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EXHIBIT A
<br />ATTY/ORD.0012/CC ORD AMENDING ARTICLE I, II, & III OF REDWOOD CITY MUNICIPAL CODE – EXHIBIT A
<br />REV: 11-05-25 MI
<br />Page 1 of 7
<br />ARTICLE I. IN GENERAL
<br />Sec. 14.1. DEFINITIONS:
<br />For the purposes of this Chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to
<br />them in this Section:
<br />GARBAGE: Shall mean and include all putrescible and non-putrescible solid, semisolid, and liquid wastes, including
<br />trash, refuse, rubbish, ashes, industrial wastes, demolition and construction wastes, discarded home and industrial
<br />appliances, dewatered, treated or chemically fixed sewage sludge which is not hazardous waste, manure, animal
<br />solid and semisolid wastes, and other discarded solid and semisolid wastes as defined in California Public Resources
<br />Code section 40191, as that section may be amended from time to time. “Garbage” shall not include abandoned
<br />vehicles, hazardous waste, or recyclables.
<br />HEALTH OFFICER: Shall mean the Public Works Services Director, or their designee.
<br />MAXIMUM RATES: Shall mean the highest rates that a Refuse Collector may charge customers for a particular
<br />service, as approved by resolution of the City Council.
<br />ORGANIC MATERIALS: Shall mean solid waste containing material originated from living organisms and their
<br />metabolic waste products including, but not limited to, food, green material, landscape and pruning waste, organic
<br />textiles and carpets, lumber, wood, paper products, printing and writing paper, manure, biosolids, digestate, sludge,
<br />and any other material defined as “organic waste” in 14 CCR Section 18982 as it may be updated from time to time.
<br />RECYCLABLES: Shall mean non-hazardous residential, commercial, or industrial materials or by-products which are
<br />set aside, handled, packaged, or offered for collection in a manner different than garbage, including but not limited
<br />to paper (newspaper, magazines, corrugated cardboard, Kraft paper, ledger paper, computer printout, box board,
<br />and other paper grades); glass; ferrous and nonferrous metal materials; plastic containers, packaging materials and
<br />scrap; and construction and demolition materials.
<br />RECYCLING: Shall mean the process of collecting, sorting, cleansing, treating, and reconstituting materials that would
<br />otherwise become solid waste, and returning them to the economic mainstream in the form of raw materials for
<br />new, reused, or reconstituted products which meet the quality standards necessary to be used in the marketplace.
<br />Recycling does not include transformation as defined in Public Resources Code Section 40201.
<br />REFUSE: Shall mean and be held to include all types of waste materials such as defined herein under the heading of
<br />“garbage”, “organic materials”, “recyclables”, “rubbish”, “solid waste,” and “waste matter”.
<br />REFUSE COLLECTOR: Any person or entity with whom the City shall have duly contracted, under the terms of this
<br />Chapter, to collect and transport refuse through the streets, alleys or public ways of the City.
<br />RUBBISH: Shall mean and be held to include pasteboard boxes, rags, straw, sawdust, packing material, shavings, and
<br />all other combustible material.
<br />SELF-HAUL: Shall refer to a generator who transports solid waste they have generated to a permitted solid waste
<br />processing facility using the generator’s own vehicles, equipment, and employees. Self-hauler also includes a
<br />generator who back-hauls, a landscaper, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(66).
<br />SOLID WASTE: Shall mean “garbage.”
<br />WASTE MATTER: Shall mean and be held to include crockery, ashes, shells, plaster, brickbats and all other
<br />noncombustible materials.
<br />Sec. 14.2. REFUSE SERVICE REQUIRED TO ALL OCCUPIED PREMISES:
<br />A.All occupied premises within the limits of the City shall have refuse service as specified in this Chapter and
<br />for the service a charge shall be collected in accordance with Section 14.31 of this Chapter, except as
<br />otherwise specified in subsection (B).
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