3.23.040 Definitions

(a) "Collection Site" means any place designated by the Tribal Council as the site where solid wastes may be presented, and includes transfer stations.

(b) "Collector" means any natural or legal person, and that person's employees and agents, who gathers from another person that person's solid waste.

(c) "Computers and Computer Accessories" means all computer components, including but not limited to monitors, central processing units (CPU's), keyboards, printers, scanners, and any and all accessories to the computer, whether used for household, government, educational or commercial purposes. Computers and Computer Accessories which are not recycled shall be considered hazardous waste.

(d) "Hazardous waste" means any solid, liquid, or mixed waste or combination of wastes, which because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics may pose a substantial presence or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly treated, managed, or which may cause or significantly contribute to an increase in serious irreversible, or incapacitating reversible, illness; including but not limited to nuclear waste or nuclear products, and petroleum, natural gas, or synthetic gas products.

(e) "Major Appliance" or "White Goods" means a residential or commercial air conditioner, clothes dryer, clothes washer, dishwasher, freezer, microwave oven, oven, refrigerator, furnace, boiler, dehumidifier, water heater or stove.

(f) "Non-resident" means any person who does not have a permanent place of abode on the Reservation, except as hereafter provided. Non resident does not mean any temporary or seasonal resident, for purposes of solid waste generated at the temporary or seasonal residence, and does not mean any place of business, for purposes of solid waste general at the business.

(g) "Reservation" means the Bad River Reservation.

(h) "Solid waste" means all waste, garbage, rubbish, offal, trash and other discarded solid waste materials resulting from residential, commercial, agricultural, industrial, community, and other human activities, including liquid waste contained within solid waste, and including hazardous waste, but does not include sewage and human wastes.

(i) "Transfer station" means any facility approved by the Tribal Council for the purpose of collecting, transporting, and disposing of solid waste.

(j) "Tribal Council" means the Tribal Council of the Tribe.

(k) "Tribal Court" means the Tribal Court of the Tribe.

(l) "Tribe" means the Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians.