§ 13.20.030. Definitions.

Except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning, the definitions appearing in ORS 459.005 and regulations promulgated thereunder are applicable to this chapter. The singular includes the plural and vice versa. As used in this chapter, the following words shall be defined as follows:

"City" means the city of Sheridan.

"Compensation" means and includes: (1) any type of consideration paid for service including, but not limited to, rent, the proceeds from resource recovery, any direct or indirect provision for the payment of money, goods, services or benefits by tenants, lessees, occupants or similarly situated persons; (2) the exchange of service between persons; and (3) the flow of consideration from a person owning, possessing or generating solid waste to another person who provides services or from a person providing services to another person owning, possessing or generating solid waste.

"Franchisee" means the person to whom this franchise is granted by the city council pursuant to this chapter.

"Person" means an individual, partnership, association, corporation, trust, estate or other private legal entity.

"Recyclable materials" means any material or group of materials that can be collected and sold for recycling at a net cost equal to or less than the cost of collection and disposal of the same material.

"Resource recovery" means the process of obtaining useful material or energy resources from solid waste, including energy recovery, material recovery, recycling and reuse of solid waste.

"Service" means the collection, transportation or disposal of or the resource recovery from solid waste.

"Solid waste" means all putrescible and nonputrescible wastes, including but not limited to garbage, rubbish, refuse, ashes, fruit refuse, waste paper, cardboard, grass clippings, compost, tires, equipment and furniture; sewage sludge, septic tank and cesspool pumpings or other sludge; commercial, industrial, demolition and construction wastes; discarded or abandoned vehicles or parts thereof; discarded home or industrial appliances; manure, vegetable or animal solid and semi-solid wastes, dead animals, infectious and other wastes; but the term does not include:

1.

Hazardous waste as defined in ORS 466.005;

2.

Materials used for fertilizer or for other productive purposes or which are salvageable as such when the materials are used on land in agricultural operations and the growing or harvesting of crops and the raising of fowls or animals;

3.

Beverage containers, subject to reuse or refund provisions, contained in ORS 459A.700 to 459A.740.

"Solid waste management" means the prevention or reduction of solid waste; management of the storage, collection, transportation, treatment, utilization, processing and final disposal of solid waste; or resource recovery from solid waste; and facilities necessary or convenient to such activities.

"Special waste" means waste resulting from an industrial and/or manufacturing process and which requires special handling or extraordinary management at the disposal facility, including, without limitation, asbestos, petroleum contaminated soil, sludge, containerized or bulk tanker waste, waste from pollution control processes, waste containing free liquids and other waste that may be covered by a special waste handling plan for the disposal facility as approved by DEQ in accordance with the disposal site permit.

"Waste" means useless or discarded materials.

(Ord. 03-3 § 1, 2002; Ord. 00-1 § 1(ii), 2000; Ord. 91-4 § 3, 1991)