§ 50-31. Purpose; definitions.

(a)

Purpose. The purpose of the rules and regulations contained in this article is to provide for the protection of the public health by prescribing the manner of storage, collection, transportation and disposal of residential and industrial solid waste generated within the corporate limits of the city.

(b)

Definitions. For the purpose of these regulations, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this article as follows:

Garbage means putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking, and consumption of food.

Hazardous waste means material in a solid or semisolid state resulting from the manufacture or use of pesticides or drugs (other than normal household use), pathological wastes, chemical wastes, flammable or explosive materials, and similar waste material in a solid or semisolid state, that the city may consider a likely hazard to the public health poor safety, except radioactive waste materials, as provided in Rules of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Chapter 391-1-1, entitled "Radioactive Materials."

Industrial waste or industrial sold waste means the solid waste materials from factories, processing plants and manufacturing enterprises, and includes food processing wastes, meat and poultry processing waste, condemned food, ashes and cinders from power plants, agriculture products waste, land clearance waste and similar waste.

Open dump means a disposal site at which solid waste from one or more sources is consolidated and left to decompose, burn or to otherwise create environmental pollution or nuisance.

Premises means land, buildings or other structures, vehicles, watercraft, or parts thereof, upon or in which solid waste is stored.

Putrescible wastes means wastes that are capable of being decomposed by microorganisms. Included are kitchen wastes, manure, offal, hatchery and poultry wastes, and garbage.

Reclamation means a controlled method of sorting and storing solid wastes for future use in accordance with an approved plan.

Rubbish means nonputrescible solid waste consisting of both combustible and noncombustible waste not subject to rapid decomposition derived from places of residence, commercial areas and institutions and shall include paper, rags, plastics, cartons, boxes, tree and yard trimmings, furniture, appliances, metals, minerals, cans, bottles, glass, crockery, excelsior, bedding, rubber, discarded clothing and similar materials.

Sanitary land filling means a method of disposing of putrescible waste and/or hazardous waste on land by placing an earth cover thereon.

Scavenge means uncontrolled picking from discarded solid waste materials.

Solid waste means putrescible and nonputrescible waste, except human body waste, and shall include garbage, rubbish, paper, cartons, boxes, wood, tree branches, yard trimmings, furniture, appliances, metals, tin cans, glass, crockery, dunnage, ashes, street refuse, dead animals, waste materials generated in industrial operations, residue incineration, food processing wastes, demolition wastes, construction wastes, and any other wastes in a solid or semi-solid state, not otherwise described.

Waste means unwanted or discarded material, except human body waste.

(Prior Code, § 13-1)

Cross reference

Definitions generally, § 1-2.