§ 36-75. Definitions.

As used in this article, the following terms shall be construed as indicated in this section:

Combustible waste means all waste substances capable of incineration or burning, but excluding explosive or highly flammable material.

Garbage means all normal and usual household and institutional waste products, usually a mixture of putrescent, nonputrescent, combustible and incombustible materials, such as organic wastes from foods preparation and consumption, wrapping and packaging materials, metal, glass, and plastic containers and other items. This definition also applies to similar waste products from commercial establishments such as restaurants, cafeterias, schools and hospitals.

Noncombustible waste means all other waste substance not capable of incineration or burning, including ashes, glass, metal, earthenware and the like.

Permit. A permit allows only parish garbage, unless permission is granted by the parish council.

Person means any individual, partnership, copartnership, firm, company, public or private corporation, association, joint stock company, trust, estate or any other legal representative, agent or assigns.

Refuse means all of the solid wastes of the parish.

Sanitary landfill means a controlled area of land with a 1,000-foot greenbelt buffer zone upon which nonhazardous solid waste is deposited in such a manner that protects the environment with non-on-site burning of wastes, and so located, contoured and drained that it will not constitute a source of water pollution.

Transfer/pickup stations means a collection point for the temporary (24 hours maximum) storage of all solid wastes and sewerage waste until the waste can be transferred to and disposed of in a permitted landfill site or by other means approved of by the department of environmental quality.

(Code 1979, § 18.5-41; Ord. of 12-20-1988, § 1; Ord. of 8-7-1990, § 1)