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For the purpose of this chapter the following words, terms, and phrases have the following meanings:

APPLICANT: A person who has submitted an application for license pursuant to this chapter.

APPLICATION: An application for license submitted pursuant to this chapter.

BASE UNIT RATE: The residential rate established by a licensed hauler for the combined service level including the small capacity container and recycling container shall be the cost basis of the licensed hauler's volume-based service rate for all other service levels.

BIN: Any bin, can, cart or similar vessel with or without a lid or closed top used by commercial customers for the collection of solid waste in employee spaces, lodging units, common area or other areas prior to placement in trash, recyclables or organics containers for service by a licensed hauler.

COMMERCIAL CUSTOMER: Any premises in the town utilizing collection service where a business, industrial or institutional enterprise is carried out including without limitation hotels, retail establishments, restaurants, hospitals, schools, day care centers, office buildings, nursing homes, clubs, churches and public facilities regardless of container type.

CONTAINER: Any rigid cart, dumpster, compactor or other container with a lid or closed top that is provided by or to solid waste customers for collection by licensed haulers.

DAY: A calendar day, unless otherwise indicated.

DUMPSTER: Any container for trash or recyclables with a capacity of more than ninety nine (99) gallons.

GLASS: Glass materials established as acceptable recyclables by the Summit County Resource Allocations Park but shall only be accepted as a discrete material stream collected in a separate container and not mixed with other recyclables.

GOOD CAUSE:

For the purpose of refusing or denying a license renewal under this chapter:

A. The licensee has violated, does not meet, or has failed to comply with any of the terms, conditions, or provisions of this chapter; or any other law applicable to licensee; or

B. The licensee has failed to comply with the terms, conditions, or provisions of its solid waste hauler license issued pursuant to this chapter.

For the purpose of exemption to requirements of this chapter: the licensee has shown an impossibility preventing compliance.

GROUP ACCOUNT CUSTOMERS: Any group of residential customers that have individual containers but receive solid waste collection under a subscription or contract that collectively serves multiple residences. If a group account changes to shared containers it shall be considered a commercial customer.

LARGE CAPACITY CONTAINER(S): a container or containers with a volume capacity of more than ninety (90) gallons but not more than ninety nine (99) gallons.

LICENSEE: The person who has applied for and received a solid waste hauler license from Summit County and a BOLT license from the Town of Breckenridge.

MEDIUM CAPACITY CONTAINER(S): a container or containers with a volume capacity of more than sixty (60) gallons but not more than sixty nine (69) gallons.

ON-CALL CUSTOMER: Any residential or commercial generator that receives trash collection service on an irregular or unscheduled basis.

ORGANICS: Decomposable materials used in the production of compost of chipped and ground materials such as food scraps, yard waste, clean wood, biosolids and other materials designated by the Summit County Resource Allocation Park or the Breckenridge public works director that are collected from any residential, commercial or other customer separate from trash.

RECOVERABLE MATERIAL: Any material that can be reused, remanufactured, reclaimed, recycled, mulched, composted or other action that allows the resource to be conserved. Recoverable materials shall include those recyclables but may exclude any recyclables with fifteen percent (15%) or more contamination by volume.

RECYCLABLE MATERIALS: Solid waste from any residential, commercial, or other source that is collected separately for the purpose of such material being reprocessed into new or different products or packaging materials; provided, that such material have been designated by the licensing authority as recyclable.

RECYCLING: The process of recovering useful materials from solid waste, including items for reuse.

RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMER: An individual or individual residential property located in the town that has a discrete container and collection provided under a discrete service subscription or contract for that property as part of a group account.

SMALL CAPACITY CONTAINER(S): Containers with a volume capacity of not more than thirty nine (39) gallons.

SOLID WASTE: All putrescible and nonputrescible solid wastes discarded from any source including recyclable materials. The term "solid waste" shall exclude liquid wastes, sewage, sewage sludge, septic tank or cesspool pumpings; sand, asphalt, concrete, gravel, rock, dirt or other segregated construction materials to be used or reused in any construction project; timber, wood chips or vegetative matter hauled from the property where it is cut; agricultural wastes, solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return flows; industrial discharges which are point sources subject to licenses under the provisions of the Colorado water quality control act; materials handled at facilities licensed pursuant to the provisions on radiation control in article 11 of title 25, C.R.S.; exploration and production waste as defined in section 34-60-103(4.5), C.R.S., except as such wastes may be deposited at a commercial solid waste facility; excluded scrap metal that is being recycled; shredded circuit boards that are being recycled; discarded or abandoned vehicles or parts thereof; residential appliances; materials used as fertilizers or for other productive purposes; household hazardous wastes; and hazardous materials as defined in the rules and regulations adopted by the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act of 1987.

SOLID WASTE HAULER: Any person in the business of collecting, transporting to a landfill, disposal site, transfer station or other like facility, or disposing of solid waste, for a fee or other compensation.

SOLID WASTE HAULER LICENSE (OR LICENSE): A solid waste hauler license issued pursuant to this chapter.

SUMMIT COUNTY RESOURCE ALLOCATION PARK (SCRAP): The solid waste disposal site and facility owned and operated by Summit County, Colorado, government, located at 639 Landfill Road, Dillon, CO 80435. The county's solid waste drop-off facility located at 284 Coyne Valley Road in the town is part of the SCRAP, and the depositing of solid waste at the Coyne Valley Road facility shall be treated as depositing such solid waste at the SCRAP.

TRANSFER STATION: A facility at which refuse, awaiting transportation to disposal site, is transferred from one type of containerized collection receptacle and placed into another or is processed for compaction. "Refuse" means all forms of solid waste, including garbage, rubbish, trash, recyclable materials, and similar material.

TRASH: Any solid waste accepted at the Summit County Resource Allocation Park excepting recoverable materials.

VALET CUSTOMERS: Residential customers who receive regular, scheduled solid waste collection service but require manual retrieval or replacement from an enclosed property, garage, home or other structure.

VOLUME-BASED SERVICE RATES: Residential collection rates based on container size and intended to provide equitable service pricing and an incentive for landfill diversion. Residential volume-based service rates include the cost of both trash and recyclables collection in a single, bundled rate. (Ord. 5, Series 2017; amd. Ord. 24, Series 2022)