§ 50.01. Definitions.

For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.

Ashes means refuse resulting from the burning of wood, coal, coke, and other combustible material.

Building debris means rubbish from light construction, remodeling, and repair operations on houses performed by the homeowner, including, but not limited to, excavated earth, stones, brick, plaster, lumber, and waste parts occasioned by installations and replacements.

Bulk items means the remains of, or pieces and parts of, large items of solid waste such as furniture, beds, frames, trees, stumps, or other tree remnants greater than six inches in diameter and other oversized or general solid waste, both combustible and noncombustible, that due to its large size precludes or complicates its handling by normal solid waste collections, processing, or disposal methods.

Business building means any public or private structure adapted for the following uses: transaction of business, rendering of professional services, amusement, the display or sale or storage of goods, wares, merchandise, articles or equipment, hotels, apartment housing, rooming houses, office buildings, public buildings, stores, theaters, markets, restaurants, abattoirs, warehouses, sheds, barns, and other structures on premises used for or adapted to business purposes.

Collection means the act of removing solid waste, residential household garbage or recyclable material and bulk items from a point of generation to a central storage point adjacent to nearest public roadway, then to a disposal site.

Commercial establishment . See Business building .

Contractor means company hired to collect or manage solid waste and recycling produced in the Town.

Curbside means location adjacent to but no more than three feet from the edge of a public roadway, providing access to a residence or business building.

Customer means an occupant or owner of a residential, commercial, or industrial unit who generates solid waste.

Exceptional volume means the amount of bagged waste or recycling that exceeds the limits of the container used for the collection, or as determined by the Public Works Director.

Hazardous waste means any commercial or residential garbage, trash, rubbish, or other solid waste identified or listed as "hazardous waste" by the administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) pursuant to the federal Solid Waste Disposal Act 42 USC 6901 et seq., as amended. These include the following: poison, acids, caustics, chemicals, infected materials, offal, fecal matter, explosives, radioactive materials, and other volatile or potentially dangerous substances.

Industrial waste means sawdust, shavings, packing material, cartons, boxes, metal, glass, paper, wood, textiles, chemicals, plastic, or other waste materials from processing plants, factories, or manufacturing operations.

Infectious waste means commercial or residential garbage, trash, rubbish, or other waste containing pathogens or biologically active material that because of its type, concentration, and quantity is capable of transmitting disease to persons exposed to the waste, including human and animal tissue, bandages, and other material used in health care that became contaminated by pathogenic material.

Solid waste means any solid waste, animal, or plant material from the preparation, consumption and/or storage of food, and other waste that is generated by the normal day-to-day operation of a residence, business, industrial, governmental, or institutional establishment that can be disposed of in a sanitary landfill.

Oil means new or used oil that has been refined from crude oil or synthetic oil and, as a result of use, storage, or handling has become unsuitable for its original purpose due to the presence of impurities and loss of original properties but may be suitable for further use and is economically recyclable.

Point of collection means specified location where municipal solid waste, yard debris, bulk items, and construction debris, and recyclables are to be collected.

Recyclable waste means newspaper, copy/printer paper, cereal boxes, shoe boxes, magazines, junk mail, paperback telephone books, green/brown/clear glass, broken-down corrugated cardboard boxes, gable-top cartons such as milk cartons, aluminum beverage cans, aluminum/steel/tin cans, aluminum foil, and plastics No. 1-2.

Recycling container means a plastic container furnished by the Town for collection of specified recyclable materials.

Regular collection schedule means schedule of dates and or days that solid waste, recycle, yard debris and bulk items will be collected.

Routine collection practices means a standard means of collecting municipal solid waste, yard debris, bulk items, and recyclables.

Town means Town of Beaufort.

Unauthorized accumulation of garbage means the storage or accumulation of garbage on any premise in the Town that creates the following: unsanitary conditions; fire hazards; offensive or obnoxious odors; and breeding or harboring place for insects, snakes, varmints, vermin, or other pests; or a situation that adversely affects the health, safety, and welfare hazards the public as established by the appropriate and applicable standards of the Town.

Volume/weight limits means maximum limit of 75 pounds per 95-gallon solid waste and recycling containers, 50 pounds for yard waste containers and tree limbs, and five cubic yards for bulk items.

Waterfront business district means an area that includes businesses located along Front Street between Moore and Queen Streets; Turner Street between Front and Ann streets; Middle Lane; Queen Street between Front and Ann streets; and the boat-based businesses on Front Street between Queen and Pollock streets.

Yard debris means solid waste consisting solely of vegetative matter resulting from landscaping maintenance by the homeowner, which includes, but is not limited to, tree limbs grass clippings, leaves, brush, etc.

( Res. of 4-17-2017(2) )

Editor's note

Res. of 4-17-2017(2) repealed the former section and enacted a new section as set out herein. The former section pertained to similar subject matter and derived from 1992 Code, § 15-1; Ord. passed 6-9-1980; Am. Res. passed 5-10-2010.