§ 74-182. Definitions.

For the purposes of this chapter, certain terms and words are hereby defined:

Dump means to throw, discard, place, deposit, discharge, bury, burn, or dispose of a substance.

End user means the last person who uses the scrap tires, chips, crumb rubber, or similar materials to make a product with economic value, or in the case of energy recovery, the person who utilized the heat content or other forms of energy from the incineration or pyrolysis of waste tires, chips or similar materials.

Environmental code enforcement officer means an officer of the city authorized to write official warnings and citations to insure compliance with the City of Chamblee Scrap Tire Management Ordinance and Solid Waste Code. This definition shall include anyone designated by the city as a sanitation inspector.

Manifest means a document used to identify the quantity and composition and the origin, routing and destination of scrap tires during transportation from the point of generation, through any intermediate points, to an end user, processor or disposer approved by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Environmental Protection Division, hereinafter referred to as EPD.

Mixed tires means a heterogeneous group of tires consisting of used, retreadable casings and scrap tires.

Recycle means any process by which materials which would otherwise become solid waste are collected, separated, or processed and reused or returned to use in the form of raw materials or products.

Retreadable casing means a tire suitable for retreading.

Reused tire means a tire used for purposes, approved by the EPD, other than intended, such as playground equipment, offshore reefs and erosion control.

Scrap tire means a tire that is no longer suitable for its originally intended purpose because of wear, damage or defect.

Scrap tire carrier means any person engaged in picking up or transporting scrap tires, not otherwise exempted, for the purpose of removal to a scrap tire processor, end use, or disposal facility.

Scrap tire generator means any person who generates scrap tires. Generators may include, but are not limited to, retail tire dealers, retreaders, scrap tire processors, automobile dealers, private company vehicle maintenance shops, garages and service stations.

Scrap tire processing means any method, system, or other treatment designated to change the physical form, size, or chemical content of scrap tires and includes all aspects of its management (administration, personnel, land, equipment, building, and other elements) and includes processing by: Shredding, chopping, chipping, baling, splitting, recycling or sorting of scrap tires.

Scrap tire processor means any person, other than the original scrap tire generators, who handles mixed tires by separating used tires and retreadable casing from scrap tires.

Scrap tire sorter means any person, other than the original scrap tire generators, who handles mixed tires by separating used tires and retreadable casing from scrap tires.

Solid waste means any garbage or refuse; sludge from a wastewater treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility; and other discarded material including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining, and agricultural operation materials; solid or dissolved matters in domestic sewage; solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or industrial discharges that are point sources subject to permit under 33 U.S.C. Section 1342; or source, special nuclear, or byproduct material as defined by the Federal Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended and as defined by O.C.G.A. § 12-8-22(33) as may hereafter be amended.

Tire means a continuous, solid or pneumatic covering designed for encircling the wheel of a vehicle that is not permanently attached to the vehicle or a part of the vehicle as original equipment.

Tire handling business means any person that derives 15 percent or more of its gross income from the sale, processing, transporting or disposal of tires.

Tire retailer means any person engaged in the business of selling new replacement tires.

Tire retreader means any person actively engaged in the business of retreading scrap tires by scarifying the surface to remove the old surface tread and attaching a new tread to make a usable tire.

Ultimate consumer means the last person who receives and uses a new replacement tire. Ultimate consumers may be, but are not limited to, individual, leasing and private companies purchasing tires from retail dealers for their vehicle fleets and government agencies.

Used tire means a tire which has a minimum of two-thirty-seconds-foot of road tread and which is still suitable for its original purpose. It must be inventoried and marketed in substantially the same fashion as a new tire, and the dealer must be able to provide satisfactory evidence to the city that a market exists, and that the used tires are in fact being marketed.

(Ord. No. 629, pt. I, 12-21-10)