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

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.