§ 82-132. Definitions.

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

Hazardous waste means any waste material which may pose a present or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly disposed of, treated, stored, transported, or otherwise managed, including (i) hazardous waste identified in accordance with Section 3001 of the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (42 USC 6901 et seq.), (ii) hazardous waste identified by regulation by the Department of Environmental Protection, and (iii) polychlorinated biphenyls in concentrations greater than 50 parts per million, but does not mean byproduct material, source material or special nuclear material, as defined in G.S. § 22a-151, or scrap tires.

Street means and includes avenues, boulevards, highways, roads, alleys, lanes, viaducts, bridges and the approaches thereto, and all other public thoroughfares within the territorial limits of the town, excluding therefrom those avenues, boulevards, highways, roads, alleys, lanes, viaducts, bridges, and the approaches thereto maintained and repaired by the state and/or defined as state highways by the general statutes or regulations of the state.

Truck means every motor vehicle (including trailers and semitrailers used for transportation and drawn or propelled by a motor vehicle) used for the transportation of any and all materials, substances and property.

Waste materials means the industrial, commercial, residential, and/or recreational products or byproducts (hazardous or nonhazardous) which is/are no longer efficient at and/or no longer desired for its/their original purpose, use or function.

Watercourse means all bodies of water, natural or artificial, public or private, having continuous or intermittent flow, which are contained within, flow through, or border upon this state or any portion thereof. Such bodies of water shall include, but not be limited to, rivers, streams, brooks, waterways, lakes, ponds, marshes, swamps, bogs, and manmade drainage or storm sewer systems.

(Code 1967, § 6-61)

State law reference

Similar provisions, G.S. § 22a-115.