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BOOT 9 ?AGE6 <br />AN ORDINANCE GOVERNING THE STORAGE, COLLECTION, TRANSPORTING <br />AND DISPOSAL OF SOLID WASTE IN LEE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA <br />BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF LEE COUNTY: <br />Section 1. That this ordinance governing the storage, collection, <br />transporting and disposal of solid waste throughout Lee County for the <br />protection of public health is hereby adopted pursuant to authority <br />granted by Articles 6 and 15 Chapter 153A of the General Statutes of <br />North Carolina. <br />Section 2. -Definitions <br />The following definitions shall apply in the interpretation and <br />enforcement of this ordinance: <br />A. Commissioner - Means the Board of County Commissioners of <br />Lee County or their authorized representative. <br />B. Garbage - All putrescible wastes, including animal and vegetable <br />matter, animal offal and carcasses, and recognizable industrial <br />by-products, but excluding sewage and human waste. <br />C. Person - Means any individual, firm, governmental unit, organization, <br />partnership, corporation or company. <br />D. Refuse - All nonputrescible wastes. <br />E. Solid Waste - Garbage, refuse, rubbish, trash, and other <br />discarded solid material including solid waste materials resulting <br />from industrial, commercial, and agricultural operations, and from <br />community activities, but does not include solids or dissolved <br />materials in domestic sewage or other significant pollutants in <br />water resources, such as silt, dissolved or suspended solids in <br />industrial waste water effluents, dissolved materials in irrigation <br />return flow or.other common water pollutants. <br />F. Solid Waste Collector - Means any person who collects or <br />transports solid waste. <br />G. Solid Waste Collection Site - Any place at which a solid waste <br />container is placed for the collection and temporary storage <br />of solid waste pending periodic removal by the County solid <br />waste collection to the County Landfill site. <br />H. Solid Waste Disposal Site - Any place at which solid wastes are <br />disposed of by incineration, sanitary landfill or any other method <br />approved by the Commissioners. <br />