§ 24-1. Definitions.

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

Account. A location, business, corporation, multi-unit residential building or single-family home that receives sanitation services or recycling services or both, from the city or a licensed private collector.

Bulk container. A container with a capacity of up to eight (8) cubic yards, capable of being serviced by a front-end load collection vehicle and used for bulk trash collection, commercial trash, or garbage.

Bulk trash is defined as follows:

(1)

Household goods. Appliances, furniture, mattresses, box springs, toys, carpet, draperies, and other miscellaneous materials as are normally found in a residential household.

(2)

Horticultural material. Trimmings from bushes, shrubs, and trees which do not exceed six (6) inches in diameter at the base or six (6) feet in length.

(3)

Building materials. Wooden fence sections six (6) feet or less in height and length, wooden doors, sinks, commodes, small wood scraps, and other small building or repair materials.

(4)

Miscellaneous trash. Bulk trash not previously defined that is of a household, noncommercial and nonhazardous nature.

(5)

Construction and demolition debris. Refuse generated from the construction, destruction, demolition, renovation, repair or alteration of any buildings or structures or any other refuse materials which normally result from land clearing or land development operations.

Cans. Aluminum, steel and bimetal beverage and food cans only.

Certified recovered materials dealer. A dealer certified under F.S. § 403.7046 as existing or as may be amended from time to time.

City. The City of Fort Lauderdale.

City manager. The manager of the City of Fort Lauderdale or a duly authorized designee.

Commercial account. Any account generating commercial trash not defined as residential.

Commercial trash. Every waste accumulation of dust, paper, paper cartons, cardboard, cardboard cartons, excelsior, rags or other accumulations, other than garbage, or household trash which are usually attendant to the operation of stores, offices and similar businesses.

Container. Any city issued or licensed collector issued receptacle, cart or bin, used to hold or transport solid waste.

Corrugated cardboard. Paper that consists of a wavy surface with alternating ridges and grooves and which is commonly used to form cartons.

Director. The director of the public works department or a duly authorized designee.

Dispose. To discharge, deposit, dump or place any solid waste.

Garbage. Every waste accumulation of animal or vegetable matter which attends the preparation, use, cooking, processing, handling or storage of meats, fish, fowl, fruits, vegetables or other matter which is subject to decomposition, decay, putrefaction or the generation of noxious or offensive gases or odors or which, during or after decay, may serve as breeding or feeding material for flies, insects or animals.

Glass containers. Whole glass jars and bottles clear, brown and green in color only, made of silica, sand, soda ash, or limestone, and used for the packaging and bottling of various materials. This does not include plastics or glass products such as window glass, blue glass, flat glass, mirrors, plate glass, light bulbs, ceramics or pieces of broken glass.

Good working condition. Fully operable for the use for which it was intended and free from holes, cracks, defects or other signs of deterioration or malfunction.

Hazardous waste. Any flammable, toxic, corrosive, and reactive waste or product containing such waste, including, but not limited to, oil and water based paints, paint thinners and strippers, used automotive oil or fluids, gasoline, solvents, pesticides, insecticides, fertilizers, pool chemicals, spot removers, nail polish and remover, oven and drain cleaners, furniture and metal polish, mercury, batteries, household thermostats with mercury switches, mercury thermometers, tires, fluorescent lamps, any mercury containing devices, and any other waste as defined by state statute.

License for essential municipal services. A license issued by the city for a nonexclusive franchise to a business or corporation which allows the business or corporation to provide solid waste collection services to locations within the corporate limits of the city.

Licensed private collector. Any business or corporation holding a current and valid license for essential municipal services issued by the city.

Living unit. Any place of abode which is suitable for permanent or transient family or individual residential use. Each such living unit shall be considered as single and separate for the purposes of this chapter.

Multifamily residences. All places of abode, other than single-family residences.

Newspaper. Newsprint grade paper, made chiefly from wood pulp, which is printed and distributed. This does not include magazines, slick paper and telephone books.

Person. Any natural person, persons or heirs, executors, administrators or assigns and may include a firm, partnership, or corporation, it or their successors or assigns, or the agent of any of the aforesaid.

Plastics. Beverage or food bottles, jars and containers made of either PET (polyethylene terephthalate) or HDPE (high density polyethylene), and v (vinyl) only.

Processable waste. Waste that is acceptable at the Broward County incinerators.

Recovered materials. Metal, paper, glass, plastic, textile or rubber materials that have known recycling potential, can be feasibly recycled, and have been diverted and source separated or have been removed from the solid waste stream for sale, use or reuse as raw materials, whether or not the materials require subsequent processing or separation from each other. This shall not include solid waste or materials destined for any use that constitutes disposal.

Recyclables. Those materials which are capable of being recycled and which would otherwise be processed or be disposed of as solid waste.

Recycling. Any process by which solid waste, or materials which would otherwise become solid waste, are collected, separated, or processed and reused or returned to use in the form of raw materials or products.

Residential. All single-family residences and multifamily residences.

Roadside. Within two (2) feet of the paved right-of-way.

Single-family residence. Any single-family dwelling and is interchangeable with the word "household." Where both a single-family residence and a guest house or hotel room occupy the same premises, each of them shall constitute a separate living unit and shall not be considered a single residence.

Solid waste. Useless, unwanted or discarded solid material with insufficient liquid content to be free flowing, including, but not limited to, any and all bulk trash, commercial trash, rubbish, building materials, garbage, household trash, commercial and industrial waste, litter, cigars and cigarettes and parts thereof, whether combusted or intact, refuse, scrap materials, white goods, boat parts, car parts, junk, trailer parts, furniture, tree trimmings, yardwaste, construction debris, demolition debris or any other similar solid material or waste that is unwanted or discarded or surrendered for collection disposal, but shall not include sludge from air or water pollution control facilities, septic tank sludge or agricultural or unacceptable waste.

Source separated. Recovered materials which are separated from solid waste where the recovered materials and solid waste are generated. The term does not require that various types of recovered materials be separated from each other and recognizes de minimis solid waste, in accordance with industry standards and practices, may be included in the recovered materials.

Unacceptable waste. That portion of solid waste which is not defined as acceptable waste and includes but is not limited to sewage and its derivatives, special nuclear or by-product materials within the meaning of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, hazardous waste, medical waste and dead animals.

White goods. Includes inoperative and discarded refrigerators, washers, dryers, dishwashers, ranges, water heaters, freezers, and other similar domestic and commercial large appliances.

Yardwaste. Plant material, grass cuttings, tree trimmings, seeds, fruit, leaves or vegetative matter from grass, shrubs, bushes, hedges, palms, trees, or mulch created as a result of the care and maintenance of plants or trees which is conducive to disposal in a yardwaste cart and is free of dirt, rocks and other solid waste or foreign materials.

(Code 1953, § 20-1; Ord. No. C-68-35, § 1, 7-2-68; Ord. No. C-69-5, § 1, 1-21-69; Ord. No. C-74-126, § 1, 11-19-74; Ord. No. C-82-41, § 1, 5-18-82; Ord. No. C-89-137, § 1, 12-5-89; Ord. No. C-90-53, § 1, 9-5-90; Ord. No. C-91-47, § 1, 9-4-91; Ord. No. C-95-11, § 1, 3-21-95; Ord. No. C-99-2, § 1, 1-20-99; Ord. No. C-07-57, § 1, 7-10-07 ; Ord. No. C-17-28 , § 114, 9-13-17)