part of a disposal site where solid waste is being disposed and compacted prior to placement of cover material. (1.55)

(Ord. No. 94-58 Amended 06/22/1994; Ord. No. 94-65 Amended 06/30/1994; Ord. No. 00-12 Amended 02/24/2000)