§ 18-26. Definitions.

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning. Additional words, terms, or phrases used in this article may be defined in accordance with the definitions as set in the Louisiana Environmental Regulatory Code, Title 33, Part VII, § 115.

Agricultural waste means nonhazardous waste resulting from the production and processing of agricultural products, including manures, pruning, and crop residues. This term does not include solid wastes defined as industrial solid waste in this section.

Charge customer means any person or business that has been approved to have his disposal fees charged and billed by the parish monthly. All possible charge customers must be approved by the parish prior to becoming a charge customer.

Collect means to accumulate solid waste generated by more than one household or commercial establishment, or by storage or processing facility.

Collection means the act of removing solid waste from the storage point at the source of generation.

Collection service means a public or private operation engaged in the collection and transportation of solid waste materials.

Commercial and industrial unit means all premises, locations or entities, public or private, requiring refuse collections within the parish, not a residential unit. This is to include all schools.

Commercial solid waste all types of solid waste generated by stores, offices, restaurants, warehouses, and other manufacturing activities, excluding residential and industrial solid wastes.

Construction/demolition debris means nonhazardous waste generally considered not water-soluble, including but not limited to metal, concrete, brick, asphalt, roofing materials (shingles, sheet rock, plaster), or lumber from a construction or demolition project, but excluding asbestos-contaminated waste, white goods, furniture, trash, or treated lumber. The admixture of construction and demolition debris with more than five percent by volume of paper associated with such debris or any other type of solid waste (excluding wood waste or yard waste) will cause it to be classified other than construction/demolition debris.

Department means the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality as created by R.S. § 30:2001 et seq.

Disposal means the discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking, or placing of any solid waste on or into any land or water so that such solid waste or any constituent thereof, may have the potential for entering the environment or being emitted into the air or discharged into any waters of Louisiana.

Garbage means solid waste that includes animal and vegetable matter from the handling, preparation, cooking, and serving of foods, but that does not include industrial solid waste.

Generator means any person whose act or process produces solid waste as defined in these regulations.

Hazardous waste means waste identified as hazardous in the current Louisiana Hazardous Waste Regulations (LAC 33: V) and/or by the federal government under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act and subsequent amendments.

Industrial solid waste means solid waste generated by a manufacturing, industrial, or mining process, or which is contaminated by solid waste generated by such a process. Such waste may include, but is not limited to, waste resulting from the following manufacturing processes: electric power generation; fertilizer/agricultural chemicals; food and related products; by-products; inorganic chemicals; iron and steel manufacturing; leather and leather products; nonferrous metals manufacturing/foundries; organic chemicals; plastics and resins manufacturing; pulp and paper industry; rubber and miscellaneous plastic products; stone, glass, clay and concrete products; textile manufacturing; and transportation equipment. This term does not include hazardous waste regulated under the Louisiana hazardous waste regulations or under federal law, or waste which is subject to regulation under the Office of Conservation's Statewide Order No. 29-B or by other agencies.

Multifamily refers to all residential dwelling units of more than one unit, considered to be condominiums, apartment houses, grouped housing or mobile home parks.

Parish means the Tangipahoa Parish Government.

Permit means a written authorization issued by the administrative authority to a person for the construction, installation, modification, operation, closure, or post-closure of a certain facility used or intended to be used to process or dispose of solid waste in accordance with the act, these regulations, and specified terms and conditions.

Producer means an occupant of a commercial and industrial unit or a residential unit who generates solid waste or a contractor or builder at a commercial and industrial unit or a residential unit.

Putrescible solid waste means susceptible to rapid decomposition by bacteria, fungi, or oxidation, creating noxious odors.

Residential solid waste means any solid waste (including garbage, trash, and sludges from residential septic tanks and wastewater treatment facilities) derived from households (including single and multiple residences, hotels and motels, bunkhouses, ranger stations, crew quarters, campgrounds, picnic grounds, and day-use recreation areas).

Residential unit means a dwelling within the parish occupied by a person or a group of persons as a residence or place of abode. A residential unit shall be deemed occupied when either water or domestic light and power services are being supplied thereto. A condominium dwelling, whether of single or multilevel construction or separate single-family dwelling units, including apartment units and mobile homes, shall be treated as a residential unit.

Solid waste means any garbage, refuse, or sludge from a wastewater-treatment plant, water-supply treatment plant or air pollution-control facility, and other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining and agricultural operations, and from community activities. Solid waste does not include solid or dissolved material in return flows; industrial discharges that are point sources subject to permits under R.S. § 30:2075; source, special nuclear, or by-product material defined by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (68 Stat. 923 et seq.), as amended; or hazardous waste subject to permits under R.S. § 30:2171 et seq.

Solid waste disposal facility means any facility permitted by the state department of environmental quality for the disposal or processing of solid or industrial waste.

Solid waste management system means the entire process of collection, transportation, storage, processing, and disposal of solid waste by any person engaged in such process as a business or by any municipality, authority, trust, parish or any combination thereof.

Unauthorized dump is defined as a solid waste disposal facility whose operation is not authorized by the parish and/or the department.

Wood waste is defined as yard trash and types of wastes typically generated by sawmills, plywood mills, and wood yards associated with the lumber and paper industry, such as wood residue, refuse, wood-fired boiler ash, and plywood or other bonded materials that contain only phenolic-based glues or other glues that are approved specifically by the state department of environmental quality. Treated or painted lumber is not considered wood waste under this definition.

Yard trash means vegetative matter resulting from landscaping, maintenance, or land clearing operations, including tree and shrubbery leaves and limbs, grass clippings and flowers.

(Ord. No. 06-60, 9-25-06)

Cross reference

Definitions and rules of construction generally, § 1-2.