Illinois Administrative Code
Title 35 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Part 889 - MEDICATION TAKEBACK PROGRAM
Subpart A - GENERAL
Section 889.105 - Definitions

Universal Citation: 35 IL Admin Code ยง 889.105
Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 38, September 20, 2024

Except as stated in this Section, or unless a different meaning of a word or term is clear from the context, the definitions of words or terms in this Part shall be the same as that applied to the same words or terms in Title I or Title V of the Environmental Protection Act.

"Act" means the Environmental Protection Act [ 415 ILCS 5 ].

"Agency" means the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency. [415 ILCS 5/3.105]

"Controlled substance" means a controlled substance as defined in the Illinois Controlled Substances Act [ 720 ILCS 570 ]. [415 ILCS 5/22.55(b)]

"Household waste" means waste generated from a single residence or multiple residences. [ 415 ILCS 5/22.55(b)]

"Household waste drop-off point" means the portion of a site or facility used solely for the receipt and temporary storage of household waste. [ 415 ILCS 5/22.55(b)]

"Medication takeback location" means a household waste drop-off point that accepts pharmaceutical products for which the Agency has agreed to make disposal arrangements.

"Operator" means a person responsible for the operation and maintenance of a household waste drop-off point at which pharmaceutical products are accepted.

"Owner" means a person who has an interest, directly or indirectly, in land, including a leasehold interest, on which a person operates or maintains a medication takeback who operates or maintains that medication takeback location.

"Person" means individual, trust, firm, joint stock company, joint venture, consortium, commercial entity, corporation (including a government corporation), partnership, association, state, municipality, commission, political subdivision of a state, or any interstate body, including the United States government and each department, agency and instrumentality of the United States. [ 415 ILCS 5/58.2]

"Pharmaceutical product" means a medicine or a product containing medicine. A pharmaceutical product may be sold by prescription or over the counter. "Pharmaceutical product" does not include medicine or a product that contains a radioactive component. [ 415 ILCS 5/22.55(b)]

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