1. “Agricultural Waste” means all solid waste generated by the growing, washing, or preparation for marketing of agricultural products, without cooking, blanching, or other processing.

2. “Ashes” means solid waste products of coal, wood, or other fuels used for heating and cooking, from all public and private establishments and from all residences.

3. “Can” means a receptacle between fifteen (15) and thirty-two (32) gallon capacity which is designed for garbage collection. It shall be strong, not easily corrodible, rodent-proof, insect proof and shall have two handles attached for easy handling. It shall also be tapered from top to bottom so that contents naturally empty when inverted. There shall be an additional charge for any cans collected.

4. “Cart” means a ninety-six (96) gallon or less receptacle furnished by the City to be used for disposal of garbage that is designed for handling by an automated collection vehicle. Said carts shall be the only residential receptacles collected during weekly pickup without there being a charge for additional service.

5. “Collector of Refuse” means the individual, firm, association, copartnership, corporation, or any other entity whatsoever, including the City of Moses Lake which collects the garbage, rubbish, refuse, solid waste, or other waste material in the City of Moses Lake under any arrangement whatsoever.

6. “Combustible Rubbish” or “Burnable Material” means, in general, the organic component of refuse, paper, rags, cartons, boxes, wood excelsior, furniture, bedding, rubber, plastics, leather, tree branches, lawn trimmings, and the like.

7. “Commercial Refuse” means all solid wastes which originate in businesses, office buildings, stores, markets, theaters, and other buildings. The point at which any of the refuse becomes solid waste and is the responsibility of the City garbage contractor shall be determined by the Utility Service Supervisor of the City.

8. “Compactor” means a container with a device which compresses the loaded material.

9. “Compactor Collection Truck” means an enclosed vehicle provided with special mechanical devices for loading the refuse into the main compartment of the body, for compressing the loaded materials, and for distributing the refuse within the body.

10. “Construction and Demolition Wastes” means building materials and rubble resulting from construction, remodeling, repair and demolition operations on houses, commercial buildings, pavements, and other structures.

11. “Containers” means small receptacles (one- to ten-cubic yard capacity) that can be emptied by compactor collection trucks on site.

12. “Disposal Site” means the location where any treatment, utilization processing or deposition of solid waste occurs.

13. “Drop Box Site” means a loading site where small loads of solid waste are dumped into a large container for transport to a processing and/or disposal site.

14. “Functional Standards” means the criteria for solid waste handling expressed in terms of expected performance.

15. “Garbage” means all putrescible material including all putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking, and consumption of food; swill and carcasses of dead animals, except sewage, sewage sludge and human body wastes.

16. “Groundwater” means water in the ground that is in the zone of saturation.

17. “Hazardous Wastes” means dangerous wastes requiring special handling including, but is not limited to, explosives, pathological wastes, radioactive materials and chemicals.

18. “Industrial Solid Waste” means all solid wastes which result from industrial processes and manufacturing operations such as factories, processing plants, repair and cleaning establishments, refineries and rendering plants.

19. “Institutional Solid Waste” means solid waste generated by hospitals, nursing homes, schools, prisons, reformatories, or other buildings housing an organization having social, educational, or religious purpose.

20. “Jurisdictional Health Department” means Grant County Health District.

21. “Landfill” means the solid waste disposal process using land for the final disposal site.

22. “Noncombustible Rubbish” means material that is unburnable at ordinary incinerator temperatures (one thousand three hundred to two thousand degrees Fahrenheit). For the most part, it is the inorganic component of refuse, such as tin cans, heavy metal, mineral matter, glass, crockery, dust, metal furniture, ashes, and the like.

23. “Offal” means intestine and discarded parts from the slaughter of animals.

24. “On-Site Disposal” includes all means of disposal or, more usually, volume reduction, of refuse on premises before collection. Examples are garbage grinding, burning or incineration, burial, compaction or slurring at homes and commercial establishments.

25. “Open Burning” means the burning of solid wastes in an open area or burning of solid wastes in a type of chamber or vessel which is not approved in regulations.

26. “Open Dumping” means the depositing of solid wastes into a body or stream of water, or onto the surface of the ground without compacting the wastes and covering with suitable material to a suitable depth that would prevent vector nuisance and pollution problems.

27. “Pathogen” means any infective agent capable of producing disease; it may be a virus, rickettsia, bacteria, protozoan, etc.

28. “Person” means an individual, firm, association, copartnership, political subdivision, government agency, municipality, industry, public or private corporation, or any other entity whatsoever.

29. “Pollution” means the presence in the environment or portion of the environment of contaminating substances, materials, forms of animals or plant life in sufficient quantities and of such characteristics and duration, as is or is likely to be, injurious to humans, to other plant or animal life, or property, or which unreasonably interferes with enjoyment of life and property.

30. “Processing of Waste” means the operation of solid waste which converts a waste into something useful, leaving the term “handling” to describe what is done to prepare it for disposal.

31. “Pull-on Container” means a detachable container system in which a large container (around twenty to fifty cubic yards) is pulled onto service vehicle mechanically and carried to disposal site for emptying.

32. “Putrescible” means capable of being decomposed by micro-organisms with sufficient rapidity as to cause nuisances from odors, gases, etc. Kitchen wastes, offal, and dead animals are examples of putrescible components of solid waste.

33. “Refuse” means “Solid Waste” as defined in subsection 41 of this section.

34. “Refuse Fill” means “Landfill” as defined in subsection 21 of this section.

35. “Rendering” means a process of salvaging fats and oils, animal feed and other products from animal waste by cooking. Dead animals, fish and wastes from slaughter houses and butcher shops are commonly used.

36. “Rubbish” means all discarded nonputrescible solid waste except ashes, including paper, cardboard, tin cans, wood, glass, bedding, yard clippings, etc.

37. “Salvage” means reclaimable solid waste such as paper, metal, bottles, or other objects saved for the purpose of sale or other use not prohibited by law, rule, or regulation.

38. “Sanitary Landfill” means a method of disposing of refuse on land without creating nuisances or hazards to public health or safety, by utilizing the principles of engineering to confine the refuse to the smallest practical area, to reduce it to the smallest practical volume, and to cover it with a layer of earth at the conclusion of each day’s operation or at such more frequent intervals as may be necessary.

39. “Scavenging” means the uncontrolled picking of materials.

40. “Solid Waste” means all putrescible and nonputrescible solid and semisolid wastes, including garbage, rubbish, ashes, industrial wastes, demolition and construction wastes abandoned vehicles or parts thereof, discarded home and industrial appliances, manure, vegetable or animal solid and semisolid wastes and other discarded material. The point at which any of the above becomes solid waste and is the responsibility of the City garbage contractor shall be determined by the Utility Service Supervisor of the City.

41. “Solid Waste Disposal” means final disposition of solid waste by acceptable means.

42. “Solid Waste Handling” means the storage, collection, transportation, treatment, utilization, processing, and final disposal of solid wastes.

43. “Special Wastes” means wastes difficult or unusual in the characteristics of quantities or composition to handle.

44. “Street Refuse” means material picked up by manual and mechanical sweeping of streets and sidewalks, litter from public litter receptacles, and dirt removed from catch basins.

45. “Surface Water” means a body of water whose top surface is exposed to the atmosphere including a flowing body as well as a pond or lake.

46. “Swill” means the semiliquid animal or vegetable waste of kitchens, market or stores.

47. “Transfer Station” means a loading site where solid waste is transferred from one vehicle to another for transfer to a final disposal site.

48. “Trash” means “Rubbish”, as defined in subsection 36 of this section.

49. “Unsanitary Condition” means any situation which negatively effects the health and general welfare of humans or is of such a character so as to be likely to be injurious to humans, plant or animal life, or property, or which unreasonably interferes with the enjoyment of life or property.

50. “Utility Service Supervisor” means the City official or employee of the City delegated and authorized to administer this chapter.

51. “Vacant” means not lived in or occupied.

52. “Vector” (of disease) means a living insect or other arthropod, or animal (not human), which transmits infectious diseases from one person or animal to another.