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Title 17, Chapter 1
17-101
§ 17-101
Dandridge
Title 17 : Refuse and Trash Disposal
Chapter 1 : Solid Waste

17-101 : Definitions.

  1. "Ashes." The term "ashes" shall include the waste products from coal, wood, and other fuels used for cooking and heating from all public and private residences and establishments.
  2. "Bulk container." The term "bulk container" shall mean steel waste receptacles of not less than two (2) cubic yards and not more than eight (8) cubic yards designed for the storage of solid waste. The containers shall meet industry standards for service.
  3. "Collector." The term "collector" shall mean any person, firm, corporation, or political subdivision that collects, transports, or disposes of any refuse within the corporate limits of the Town of Dandridge.
  4. "Commercial solid waste." The term "commercial solid waste" shall mean solid waste resulting from the operation of any commercial, industrial, institutional or agricultural establishment, and multiple housing facilities.
  5. "Construction waste." The term "construction waste" shall mean materials from construction, demolition, remodeling, construction site preparation, including but not limited to rocks, trees, debris, dirt, bricks, fill, plaster, and all types of scrap building materials.
  6. "Garbage." The term "garbage" shall include all putrescible waste, except sewage and body waste, including vegetable and animal offal and carcasses of dead domesticated animals at the discretion of the public works superintendent, but excluding recognizable industrial byproducts, from all public and private residences.
  7. "Grass clippings." The term "grass clippings" shall mean any residue remaining from the cutting, clipping, or trimming of grass from any home, business, or agricultural endeavor.
  8. "Hazardous refuse." The term "hazardous refuse" shall mean any chemical compound, mixture, substance or article which may constitute a hazard to health or may cause damage to property by reason of being explosive, flammable, poisonous, corrosive, unstable, irritating, radioactive, infectious, or otherwise harmful.
  9. "Health officer." The term "health officer" shall mean the Public Works Superintendent of the Town of Dandridge or his authorized representative.
  10. "Industrial waste." The term "industrial waste" shall mean all such wastes peculiar to industrial, manufacturing or processing plants and shall include hazardous refuse.
  11. "Infectious wastes." The term "infectious waste" means waste which contains pathogens with sufficient virulence and quantity so that exposure to the waste by a susceptible host could result in an infectious disease. For purposes of this policy, the following waste shall be considered to be infectious waste:

    1. Isolation wastes. Wastes contaminated by patients who are isolated due to communicable disease, as provided in 2007 Guideline for Isolation Precautions: Preventing Transmission of Infectious Agents in Healthcare Settings.
    2. Cultures and stocks of infectious agents and associated biologicals. Cultures and stocks of infectious agents, including specimen cultures from medical and pathological laboratories, cultures and stocks of infectious agents from research and industrial laboratories, wastes from the production of biologicals, discarded live and attenuated vaccines, and culture dishes and devices used to transfer, inoculate, and mix cultures.
    3. Human blood and blood products. Waste human blood and blood products such as serum, plasma, and other blood components.
    4. Pathological wastes. Pathological wastes, such as tissues, organs, body parts, and body fluids.
    5. Contaminated sharps. All discarded sharps (e.g. hypodermic needles, syringes, Pasteur pipettes, broken glass, scalpel blades) used in patient care or which have come into contact with infectious agents during use in medical, research, or industrial laboratories.
    6. Contaminated animal carcasses, body parts, and bedding. Contaminated carcasses, body parts (including fluids), and bedding of animals that were intentionally exposed to pathogens in research, in the production of biologicals, or in the in vivo testing of pharmaceuticals.
    7. Facility-specified infectious wastes. Other wastes determined to be infectious by a written facility policy.
  12. "Pronouns." The pronouns he, him and his shall refer to persons of the female as well as the male gender, as applicable.
  13. "Residential solid waste." The term "residential solid waste" shall mean solid waste resulting from the maintenance and operation of dwelling units, excluding multiple housing facilities. This also excludes specific wastes defined and/or included in other parts of this chapter.
  14. "Roll out container." The term "roll out container" shall mean a standard town issued ninety-six (96) gallon container designed for the storage of solid waste prior to collection.
  15. "Rubbish." The term "rubbish" shall include all non-putrescible waste materials except ashes from all public and private residences and establishments.
  16. "Sanitation fee." The term "sanitation fee" shall mean the fee(s) imposed at the Town of Dandridge for collection and disposal of solid waste and recyclables.
  17. "Solid waste." The term "solid waste," as hereinafter referred to in this chapter, shall include garbage, rubbish, and all other putrescible and non-putrescible, combustible and noncombustible materials originating from the preparation, cooking, and consumption of food, market refuse, waste from the handling and sale of produce, and other similar unwanted materials, from residences and establishments, public and private, but shall not include sewage, body waste, recognizable industrial or medical by-products.
  18. "Yard waste." The term "yard waste" shall mean, leaves, tree and shrubbery trimmings. (Ord. #13/14-05, June 2013, modified)
Date Last Updated: 09/10/2019
Codification Date: 06/01/2019

Officials at Date of Last Codification:

Mayor - George Gantte 
Vice Mayor - Todd Kesterson 
Aldermen - Mike Chambers 
Aldermen - Jeffrey Depew 
Aldermen - Jessie Elder 
Aldermen - Mike Nelson 
Aldermen - Marianne Reese 
Town Recorder - Cathy Dixon

Date Last Updated: 09/10/2019
Codification Date: 06/01/2019

Officials at Date of Last Codification:

Mayor - George Gantte 
Vice Mayor - Todd Kesterson 
Aldermen - Mike Chambers 
Aldermen - Jeffrey Depew 
Aldermen - Jessie Elder 
Aldermen - Mike Nelson 
Aldermen - Marianne Reese 
Town Recorder - Cathy Dixon