For the purposes of this regulation, the following is understood by:
1. Sidewalk: Section of the right-of-way, located at the ends of the roadway for pedestrian traffic.
2. Stormwater: Water from rainfall that runs off superficially through gutters or sewers.
3. Wastewater: Domestic wastewater and which is the result of people's daily activities. It requires channeling systems and treatment according to compliance with current regulations. It is also called blackwater or sewage.
4. Mayor's Office: The highest-ranking administrative body, which holds the status of head of the departments, supervises, organizes, and coordinates the functioning of the Municipality.
5. Storm Sewer: System that collects and disposes only of stormwater. Composed of drains, manholes, headwalls, pipes, and others.
6. Storage: Action of temporarily retaining waste while it is delivered to the collection service, processed for its utilization or change of its characteristics, or disposed of.
7. Real Property: Any land with or without constructions or infrastructure works.
8. Manhole: A box within the sewer system for the purpose of allowing inspection and cleaning of the drain and channeling water to underground pipes.
9. Roadway: Surface intended for vehicular traffic between the curbs, gutters, or drainage ditches and is part of the public road.
10. Category: Placement of a taxpayer according to the estimated waste they generate.
11. Recovery Center for Valorizable Waste: A permanent site for the reception and temporary storage of waste for valorization, where recoverable materials can be weighed, classified, and separated according to their nature for subsequent commercialization. Also known as a collection center.
12. Collector: The infrastructure into which several underground pipes converge, provided with a manhole cover in order to inspect the pipes.
13. Compost: Result of the decomposition and stabilization by the action of microorganisms of organic waste through composting processes or anaerobic fermentation.
14. Composting: Technique that allows the aerobic decomposition of biodegradable organic matter in a controlled manner to achieve a usable product as a soil improver.
15. Municipal Council: The highest body of the Municipality, which is composed of a deliberative body made up of council members and district councilors.
16. Container: Receptacle intended for the temporary storage of non-hazardous waste of domestic, commercial, or industrial origin.
17. Collective Container: A larger volume receptacle intended for the temporary storage of the waste from a group of users, located at a common point for them.
18. Taxpayer: Owner or possessor of a property where the Municipality provides public services.
19. Curb and Gutter: Drain for the evacuation of stormwater from the roadway, which is located parallel to the edge of the roadway and the sidewalk or green strip of the road.
20. Effective Cost: For the purposes of this regulation, the effective cost of the work is the sum of the cost of materials, labor, the use of equipment as well as its depreciation, contingencies, administrative and financial expenses, cost of collection, disposal, and treatment of solid waste if required, as well as the other direct and indirect costs related to the work, plus ten percent (10%) of utility for development.
21. Body of Water: Any spring, river, stream, permanent or non-permanent creek, lake, lagoon, natural or artificial reservoir, peat bog or, freshwater swamp.
22. Final Disposal: Orderly and definitive placement, distribution, and confinement of ordinary waste in a site designed for this purpose.
23. Community Facilities: Public area planned for the installation of buildings for community use, whether cultural, educational, health, security, or another purpose.
24. Weighting Factor: Value established using the domestic or housing unit as a reference.
25. Generation Source: Place where waste is generated.
26. Official: The natural person who, in exchange for remuneration, provides the Municipality with their material, intellectual, or both types of services, in a personal, subordinate manner and on behalf of another, by virtue of a valid and effective act of appointment, through an express or implicit, verbal or written, individual or collective employment contract.
27. Generator: Natural or legal person, public or private, who generates waste, through the development of production, service, commercialization, or consumption processes that are of municipal competence.
28. Integrated Waste Management (GIR): An articulated and interrelated set of regulatory, operational, financial, administrative, educational, planning, monitoring, and evaluation actions for waste management, from its generation to final disposal.
29. Authorized Manager: Natural or legal person, public or private, in charge of the total or partial management of solid waste and duly authorized for this purpose by the Ministry of Health and this municipality.
30. Large Generator: Natural or legal person who produces large quantities of waste. Includes apartment buildings, condominiums, supermarkets, commercial premises, shopping centers, educational centers, medical centers, public and private institutions.
31. Incentives: Refers to the benefit granted to generators who contribute to correct management, demonstrating minimization and the application of the hierarchy in the integrated management of waste.
32. Infrastructure: Any work for the development and proper functioning of a community, such as: public roads (paths, highways, streets, tree-lined walks), storm or sanitary sewer systems, aqueducts, electricity, signage, etc.
33. Inspector: Official competent for surveillance, prevention, surveying, and inspection both in the field and technologically of possible infractions and sanctions to the laws and this regulation.
34. Leachate: Liquid that is formed by the reaction, dragging, or percolation of the materials contained in the waste and that contains dissolved or suspended substances that can infiltrate the soils or run off outside the sites where solid waste is deposited and that can lead to contamination of the soil and bodies of water.
35. Waste Management: Set of technical and operational activities of waste management that includes the storage, collection, transportation, valorization, treatment, and final disposal of ordinary, valorizable, and non-traditional solid waste generated in the Canton.
36. Municipality: State legal person with territorial jurisdiction over the Canton. It is responsible for the administration of local services and interests, with the aim of promoting the integral development of the Canton in harmony with the national development plan.
37. Licensee: Natural or legal person who holds a commercial license to carry out lucrative activities.
38. Municipal Plan for Integrated Waste Management (PMGIR): Instrument that defines cantonal policy on the matter and will guide municipal and/or cantonal actions on the subject within the area of its competence. It is the result of a planning process that is preferably prepared in a participatory manner by the municipality, incorporating the various actors of the Canton.
39. Possessor: Natural or legal person who exercises dominion over a property without having a registered title in the Public Registry.
40. Cleaner Production: Integrated preventive strategy applied to production processes, products, and services, in order to increase efficiency and reduce risks for humans and the environment.
41. Owner: Natural or legal person who exercises dominion over real property through a public deed registered in the Public Registry.
42. PyMeS: Small and Medium Enterprises.
43. Recycling: Transformation of waste through different valorization processes that allow recovering its economic and energy value, thus avoiding its final disposal, as long as this recovery implies a saving of energy and raw materials without prejudice to health and the environment.
44. Collection: Action of collecting waste of municipal competence at the generation sources or receptacles, as established in this regulation, to be transferred to transfer stations, treatment facilities, or final disposal.
45. Private Collection: Any collection process carried out directly between a generator and a waste manager within the territory of the Canton, without the direct participation of the Municipality in the process.
46. Selective Collection: Separate collection service for waste previously separated at the source that allows certain waste to be valorized.
47. Sanitary Landfill: Engineering method for the final disposal of waste generated in the Canton in accordance with the Regulation on Sanitary Landfills.
48. Waste: Solid, semi-solid, liquid, or gaseous material, whose generator or possessor must or needs to dispose of, and which can or must be valorized or treated responsibly or, failing that, managed by appropriate final disposal systems.
49. Ordinary Waste: Waste of mainly household origin or coming from any other commercial, service, industrial activity, cleaning of roads and public areas, which has characteristics similar to household waste.
50. Sharps Waste: Any object capable of penetrating and/or cutting tissues, among them, surgical medical instruments; laboratory articles, dental instruments, as well as general use articles: such as light bulbs (all types), fluorescent tubes, and all types of staples and metal and plastic bands.
51. Solid Waste: Solid or semi-solid, post-consumer material whose generator or possessor must or needs to dispose of.
52. Waste Separation: Procedure by which waste is prevented from being mixed at the generating source, allowing it to be disposed of separately for collection purposes.
53. Separation at the Source: Procedure by which waste is prevented from being mixed at the generating source, to facilitate the utilization of valorizable materials.
54. Waste Management Service: The management of waste of municipal competence mainly includes the storage, collection, sweeping, and cleaning of roads and public spaces, as well as the transportation, transfer, treatment, and final disposal of waste.
55. Municipal Services: Set of solid waste management services, road cleaning, maintenance of green areas, and cleaning of storm sewer systems provided by the Municipality.
56. Collective Storage System: A defined and enclosed area, intended for the temporary collective storage of solid waste, awaiting the collection service.
57. Taxable Person: Any natural or legal person obligated to comply with the tax obligations, in the capacity of taxpayer, either as the owner or possessor of a land to which the service is provided.
58. Rate: The designation given to the mathematical expression representing the cost that the taxpayer must pay for the effective or potential provision of the public service.
59. Public Service Fee: Tax whose obligation is generated by the effective or potential provision of a public service, individualized on the taxpayer and whose proceeds must not have a destination unrelated to the service, which is the reason for the obligation.
60. Treatment: Transformation of waste or specific parts into new products or to change its characteristics, such as recycling, composting, mechanical-biological treatment, thermal treatment, among others.
61. Domestic or Housing Unit: Structure built on a property where a waste generator lives.
62. Served Unit: Business, institution, or residence to which the service is provided.
63. User: Has the category of user for the purposes of providing the services regulated herein, any natural or legal person who is affected or benefited by the GIR services.
64. Valorization: Set of associated actions whose objective is to give added value to waste for production processes through the recovery of materials and/or energy utilization and the rational use of resources.
65. Open Dump: Site without prior preparation, where waste is deposited, without technique or through very rudimentary techniques, and in which adequate control is not exercised.
66. Public Road: Any land of public domain and common use, which by provision of the administrative authority is destined for free transit, in accordance with the laws and urban planning regulations, also includes that land that in fact has been destined for public use.
67. Green Area: Public unbuilt land partially or totally covered with vegetation (grass, trees, or shrubs).
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