For the purposes of this regulation, the following shall be understood by:
- a)Sidewalk (Acera): Part of the right-of-way, normally located at its edges, which is reserved for pedestrian traffic.
- b)Real property (Bien inmueble): Any land with or without constructions or infrastructure works.
- c)Canton (Cantón): refers to the canton of San Rafael de Heredia.
- d)Category (Categoría): Classification of a taxpayer according to the estimated waste they generate per month. For this purpose, the studies of generation, composition, and categorization of the waste produced in the canton San Rafael de Heredia, or those most favorable to satisfying the public interest, will be used as a basis.
- e)Service contract (Contrato de servicios): For the contracting of technical or professional services, by natural or legal persons, the Administration must follow administrative contracting procedures.
- f)Taxpayer (Contribuyente): Natural or legal person who receives municipal services and who has the obligation to pay the respective fees.
- g)Curb and gutter (Cordón y caño): Drain for the evacuation of rainwater from the roadway, which is situated parallel between the edge of the roadway and the sidewalk or green strip of the road.
- h)Final disposal (Disposición final): Last stage of the solid waste management process in which they are disposed of in a definitive and sanitary manner.
- i)Weighting factor (Factor de ponderación): The range in which a user is placed according to the factors multiplied by the residential and institutional fee, to obtain an equitable distribution of service costs.
- j)Generation source (Fuente de generación): Place where waste is generated.
- k)Generator (Generador): Natural or legal person, public or private, that generates solid waste, through the development of production, rental or leasing, service, commercialization, or consumption processes that are under municipal jurisdiction.
- l)Integrated Solid Waste Management (Gestión Integral de Residuos Sólidos, GIRS): An articulated and interrelated set of regulatory, operational, financial, administrative, educational, planning, monitoring, and evaluation actions for the management of solid waste, from its generation to final disposal.
- m)Manager (Gestor): Natural or legal person, public or private, registered and authorized for the total or partial management of ordinary solid waste.
- n)Commercial license (Licencia comercial): municipal license to carry out for-profit activities.
- o)Waste management (Manejo de residuos): Set of technical and operational activities of waste management that includes storage, collection, transportation, valorization, treatment, and final disposal of ordinary, valorizable, and non-traditional solid waste generated in the Canton.
- p)Municipality (Municipalidad): State legal entity with territorial jurisdiction over the canton of San Rafael de Heredia. It is responsible for the administration of local services and interests, in order to promote the comprehensive development of the Canton in harmony with the national development plan.
- q)Parcel (Parcela): the cadastral unit represented by a portion of land, which constitutes a complete physical unit, and which is delimited by a line that, without interruption, returns to its point of origin.
- r)Licensee (Patentado): Natural or legal person who acquires a municipal license to carry out for-profit activities.
- s)Owner (Propietario): Natural or legal person who exercises absolute or partial domain or ownership over a thing; includes the rights of possession, usufruct, transformation and alienation, defense and exclusion.
- t)Possessor (Poseedor): natural or legal person who exercises domain over a property without having a title registered in the Public Registry. The right of possession consists of the power of a person to have the object of the right under their power and will.
- u)Collection (Recolección): Action of collecting solid waste under municipal jurisdiction at generation sources or containers, according to the provisions of this regulation, to be transferred to transfer stations, treatment facilities, or final disposal.
- v)Regulation (Reglamento): legal norm of a general nature issued by the public Administration and with value subordinate to the Law.
- w)Solid waste (Residuo sólido): Post-consumer solid or semi-solid material that its generator or possessor must or requires to dispose of.
- x)Special management solid waste (Residuo sólido de manejo especial): Those that, due to their composition, transportation needs, storage conditions, forms of use or recovery value, or a combination thereof, imply significant health risks and systematic degradation of the ecosystem quality, and therefore require removal from the normal stream of ordinary waste.
- y)Ordinary solid waste (Residuo sólido ordinario): Waste of mainly household origin or that comes from any other commercial, service, industrial activity, cleaning of roads and public areas, that has characteristics similar to household waste.
- z)Hazardous solid waste (Residuo sólido peligroso): Any waste that, due to its chemical reactivity and its toxic, explosive, corrosive, radioactive, biological, infectious-contagious, and flammable characteristics, or due to its exposure time, may cause harm to health and the environment.
aa) Valorizable solid waste (Residuo sólido valorizable): Waste that, due to its potential reuse value, can be recovered for valorization, such as organics, glass, paper, plastic, metal, cardboard, tetrapak, electronics, white goods, and others.
bb) Non-traditional waste (Residuos no tradicionales): Those objects sporadically discarded by their owners, having reached the end of their useful life, which, due to their size and weight, are not suitable for ordinary collection.
- cc)Urban Service (Servicio Urbano). Any service provided by the Municipality.
dd) Waste separation (Separación de residuos): Procedure by which solid waste is prevented from being mixed from the generating source, allowing it to be disposed of separately for collection purposes.
ee) Taxpayer/Subject of the tax (Sujeto pasivo): any natural or legal person obliged to fulfill tax obligations, whether as a taxpayer or as a responsible party.
ff) Service fee (Tasa del servicio): Tax whose obligation is generated by the effective or potential provision of the service, individualized for the taxpayer or user, and whose proceeds must not be destined for a purpose unrelated to the service.
gg) Rate (Tarifa): Name given to the mathematical expression representing the cost the taxpayer must pay for the effective or potential provision of the public service in proportion to the monthly quantity generated by unit of weight or linear meters of property frontage, as applicable, and/or those determined by the municipality.
hh) Treatment (Tratamiento): Transformation of waste or specific parts thereof into new products or change of characteristics, such as recycling, composting, mechanical biological treatment, thermal treatment, among others.
- ii)Tax (Tributo): Payments in money (taxes, fees, and special contributions), which the State, in the exercise of its sovereign power, demands for the purpose of obtaining resources to fulfill its aims.
jj) User (Usuario): Any natural or legal person, public or private, who is affected or benefited by the actions implemented from the municipal services contemplated in this regulation.