For the purposes of these regulations, the following shall be understood as:
- a)Sidewalk (Acera): Part of the right-of-way, normally located at its edges, reserved for pedestrian traffic.
- b)Wastewater (Aguas servidas): Domestic wastewater resulting from the daily activities of people. They require channeling systems and treatment in accordance with current regulations. They are also called Black Water or Sewage Water.
- c)Rainwater (Aguas pluviales): Water produced by rainfall.
- d)Storm drain system (Alcantarillado pluvial): System that collects and disposes only of rainwater. Composed of drains, wells, headwalls, and pipes.
- e)Real property (Bien inmueble): Any land with or without constructions or infrastructure works.
- f)Catch basin (Caja de registro): The infrastructure located at the edge of the gutter and ditches to channel water into underground pipes.
- g)Roadway (Calzada): Surface intended for vehicular traffic between the curbs, gutters, or drainage ditches and is part of the public road.
- h)Category: Classification of a taxpayer (contribuyente) according to the estimated waste they generate per week.
- i)Recovery center for recoverable waste (Centro de recuperación de residuos valorizables): A permanent site for the reception and temporary storage of waste for recovery, where recoverable materials can be weighed, classified, and separated according to their nature for subsequent commercialization.
- j)Collector (Colector): The infrastructure where several underground pipes converge, equipped with a manhole cover for inspecting the pipes.
- k)Composting (Compostaje): Technique that allows the aerobic decomposition of biodegradable organic matter in a controlled manner to achieve a product usable as a soil improver.
- l)Concessionaire (Concesionario): Individual or legal entity to whom, through an administrative legal act, the right is temporarily granted to take charge of the cleaning, collection, transport, treatment, recycling, and/or final disposal service of the ordinary waste of the Canton.
- m)Container: Receptacle intended for the temporary storage of ordinary solid waste.
- n)Taxpayer (Contribuyente): Owner or possessor of a property where the Municipality provides public services.
- o)Curb and gutter (Cordón y caño): Drain for the evacuation of rainwater from the roadway, situated parallel between the edge of the roadway and the sidewalk or green strip of the road.
- p)Final disposal: Orderly and definitive placement, distribution, and confinement of ordinary waste at a site designed for this purpose.
- q)Community facilities (Facilidades comunales): Public area designated for the installation of buildings for communal use, whether cultural, educational, health, security, or other purposes.
- r)Weighting factor (Factor de ponderación): Equivalent units, taking the domestic unit as a reference.
- s)Lot frontage (Frente de lote): The length of its front demarcation line. Distance the land has facing the access road.
- t)Generation source: Place where waste is generated.
- u)Generator: Individual or legal entity, public or private, that generates solid waste through the development of productive, rental or leasing, service, commercialization, or consumption processes that are under municipal jurisdiction.
- v)Comprehensive Solid Waste Management: An articulated and interrelated set of regulatory, operational, financial, administrative, educational, planning, monitoring, and evaluation actions for solid waste management, from its generation to final disposal.
- w)Waste manager (Gestor): Individual or legal entity, public or private, registered and authorized for the total or partial management of ordinary solid waste.
- x)Infrastructure: Any work for the development and proper functioning of a community such as: public roads (paths, highways, streets, malls), storm or sanitary drainage, aqueducts, electricity, signage, etc.
- y)Waste management (Manejo de residuos): Set of technical and operational activities of waste management that includes storage, collection, transport, recovery (valorización), treatment, and final disposal of ordinary, recoverable, and non-traditional solid waste generated in the Canton.
- z)Municipality: State legal entity with territorial jurisdiction over the canton of Aserrí. It is responsible for the administration of local services and interests, to promote the comprehensive development of the Canton in harmony with the national development plan.
aa) Licensee (Patentado): Individual or legal entity that acquires a municipal license to conduct lucrative activities.
bb) Municipal Plan for Comprehensive Solid Waste Management (Plan Municipal para la Gestión Integral de Residuos Sólidos, PMGIRS): Instrument that defines cantonal policy on the matter and will guide municipal actions on the topic within its area of competence.
- cc)Owner (Propietario): Individual or legal entity that exercises dominion over real property through a public document registered in the Public Registry.
dd) Possessor (Poseedor): Individual or legal entity that exercises dominion over a property without having a title registered in the Public Registry.
ee) Recycling (Reciclaje): Transformation of waste through different recovery processes that allow its economic and energy value to be restored, thus avoiding its final disposal, provided this restoration implies a saving of energy and raw materials without harm to health and the environment.
ff) Collection (Recolección): Action of collecting solid waste under municipal jurisdiction at generation sources or receptacles, in accordance with these regulations, to be transferred to transfer stations, treatment facilities, or final disposal.
gg) Selective collection (Recolección selectiva): Separate collection service for solid waste previously separated at the source that allows certain solid waste to be recovered.
hh) Sanitary landfill (Relleno sanitario): Engineering method for the final disposal of solid waste generated in the Canton.
- ii)Biodegradable waste: Solid or semi-solid waste, of animal or vegetable origin, that can be decomposed and utilized through composting and other technologies.
jj) Construction and demolition waste: Those solid wastes generated in tasks such as: the construction, reconstruction, repair, alteration, expansion, and demolition of buildings, and urbanization works of any nature, whether urban or rural.
kk) Solid waste: Solid or semi-solid material, post-consumption, which its generator or possessor must or needs to dispose of.
- ll)Non-recoverable solid waste: Waste that currently has no use or recovery value in the country.
mm) Ordinary solid waste: Waste of mainly residential origin or originating from any other commercial, service, industrial activity, cleaning of roads and public areas, which have characteristics similar to residential waste.
nn) Hazardous solid waste: Any waste that, due to its chemical reactivity and toxic, explosive, corrosive, radioactive, biological, infectious-contagious, and flammable characteristics, or due to its exposure time, may cause harm to health and the environment.
oo) Sharp-cutting solid waste: Any object with the capacity to penetrate and/or cut tissues, including medical-surgical instruments; laboratory articles, dental instruments, as well as general-use articles such as: light bulbs (all types), fluorescent tubes, all types of staples, metal and plastic straps.
pp) Recoverable solid waste: Waste that, due to its potential reuse value, can be recovered for recovery (valorización), such as glass, paper, plastic, metal, cardboard, tetrapak, elopak, electronics, and white goods (large appliances).
qq) Non-traditional waste: Those objects disposed of sporadically by their owners at the end of their useful life, which due to their size and weight are not suitable for ordinary collection.
rr) Waste separation: Procedure by which solid waste is prevented from being mixed at the generation source, allowing it to be disposed of separately for collection purposes.
ss) Municipal services: Set of solid waste management, road cleaning, green area maintenance, and storm drain cleaning services provided by the Municipality.
tt) Public service rate (Tasa del servicio público): Tax whose obligation is generated by the effective or potential provision of a public service, individualized to the taxpayer, and whose proceeds must not be destined for a purpose unrelated to the service, which is the reason for the obligation.
uu) Tariff (Tarifa): Name given to the mathematical expression representing the cost the taxpayer must pay for the effective or potential provision of the public service.
- vv)Treatment (Tratamiento): Transformation of waste or specific parts into new products or the change of characteristics, such as recycling, composting, mechanical-biological treatment, thermal treatment, among others.
ww) Users: Housing unit, licensee (patentado), state entity, or any other non-governmental organization to which municipal services are provided.
- xx)Housing unit (Unidad habitacional): Structure erected on a property where a family group cohabits.
yy) Unit served (Unidad servida): Commerce, institution, or residence to which the service is provided.
zz) Public road (Vía Pública): Any land of public domain and common use, which by provision of the administrative authority is destined for free transit in accordance with urban planning laws and regulations, and also includes land that has de facto been destined for public use.
aaa) Recovery (Valorización): Set of associated actions whose objective is to recover the value of waste for productive processes through the recovery of materials and/or energy utilization and the rational use of resources.
bbb) Green area (Zona verde): Unbuilt public land partially or totally covered with vegetation (grass, trees, or shrubs).
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