Mississippi Code 1972 (2023) › Title 17 - LOCAL GOVERNMENT; PROVISIONS COMMON TO COUNTIES AND MUNICIPALITIES (§§ 17-1-1 — 17-29-9) › Chapter 17 - SOLID WASTES DISPOSAL (§§ 17-17-1 — 17-17-507) › DISPOSAL OF WASTE TIRES AND LEAD ACID BATTERIES; RIGHT-WAY-TO-THROW-AWAY PROGRAM (§§ 17-17-401 — 17-17-445) › Section 17-17-403 - Definitions

The following words and phrases shall have the meanings ascribed in this section unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
(a)
"Commission" means the Commission on Environmental Quality.
(b)
"Collection contractor" means a person approved by the department and used by a county, municipality or multicounty agency to operate a household hazardous waste collection and management program.
(c)
"Department" means the Department of Environmental Quality.
(d)
"Household hazardous waste" means any waste that would be considered hazardous under the Solid Wastes Disposal Law of 1974, Section
17-17-1
et seq., Mississippi Code of 1972, or any rules and regulations promulgated thereto, but for the fact that it is produced in quantities smaller than those regulated under that law or regulations and is generated by persons not otherwise covered by that law or regulations.
(e)
"Motor vehicle" means an automobile, motorcycle, truck, trailer, semitrailer, truck tractor and semitrailer combination, farm equipment or any other vehicle operated on the roads of this state, used to transport persons or property, and propelled by power other than muscular power, but does not include traction engines, road rollers, earth movers, graders, loaders and other similar construction equipment requiring oversized tires, any vehicles which run only upon a track, bicycles, electric bicycles, personal delivery devices or mopeds. For purposes of this article, "farm equipment" means any vehicle which uses tires having the following designations: I-1, I-2, I-3, R-1, R-2, R-3, F-1, F-2 and Farm Highway Service.
(f)
"Small business" means any commercial establishment not regulated under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (Public Law 94-580, 42 USCS 6901 et seq.), as amended or regulations promulgated thereto.
(g)
"Small quantity waste tire generator" means any private individual generating twenty-five (25) or fewer waste tires annually, or a tire retail outlet, automotive mechanic shop or other commercial or governmental entity that generates ten (10) or fewer waste tires per week.
(h)
"Tire" means a continuous solid or pneumatic rubber covering encircling the wheel of a motor vehicle.
(i)
"Waste tire" means a whole tire that is no longer suitable for its original intended purpose because of wear, damage or defect.
(j)
"Waste tire hauler" means any person engaged in the collection and/or transportation of fifty (50) or more waste tires for the purpose of storage, processing or disposal or any person transporting waste tires for compensation.
(k)
"Waste tire processing facility" means a site where tires are reduced in volume by shredding, cutting, chipping or otherwise altered to facilitate recycling, resource recovery or disposal. The term includes mobile waste tire processing equipment. Commercial enterprises processing waste tires shall not be considered solid waste management facilities.
(l)
"Waste tire collection site" means a site used for the storage of one hundred (100) or more waste tires.
Laws, 1991, ch. 531, § 2; Laws, 1993, ch. 500, § 1; Laws, 1997, ch. 544, § 1; Laws, 1998, ch. 349, § 1, eff. 7/1/1998.
Amended by Laws, 2022, ch. 439, SB 2508,§ 2, eff. 7/1/2022.
Amended by Laws, 2021, ch. 355, HB 1195,§ 2, eff. 7/1/2021.