19-7-102. DEFINITIONS.

1. “Beverage” means beer or other malt beverages and mineral waters, soda water and similar carbonated soft drinks in liquid form and intended for human consumption.
2. “Beverage container” means the individual, separate, sealed glass, metal or plastic bottle, can, jar or carton designed to contain a beverage.
3. “Biodegradable” means degradable through a process by which fungi or bacteria secrete enzymes to convert a complex molecular structure to simple gasses and organic compounds.
4. “Contaminate” means to introduce a substance into water that would cause:
   1. The concentration of that substance to exceed the maximum concentration or contaminant levels established pursuant to federal law and regulations; or
   2. An increase in the concentration of such substance where the concentration in the ground water already exceeds the levels established by federal law and regulations.
5. “Degradable” means capable of decomposing by biodegradation, photodegradation or chemical process into harmless component parts after exposure to natural elements for not more than 365 days.
6. “Demolition waste” means any solid waste, largely inert waste, resulting from the demolition of or razing of buildings, roads, and other man-made structures, and any other material defined as “demolition waste” pursuant to federal law.
7. “Hazardous waste” means solid waste that is flammable, corrosive, radioactive, explosive, toxic or reactive or that otherwise meets the criteria established for hazardous waste in federal law.
8. “Hospital or medical wastes” includes laboratory or surgical wastes and implements, such as tissues, specimens of blood elements, excreta, and secretions obtained from patients or laboratory animals, or clothing, rags, needles, or paper goods contaminated with such waste.
9. “Landfill” means a disposal facility or part of a facility at which solid waste is permanently placed in or on the land.
10. “Liter” means any used or unconsumed substance or waste, including but not limited to any garbage, trash, refuse, debris, rubbish, grass clippings or other lawn or garden waste, newspaper, magazines, glass, metal, plastic or paper containers or other packaging construction material, abandoned motor vehicle, motor vehicle parts, furniture, oil, carcass of a dead animal, any nauseous or offensive matter of any kind, any object likely to injure a person or create a traffic hazard, or anything else of an unsightly or unsanitary nature that has been discarded, abandoned or otherwise disposed of.
11. “Person” means an individual, firm, association, co-partnership, political subdivision, government agency, municipality, public or private corporation, or any other entity whatsoever, except for the Rosebud Sioux Tribe as a sovereign entity.
12. “Photodegradable” means degradable through a process in which ultraviolet radiation in sunlight causes a chemical change in a material.
13. “Photodegradable” means degradable through a process in which ultraviolet radiation in sunlight causes a chemical change in a material.
14. “Solid Waste” means all putrescible and non-putrescible solid and semi-solid wastes including, but not limited to, abandoned vehicles or parts thereof, ashes, demolition and construction wastes, discarded commodities, garbage, industrial wastes, rubbish, swill, and all other materials defined as “solid waste” pursuant to federal law. “Solid waste” also means all liquid, solid and semisolid materials that are not the primary products of public, private, industrial, commercial, mining, and agricultural operations. Solid waste includes but is not limited to sludge from waste water treatment plants and septage from septic tanks and wood waste;
15. “Solid waste disposal site” means the location where any final treatment, utilization, processing or deposition of solid waste occurs.
16. “Vector” means a living animal, insect, or other anthropoid which transmits or can transmit an infectious disease from an organism to another.