Sec. 386.103. - Definitions.
As used or referred to in this Chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) Reserved.
(b) Disposal means the discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking or placing of any solid or hazardous waste into or upon any land or water so that solid waste or hazardous waste or any constituent thereof may enter other lands or be emitted into the air or discharged into any waters, including groundwaters, or otherwise enter the environment.
(c) Municipality, or any like term, means a municipality created pursuant to general or special law authorized or recognized pursuant to general or special law authorized or recognized pursuant to Fla. Const. Art. VIII, § 2 or § 6 and, when F.S. § 403.706(20) applies, means a special district or other entity.
(d) Person has the meaning given to it in Section 2.101(g), Ordinance Code of the City of Jacksonville and in addition includes any officer, employee, agent, department or instrumentality of the Federal Government, any state, municipality, or political subdivision of the State, or of any foreign government.
(e) Solid waste means sludge unregulated under the federal Clean Water Act or Clean Air Act, sludge from a waste treatment works, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility, or garbage, rubbish, refuse, special waste, or other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material resulting from domestic, industrial, commercial, mining, agricultural, or governmental operations. Recovered materials as defined in F.S. § 403.703(7) are not solid waste.
(f) Solid waste management means the process by which solid waste is collected, transported, stored, separated, processed or disposed of in any other way, according to an orderly, purposeful and planned program, which includes closure and long-term maintenance.
(g) Resource recovery means the process of recovering materials or energy from solid waste, excluding those materials or solid waste under control of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
(h) Solid waste management facility means any solid waste disposal area, volume reduction plant, transfer station, or other facility, the purpose of which is the recovery of resources or the disposal, recycling, processing or storage of solid waste. The term does not include facilities which use or ship recovered materials unless such facilities are managing solid waste.
(i) White goods includes inoperative and discarded refrigerators, ranges, water heaters, freezers and other similar domestic and commercial large appliances.
(j) Biohazardous waste means any solid waste or liquid waste which may present a threat of infection to humans. The term includes, but is not limited to nonliquid human tissue and body parts; laboratory and veterinary waste which contain human-disease-causing agents; discarded disposable sharps; human blood, and human blood products and body fluids; and other materials which, in the opinion of the Department of Health, represent a significant risk of infection to persons outside the generating facility. The term does not include human remains that are disposed of by persons licensed under F.S. Ch. 470.
(k) Clean debris means any solid waste which is virtually inert and which is not a pollution threat to groundwater or surface waters and is not a fire hazard and which is likely to retain its physical and chemical structure under expected conditions of disposal or use. The term includes uncontaminated concrete, including embedded pipe or steel, brick, glass, ceramics and other wastes designated by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.
(l) Generation means the act or process of producing solid or hazardous waste.
(m) Solid waste disposal facility means any solid waste management facility which is the final resting place for solid waste, including landfills and incineration facilities that produce ash from the process of incinerating municipal solid waste.
(n) Construction and demolition debris means discarded materials generally considered to be not water-soluble and nonhazardous in nature, including, but not limited to, steel, glass, brick, concrete, asphalt roofing material, pipe, gypsum wallboard, and lumber, from the construction or destruction of a structure as part of a construction or demolition project or from the renovation of a structure, and including rocks, soils, tree remains, trees, and other vegetative matter that normally results from land clearing or land development operations for a construction project, including such debris from construction of structures at a site remote from the construction or demolition project site. Mixing of construction and demolition debris with other types of solid waste will cause it to be classified as other than construction and demolition debris. The term also includes:
(1) Clean cardboard, paper, plastic, wood, and metal scraps from a construction project;
(2) Except as provided in F.S. § 403.707(12)(j), unpainted, nontreated wood scraps from facilities manufacturing materials used for construction of structures or their components and unpainted, nontreated wood pallets provided the wood scraps and pallets are separated from other solid waste where generated and the generator of such wood scraps or pallets implements reasonable practices of the generating industry to minimize the commingling of wood scraps or pallets with other solid waste; and
(3) De minimis amounts of other nonhazardous wastes that are generated at construction or destruction projects, provided such amounts are consistent with best management practices of the industry.
(o) Operation, with respect to any solid waste management facility, means the disposal, storage or processing of solid waste at and by any facility.
(p) Director means the Manager of the Office of Administrative Services.
(q) Special wastes means solid wastes that can require special handling and management, including, but not limited to white goods, waste tires, used oil, lead-acid batteries, construction and demolition debris, ash residue, yard trash, and biological wastes.
(r) Certificate means a certificate of public convenience and necessity under Chapter 380, Ordinance Code.
(s) Designation means chosen by the City of Jacksonville to receive solid waste generated in or brought into the County. Only facilities holding a certificate under Chapter 380, Ordinance Code may receive designation.
(t) Service agreement means an agreement between the City of Jacksonville and a designated facility which includes conditions and terms upon which the facility may operate within Duval County.
(u) Host fee means a fee payable by the facility to the City of Jacksonville for the privilege of receiving solid waste generated in or brought into the County.
(v) Tipping fee means the fee charged to the customer by the facility for the receipt or disposal, processing or management of solid waste.
(w) Class I solid waste disposal area means a disposal facility which receives an average of 20 tons or more per day, if scales are available, or 50 cubic yards or more per day of solid waste, as measured in place after covering, and which receives an initial cover daily.
(x) Yard trash means vegetative matter resulting from landscaping maintenance or land clearing operations and includes materials such as shrub trimmings, grass clippings, palm fronds, trees and stumps.
(Ord. 90-297-170, § 1; Ord. 94-144-121, § 15; Ord. 2008-513-E, § 1; Ord. 2025-30-E, § 17)
