(1) “Board of Health” or “the Board” means the Clallam County Board of Health.

(2) “Commercial dumping” means the dumping or depositing of solid waste, with the exception of dumping by any person of solid waste generated from the person’s residential activities.

(3) “County” means Clallam County.

(4) “Department” or “jurisdictional health department” means the Clallam County Environmental Health Services Division.

(5) “Ecology” means the Washington State Department of Ecology.

(6) “Health Officer” means the Clallam County Health Officer as stated in RCW 70.05.010 and 70.05.050, and his or her authorized representatives.

(7) “Hearing Officer” means the Health Officer serving as the Hearing Officer for all administrative hearings who may delegate this responsibility to the County Hearing Examiner when appropriate.

(8) “Household hazardous waste” means any waste that exhibits any of the properties of dangerous waste but is exempt from regulation under Chapter 70A.300 RCW, Hazardous waste management, solely because the waste is generated by households. Household hazardous waste can also include other solid waste identified in the local hazardous waste management plan prepared pursuant to Chapter 70A.300 RCW, Hazardous waste management.

(9) “Litter” means all waste material including but not limited to disposable packages or containers thrown or deposited as herein prohibited and solid waste that is illegally dumped, but not including the wastes of the primary processes of mining, logging, sawmilling, farming, or manufacturing. “Litter” includes the material described in subsection (15) of this section, “potentially dangerous litter.”

(10) “Moderate risk waste (MRW)” means solid waste that is limited to conditionally exempt small quantity generator (CESQG) waste and household hazardous waste (HHW) as defined in this chapter.

(11) “MRW facility” means a solid waste handling unit that is used to collect, treat, recycle, exchange, store, consolidate, and/or transfer moderate risk waste. This does not include mobile systems and collection events, limited MRW facilities, or product take-back centers that meet the applicable terms and conditions of WAC 173-350-360(2).

(12) “Noncommercial dumping” means the dumping or depositing of solid waste that has resulted from the person’s own personal residential activities.

(13) “Nuisance” consists of unlawfully doing an act, or omitting to perform a duty, which act or omission either annoys, injures, or endangers the repose, health or safety of others; or unlawfully interferes with, obstructs or tends to obstruct, any lake or navigable river, bay, stream, canal or basin, or any public park, square, street or highway; or in any way renders other persons insecure in life, or in the use of property.

(14) “Person” means any individual, sole proprietorship, corporation, company, association, society, firm, partnership, joint stock company, limited liability company, or any branch of federal, State, or local government or any other entity.

(15) “Potentially dangerous litter” means litter that is likely to injure a person or cause damage to a vehicle or other property. Potentially dangerous litter is defined as, but not limited to:

(16) “Product take-back center” means a retail outlet or distributor that accepts household hazardous waste of comparable types as the products offered for sale or distributed at that outlet.

(17) “Solid waste,” “waste materials,” or “wastes” means all putrescible and nonputrescible solid and semisolid wastes including, but not limited to, garbage, rubbish, ashes, industrial wastes, swill, sewage sludge, demolition and construction wastes, abandoned vehicles or parts thereof, contaminated soils and contaminated dredged material, and recyclable materials or as defined in WAC 173-350-021.

(18) “Solid waste handling” means the management, storage, collection, transportation, treatment, utilization, processing, and final disposal of solid wastes, including the recovery and recycling of materials from solid wastes, the recovery of energy resources from solid wastes or the conversion of the energy in solid wastes to more useful forms or combinations thereof.