Ordinance - #89-26 - 10/10/1989 - Laserfiche WebLink

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"Incinerator" means any furnace or other device used in the process of burning solid waste, hazardous waste, medical waste or special waste for the purpose of reducing the volume of the waste by removing combustible material. "Medical Waste" means all segregated, non-recycled wastes other than kitchen or office wastes produced by hospitals, clinics, doctors' and dentists' offices, funeral homes, veterinary clinics, and other medical and research facilities. These wastes include infectious wastes as defined by part 7035.0300, subpart 48 of Minnesota Rules, or other relevant rule or statute defining infectious wastes, pathological waste, and laboratory wastes. "Solid Waste" means garbage, refuse, and other discarded solid materials, except animal waste used as fertilizer, including solid waste materials resulting from industrial, commercial, and agricultural operations, and from community activities. Solid waste does not include earthen fill, boulders, rock, and other materials normally handled in construction operations, solids or dissolved material in domestic sewage, or other significant pollutants in water resources, such as slit, dissolved or suspended solids in industrial waste water effluents, dissolved materials in irrigation return flows, or other common water pollutants. "Special Waste" means any waste material not considered hazardous or solid waste which has been determined by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency or Environmental Protection Agency to require special handling or treatment prior to disposal. Co Nothing contained herein shall prohibit the use of incinerator burning of solid waste as defined herein generated on the premises by incinerators lawfully permitted and presently in use within the City. SECTION 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Ordinance becomes effective upon its passage and thirty (30) days after its publication according to law, subject to City Charter Provision, Section 5.04. SECTION 4. ORDINANCE SUMMARY FOR PUBLICATION. The following official summary of Ordinance #89-26 has been approved by at least four-fifths vote of the members of the Ramsey City Council as clearly informing the public of the intent and effect of the ordinance and it is this Ordinance Summary that will be published in the City's official newspaper to wit: It Ds the intent and effect of Ordinance #89-26 to amend the City's Zoning Code by prohibiting the burning of solid waste, hazardous waste, medical waste or special waste by the use of an incinerator or hazardous waste incinerator. The text of the ordinance contains definitions of those terms described above. A printed copy of the ordinance is available for interpretation by any person during regular office hours at the Ramsey Municipal Center.