§ 51-0903 — Definitions

§ 51-0903. Definitions.\n As used in this title, the following terms shall mean and include:\n 1. "Solid Waste." All materials or substances discarded or rejected as\nbeing spent, useless, worthless or in excess to the owners at the time\nof such discard or rejection, including but not limited to garbage,\nrefuse, industrial and commercial waste, sludges from air or water\npollution control facilities or water supply treatment facilities,\nrubbish, ashes, contained gaseous materials, incinerator residue,\ndemolition and construction debris and offal but not including sewage\nand other highly diluted water carried materials or substances and those\nin gaseous form.\n 2. "Solid Waste Recovery and Management Project." Resource recovery\nequipment, source separation equipment, disposal equipment or any\ncombination thereof required by a solid waste recovery and management\nsystem.\n 3. "Solid Waste Recovery and Management System." A municipal program\nto provide environmentally sound recovery or disposal of collected solid\nwaste through facilities planned, designed, assembled and constructed to\nassure environmental protection and to maximize the potential for\nresource recovery.\n 4. "Resource Recovery Equipment." Structures, machinery, or devices,\nsingly or in combination, designed, constructed and required to\nseparate, process, modify, convert, treat, or prepare collected solid\nwaste so that component materials or substances or recoverable resources\nmay be used as a raw material or for their productive purposes.\n 5. "Disposal Equipment." Structures, machinery or devices at a\ndisposal site necessary to efficient and environmentally-sound land\ndisposal of solid wastes, including but not limited to machinery or\ndevices designed to move earth during burial of wastes or to increase\nthe density of wastes buried or to be buried. "Disposal Equipment" shall\nalso mean facilities, except vehicles, in which collected solid waste is\ntemporarily stored and concentrated prior to transport to a disposal\nsite.\n 6. "Municipality." A city, county, town, village, public benefit\ncorporation having power granted otherwise than under this article to\nconstruct, operate and maintain solid waste management projects, or an\nimprovement district within a city, county, town or village, or any\ncombination thereof.\n 7. "Cost." The cost of resource recovery equipment, source separation\nequipment or disposal equipment including interest prior to and during\nconstruction, engineering and architectural surveys, plans and\nspecifications, and consultants and legal services and other direct\nexpenses incident to a solid waste management project, exclusive of land\nacquisition, and expenses incident thereto, less any federal assistance\nreceived or to be received.\n 8. "Source separation equipment" shall mean:\n (a) Add-ons or trailers designed to modify collection vehicles to\nallow sorting and separation of collected wastes held for the purpose of\nrecycling or collection vehicles whose function and design are\nexclusively for such purpose;\n (b) Containers for the source separation and temporary storage of\nrecyclable wastes by residents or business prior to collection;\n (c) Bins, sheds or other facilities for the temporary storage of\nmaterials prior to transport for the purposes of recycling.\n