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

(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.