§ 34-331. 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:

Elements of nature means the various forms of natural precipitation such as rain, snow, sleet, hail, condensation, etc.

Generator means a person or business that receives, collects or stores tires for the purpose of selling, retreading, splitting, quartering, shredding or grinding for disposal, resource recovery or recycling.

Scrap tire means a tire that has been worn or damaged beyond its useful life for its original intended purpose.

Structure means a solid, complete enclosure that prohibits the introduction and collection of the elements of nature on or inside the enclosure or the contents within.

Tire means any tire, whether new or used, whether serviceable or unserviceable, made wholly or partially of rubber, which was manufactured for use on any vehicle propelled by a motor, including vehicles pushed or pulled by a vehicle propelled by a motor, regardless of whether such vehicle is intended for use on a public roadway, provided that such tire is not mounted upon a wheel or rim and in service upon or carried as a component spare part of a vehicle.

Tire transporter means a person or business registered and permitted by the state health department to pick up and deliver new, used and scrap tires or shredded tire pieces from and to dealers of tires or permitted tire recyclers, storage sites, disposal sites, waste tire facilities or other processing facilities.

Used tire means a tire that has been used on a vehicle propelled by a motor or pushed or pulled by a vehicle propelled by a motor that has been removed from the original vehicle it was used on but still has some serviceable life.

Vector means any agent that can transmit disease to or between human beings, such as mosquitos and rodents.

Waste tire facility means an approved facility at which used and scrap tires are collected and deposited and shredded to facilitate the future extraction of useful materials for recycling, reuse or energy recovery.

Waste tire processor means a waste tire facility or a mobile tire shredder that splits, shreds, quarters tires and delivers to an end user the split, shredded or quartered tires for eventual recycling, reuse or energy recovery at either a waste tire storage facility or a waste tire facility.

Waste tire storage facility means an approved facility at which used and scrap tires are collected and stored, before being the future removal of useful materials for recycling, reuse or energy recovery.

(Code 1967, § 15-28; Ord. No. 6151, § 1, 2-13-92)

Cross reference

Definitions generally, § 1-2.