Boonville Definitions ordinance (§ 21-117)

As used in this article and article V of this chapter, the following terms shall mean as indicated below:

Approved incinerator: An incinerator which complies with all current regulations of the responsible local, state and federal air pollution control agencies.

Battery or lead-acid battery: A battery designed to contain lead and sulfuric acid with a nominal voltage of at least six volts and of the type intended for use in motor vehicles and watercraft.

City: The City of Boonville, Missouri.

Collection: Removal of solid waste from the designated pickup location to the transportation vehicle.

Director: The director of the solid waste management program for the City of Boonville shall be the city administrator or his designated representative.

Demolition and construction waste: Waste materials from the construction or destruction of residential, industrial or commercial structures.

Disposable solid waste container: Disposable plastic or paper sacks with a capacity of 20 to 35 gallons specifically designed for storage of solid waste.

Hazardous waste: Any waste or combination of wastes, as determined by the Missouri Hazardous Waste Management Commission by rules and regulations which, because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical or infectious characteristics may cause or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible, or incapacitating reversible, illness, or pose a present or potential threat to the health of humans or other living organisms (subsection 260.360(9) of the Missouri Hazardous Waste Management Law).

Infectious waste: Waste deemed "infectious waste" by Missouri Statutes.

Major appliance: Clothes washers and dryers, water heaters, trash compactors, dishwashers, microwave ovens, conventional ovens, ranges, stoves, woodstoves, air conditioners, refrigerators and freezers.

Occupant: Any person who, alone or jointly or severally with others, shall be in actual possession of any dwelling unit or of any other improved real property, either as owner or as a tenant.

Person: Any individual, partnership, co-partnership, firm, company, corporation, association, joint stock company, trust, estate, political subdivision, or organization of any kind, or their legal representative, agent or assigns.

Solid waste: Garbage, refuse and other discarded materials including, but not limited to, solid and semisolid waste materials resulting from industrial, commercial, agricultural, governmental and domestic activities, but does not include hazardous waste as defined in sections 260.360 to 260.432, RSMo, recovered materials, overburden, rock, tailings, matte, slag or other waste material resulting from mining, milling or smelting.

Solid waste container: Receptacle used by any person to store solid waste during the interval between solid waste collections.

Solid waste disposal: The process of discarding or getting rid of unwanted material. In particular the final deposition of solid waste by man. Solid waste management: The entire solid waste system of storage, collection, transportation, processing and disposal.

Storage: Keeping, maintaining or storing solid waste from the time of its production until the time of its collection.

Transportation: The transporting of solid waste from the place of collection or processing to a solid waste processing facility or solid waste disposal area.

Waste tire: A tire that is no longer suitable for its originally intended purpose because of wear, damage, or defect.

Yard waste: Unwanted or discarded leaves, grass clippings, yard and garden vegetation and tree limbs less than one-half inch in diameter and three feet in length.