Compilation of Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia › Department 511 - RULES OF GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH › Chapter 511-3 - ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH HAZARDS › Subject 511-3-4 - SOLID WASTE › Rule 511-3-4-.02 - Definitions

Current through Rules and Regulations filed through June 27, 2024
For the purpose of this Chapter, the following words and
				 phrases shall have the meaning as indicated:
(a) APPROVAL OR APPROVED shall mean
				acceptable or accepted by the Health Authority in accordance with applicable
				specifications stated herein or with additional criteria accepted by the
				authority.
(b) GARBAGE shall mean
				all household or domestic waste, including waste from the preparation and
				cooking of food, grease, vegetable, fruit and meat scraps, ashes, cans and
				bottles, paper, floor sweepings, cardboard, and other such material to be
				disposed of from residences, churches, schools, office buildings, business
				establishments and similar places.
(c) HAZARDOUS WASTE shall mean solid or
				liquid waste material resulting from the manufacture or use of pesticides and
				drugs (other than normal household use, pathological wastes, highly flammable
				or explosive wastes, caustic wastes, toxic wastes, sewage sludge, and other
				waste material that the Health Authority determines to be a likely hazard to
				the public health, safety or environment.
(d) HEALTH AUTHORITY means the local county
				health board.
(e) INCINERATION
				means the process of converting any combustible material into an inert
				noncombustible ash or residue by burning in a manner and in equipment approved
				by the appropriate regulatory authority.
(f) INDUSTRIAL REFUSE means waste material
				from industrial processes, manufacturing, canneries, slaughterhouses, packing
				plants, poultry processing plants and similar industries, and large quantities
				of condemned foods. Industrial refuse also includes waste material from the
				construction, remodeling and repair operations on houses, commercial buildings
				and other structures, such as: concrete, bricks, plaster, stone, earth, lumber,
				shavings and sawdust.
(g) NUISANCE
				means whatever is detrimental to human health or whatever renders or tends to
				render soil, air, water, food impure or unwholesome.
(h) PERSON means any individual, partnership,
				corporation or association including bodies political and corporate.
(i) PRIVATE CONTRACTOR means any person,
				other than a municipality, who collects, removes, salvages, scavenges and/or
				disposes of refuse from one (1) or more public or private premises, other than
				his or her own, whether or not under written contract, and whether or not for
				compensation.
(j) REFUSE means
				garbage, rubbish, and industrial refuse.
(k) REFUSE RECEPTACLE means a can,
				compartment, bin or other container used to keep, collect, or store refuse
				pending its removal for disposal.
(l) RUBBISH means tree branches, twigs, grass
				and shrub clippings, weeds, leaves, street sweepings, stumps, and other similar
				materials.
(m) SOLID WASTE means
				putrescible and nonputrescible wastes, except water-carried body waste, and
				shall include garbage, rubbish, ashes, street refuse, dead animals, sewage
				sludges, animal manures, industrial wastes, (waste materials generated in
				industrial operations), residue from incineration, food processing wastes,
				demolition wastes, abandoned automobiles, dredging wastes, construction wastes,
				and other waste material in a solid or semi-solid state not otherwise defined
				in these regulations.
(n) SPECIAL
				EVENT means any activity attracting more than fifty (50) persons that is
				sponsored, organized, promoted, managed or financed by any person, group,
				partnership, organization, corporation, business or governmental entity where
				individuals congregate to participate in or observe an activity in outdoor or
				portable enclosed or semi-enclosed structures for more than two (2) consecutive
				hours.
O.C.G.A. Secs.
				  31-2A-6,  31-12-8.