§ 27-436. Definitions.

When used in this article, the following words, phrases and terms shall have the indicated meanings:

Biomedical waste means any solid or liquid waste which may present a threat of infection to humans. Examples include non-liquid tissue and body parts from humans and other primates; laboratory and veterinary waste which may contain human disease-causing agents; discarded sharps; and blood, blood products and body fluids from humans and other primates. The following are also included:

(a)

Used, absorbent materials saturated with blood, body fluids, or excretions or secretions contaminated with blood and absorbent materials saturated with blood or blood products that have dried. Absorbent material includes items such as bandages, gauzes, and sponges.

(b)

Non-absorbent disposable devices that have been contaminated with blood, body fluids or blood contaminated secretions or excretions and have not been sterilized or disinfected by an approved method.

(c)

Other contaminated solid waste materials which represent a significant risk of infection because they are generated in medical facilities which care for persons suffering from diseases requiring Strict Isolation Criteria and used by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control, CDC Guideline for Isolation Precautions in Hospitals, July/August 1983.

Discarded hazardous material means any hazardous material which has served its original intended purpose and has been or is in the process of being rejected, disposed of or recycled, or is being stored or accumulated in order to be eventually rejected, disposed of or recycled. Such material may include, but is not limited to, hazardous waste, used oil, used oil filters, waste radiator fluid, industrial wastewater, petroleum contaminated media and water, contaminated soils, waste fuel, leachate, or waste photographic fixer.

Hazardous waste means any substance defined or identified as a hazardous waste in 40 CFR parts 260-265 and appendices, promulgated pursuant to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, 42 U.S.C. § 6901, et seq., as amended and rule 62-730, F.A.C., as amended.

Owner or operator means as any person or entity who owns or operates a facility, activity, vehicle or property subject to the regulations pursuant to this article.

Person has the same meaning given it in Article I, Section 4, of the Code, as amended.

Release means the unauthorized spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, seeping, leaching, dumping and disposing of any discarded hazardous material, sludge, or biomedical waste (including abandoning or discarding barrels, containers, or other closed receptacles) to the air, waters, soils or other natural resources of Broward County.

Responsible party has the meaning given it in Chapter 27, Article I, Section 4, of the Code, as amended.

Sludge means a solid waste pollution control residual which is generated by any industrial or domestic wastewater treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, air pollution control facility, septic tank, grease trap, portable toilet or related operation, or any other such waste having similar characteristics. Sludge may be a solid, liquid, or semisolid waste but does not include the treated effluent from a wastewater treatment plant.

Used oil means any oil which has been refined from crude oil or synthetic oil and, as a result of use, storage, or handling, has become contaminated and unsuitable for its original purpose due to the presence of impurities or loss of original properties.

Waste transporter means any person or entity who at any time carries, conveys, bears, or transports discarded hazardous material, sludge, or biomedical waste for commercial purposes. Waste transporter license means an authorization issued by EPGMD to transport discarded hazardous material, sludge, or biomedical waste to, from, and within Broward County.

(Ord. No. 1999-52, § 3, 9-28-99; Ord. No. 2005-11, § 9, 5-24-05; Ord. No. 2009-56, § 1, 8-25-09)