Md. Code Regs. 26.03.03.01

Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 22, November 1, 2024

Section 26.03.03.01 - Definitions

A. In this chapter, the following terms have the meanings indicated.

B. Terms Defined.

(1) "County" means any of the 23 Maryland counties or Baltimore City.

(2) County Plan.

(a) "County plan" means a comprehensive plan for adequately providing throughout the county (including all towns, municipal corporations, and sanitary districts) the following facilities and services by public or private ownership:

(i) Solid waste disposal systems;

(ii) Solid waste acceptance facilities; and

(iii) Systematic collection and disposal of solid waste, including litter.

(b) "County plan" includes all revisions to the plan.

(3) "Department" means the Department of the Environment.

(4) "Governing body" means the Board of County Commissioners, or the County Executive and Council, or the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore.

(5) "Litter" means any waste materials, refuse, garbage, trash, debris, dead animals, or other discarded material.

(6) "Refuse" means any solid, liquid, semi-solid, or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining, or agricultural operations, or from community activities, which:

(a) Is discarded, or is being accumulated, stored, or physically, chemically, or biologically treated before being discarded; or

(b) Has served its original intended use and sometimes is discarded; or

(c) Is a manufacturing or mining by-product and sometimes is discarded.

(7) "Revision" means either an adopted amendment to, or a periodic update of, a county plan.

(8) "Solid waste" means any garbage, refuse, sludge, or liquid from industrial, commercial, mining, or agricultural operations, and from community activities, but does not include solid or dissolved material in domestic sewage or in irrigation return flows.

(9) "Solid waste acceptance facility" means any sanitary landfill, incinerator, transfer station or plant, whose primary purpose is to dispose of, treat, or process solid waste.

(10) Solid Waste Disposal System.

(a) "Solid waste disposal system" means any publicly or privately owned system that:

(i) Provides a scheduled or systematic collection of solid waste;

(ii) Transports the solid waste to a solid waste acceptance facility; and

(iii) Treats or otherwise disposes of the solid waste at the solid waste acceptance facility.

(b) A solid waste disposal system includes each solid waste acceptance facility that is used in connection with it.

(11) "Solid waste management" means the systematic administration of activities which provide for the collection, source separation, storage, transportation, transfer, processing, treatment, re-use, or disposal of of solid waste.

Md. Code Regs. 26.03.03.01

Regulations .01 adopted effective November 4, 1985 (12:22 Md. R. 2104) ----------