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Amending the title and text of Chapter 9.20 as follows:
<br />Chapter 9.20 SOLID WASTE
<br />9.20.010 Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following words shall have the meanings
<br />given in this section:
<br />"Commercial unit" means any occupied premises specifically utilized for the purpose of
<br />engaging in commercial activity as defined in Chapter 18.44 of this code.
<br />"Industrial unit" means any occupied premises specifically utilized for the purpose of engaging
<br />in industrial activity as defined in Chapter 18.48 of this code.
<br />"Organic Waste" means Solid Waste containing material originated from living organisms and
<br />their metabolic waste products, including but not limited to food, green material, landscape and
<br />pruning waste, organic textiles and carpets, lumber, wood, paper products, printing and writing
<br />paper, manure, biosolids, digestate, and sludges or as otherwise defined in 14 Cal. Code of
<br />Regulations (CCR) Section 18982(a)(46), as amended. Biosolids and digestate are as defined
<br />by 14 CCR Section 18982(a), as amended.
<br />"Recyclable materials" or "Recyclables" means newspaper, cardboard, mixed color paper,
<br />white paper, junk mail, magazines, telephone books, paper bags, cereal and food boxes, egg
<br />cartons, plastic bottles and containers labeled #1-7, plastic milk containers, detergent
<br />containers, clear, brown and green food and beverage container glass, cans of aluminum, steel,
<br />tin, food cans, empty aerosol cans, pipe tins which have been separated from Solid Waste and
<br />Organic Materials prior to Collection. "Recyclable materials" shall also include those materials
<br />described in the collection contract entered into pursuant to Section 9.20.100.
<br />"Recycle" or "recycling" means the process of collecting, sorting, cleansing, treating, and
<br />reconstituting materials that would otherwise become solid waste, and returning them to the
<br />economic mainstream in the form of raw material for new, reused, or reconstituted products
<br />which meet the quality standards necessary to be used in the marketplace.
<br />"Residential unit" means any occupied premises having bathroom or toilet, and kitchen
<br />plumbing facilities, suitable for residential occupancy by a number of persons living together as
<br />a single family, including single-family dwellings, and each group of occupied rooms constituting
<br />living quarters for a single family in any duplex, triplex, apartment, court or other multiple
<br />dwelling structure, by excluding any living or sleeping quarters in hotels, apartments, rooming
<br />houses, motels or auto courts where kitchen facilities are not provided. For the purposes of this
<br />chapter, a premises with five (5) or more residential units is multi -family residential.
<br />"Solid waste" means all putrescible and non-putrescible solid, semisolid, and liquid wastes,
<br />including garbage, trash, refuse, paper, rubbish, ashes, industrial wastes, demolition and
<br />construction wastes, abandoned vehicles and parts thereof, discarded home and industrial
<br />appliances, dewatered, treated, or chemically fixed sewage sludge which is not hazardous
<br />waste, manure, vegetable or animal solid and semisolid wastes, and other discarded solid and
<br />semisolid wastes.
<br />"Solid waste" does not include any of the following wastes:
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