As used in this chapter unless the context indicates otherwise:

1. (1) "Department" means the Department of Health and Environmental Control;
2. (2) "Director" means the director of the department;
3. (3) "Disposable package or container" means all packages or containers defined as such by rules and regulations adopted by the department;
4. (4) "Litter" means all waste material including but not limited to disposable packages or containers, trash, garbage or refuse, but not including the wastes of the primary processes of mining, logging, sawmilling or farming;
5. (5) "Litter receptacle" means those containers adopted by the department which may be standardized as to size, shape, capacity and color and which may bear a state anti-litter symbol, as well as any other receptacle suitable for the depositing of litter;
6. (6) "Person" means an individual, partnership, copartnership, cooperative, firm, company, public or private corporation, political subdivision, agency of the State, trust, estate, joint structure company or any other legal entity or its legal representative, agent or assigns.
7. (7) "Vehicle" means every device capable of being moved upon a public highway and in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a public highway, except devices moved by human or animal power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks;
8. (8) "Watercraft" means any boat, ship, vessel, barge or other floating craft;
9. (9) "Public place" means any area that is used or held out for use by the public, whether owned or operated by public or private interests.
10. (10) "Open dump" means a land disposal site for solid waste which does not qualify as a sanitary landfill.

11. (11) "Solid waste" means any garbage, refuse, sludge from a waste treatment facility, water supply plant, or air pollution control facility and other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semisolid or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining and agricultural operations and from community activities.

    This term does not include solid or dissolved material in domestic sewage, or solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or industrial discharges which are point sources subject to NPDES permits under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended, or the Pollution Control Act of South Carolina, as amended, or source, special nuclear, or byproduct material as defined by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended.

12. (12) "Sanitary landfill" means a method of disposing of solid waste on land without creating pollution, nuisances, environmental threats or hazards to public health and safety.
13. (13) "Board" means the South Carolina Board of Health and Environmental Control.

HISTORY: 1978 Act No. 496 Section 4; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1141.