Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 11 - Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality › Part 4 - Nonhazardous Solid Waste Management Regulations › Chapter 4 - Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality Waste Tire Management Regulations › Rule 11-4-4.2 - Definitions

Current through June 25, 2024
A. "Commission" means the Mississippi
				Commission on Environmental Quality.
B. "Department" means the Mississippi
				Department of Environmental Quality.
C. "Mobile waste tire processing equipment"
				means a mobile waste tire processing operation which does not operate at any
				one fixed facility for more than ninety (90) days annually.
D. "Motor vehicle" means an automobile,
				motorcycle, trailer, semi-trailer, truck tractor and semi-trailer combination,
				farm equipment or any other vehicle operated on the roads of the 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 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.
E. "Reusable
				tire" means a whole tire which has been specifically separated from waste tires
				for and which is suitable for processing or resale for its original intended
				purpose. A used tire which appears to be suitable for its original intended
				purpose, but which has not been separated from waste tires for such purposes
				shall be considered to be a waste tire.
F. "Tire" means a continuous solid or
				pneumatic rubber covering encircling the wheel of a motor vehicle.
G. "Waste tire" means a whole tire that is no
				longer suitable for its original intended purpose because of wear, damage, or
				defect.
H. "Waste tire collection
				site" means a site used for the storage of 100 or more waste tires.
I. "Waste tire disposal site" means a site
				where tires are buried or incinerated in a manner that does not facilitate
				recycling, resource recovery, or reuse of the waste tires or its
				byproducts.
J. "Waste tire
				generator" means any person who produces or stores waste tires on property
				owned or leased by that person.
K.
				"Waste tire hauler" means any person engaged in the collection and/or
				transportation of 50 or more waste tires for the purpose of storage,
				processing, or disposal or any person transporting waste tires for
				compensation.
L. "Waste tire
				processing facility" means a site where tires are reduced in volume by
				shredding, cutting, chopping, 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.
M. "Waste tire transporter" means any person
				engaged in the transportation of waste tires.
Miss. Code Ann.
				  §§
										17-17-1,
				  et seq., 17-17-201, et seq., 17-17-401 et seq., 49-2-9(1)(b), 49-17-17(i),
				  49-17-1, et seq., and 49-2-1, et seq.