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 coming from rainfall that runs off superficially through ditches or through sewers.
3. Wastewater: Domestic residual water resulting from the daily activities of people. It requires channeling and treatment systems in compliance with current regulations. It is also called black water or sewage.
4. Municipal Mayor's Office: Administrative body of the highest hierarchy, which holds the condition of head of the departments, supervises, organizes, and coordinates the operation of the Municipality.
5. Storm Sewer System: System that collects and disposes solely of stormwater.
Composed of catch basins, manholes, outfalls, 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: 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 comprised between the curbs, gutters, or drainage ditches and is part of the public thoroughfare.
10. Category: Classification of a taxpayer according to the estimation of waste they generate.
11. Recovery Center for Valorizable Waste: It is a permanent site for the reception and temporary storage of waste for its valorization, where recoverable materials can be weighed, classified, and separated according to their nature for their subsequent commercialization. It is also known as a collection center.
12. Collector: it is the infrastructure where several underground pipes converge, equipped with a manhole cover for the purpose of inspecting 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 product usable as a soil improver.
15. Municipal Council: Highest body of the Municipality, which is composed of a deliberative body made up of council members and district representatives.
16. Container: Receptacle intended for the temporary storage of non-hazardous waste of domestic, commercial, or industrial origin.
17. Collective Container: Receptacle of larger volume intended for the temporary storage of 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 coming from the roadway, which is located parallel between the edge of the roadway and the sidewalk or green strip of the thoroughfare.
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 a ten percent (10%) utility for development.
21. Water Body: 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 communal use, whether cultural, educational, health, security, or another that has this 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 productive, service, commercialization, or consumption processes that are of municipal competence.
28. Integral Management of Waste (GIR): Articulated and interrelated set of regulatory, operational, financial, administrative, educational, planning, monitoring, and evaluation actions for the management of waste, from its generation to its 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 that produces large quantities of waste. It 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 integral management of waste.
32. Infrastructure: All work for the development and proper functioning of a community, such as: public thoroughfares (roads, highways, streets, boulevards), storm or sanitary sewer systems, aqueducts, electricity, signage, etc.
33. Inspector: Official competent for surveillance, prevention, inspection, and technological inspection of possible infractions and sanctions of the laws and this regulation.
34. Leachate: Liquid that is formed by the reaction, entrainment, or filtration of the materials contained in the waste and that contains, in dissolved or suspended form, substances that may infiltrate soils or run off outside the sites where solid waste is deposited and that can cause contamination of the soil and water bodies.
35. Waste Management: Set of technical and operational activities of waste management that includes storage, collection, transport, 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. Patent Holder: Natural or legal person who holds a commercial license to exercise lucrative activities.
38. Municipal Plan for the Integral Management of Waste (PMGIR): Instrument that defines the cantonal policy on the matter and will guide municipal and/or cantonal actions on the topic within its area of competence. It is the result of a planning process that is preferably carried out in a participatory manner by the municipality, incorporating the diverse actors of the Canton.
39. Possessor: Natural or legal person who exercises dominion over a property without having a title registered in the Public Registry.
40. Cleaner Production: Preventive strategy integrated into productive processes, products, and services, in order to increase efficiency and reduce risks for human beings and the environment.
41. Owner: Natural or legal person who exercises dominion over real property through a public document registered in the Public Registry.
42. PyMeS: Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises.
43. Recycling: transformation of waste through different valorization processes that allow for the restitution of its economic and energy value, thus avoiding its final disposal, provided this restitution 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, in accordance with the provisions of 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 it, and which can or must be valorized or treated responsibly or, failing that, be managed by adequate final disposal systems.
49. Ordinary Waste: Waste of mainly household origin or that comes from any other commercial, service, industrial activity, cleaning of thoroughfares and public areas, which has characteristics similar to household waste.
50. Sharps Waste: Any object capable of penetrating and/or cutting tissues, including 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 it.
52. Waste Separation: Procedure by which waste is prevented from being mixed from the generating source, allowing for it to be disposed of separately, for collection purposes.
53. Separation at the Source: Procedure by which waste is prevented from being mixed from the generating source, to facilitate the utilization of valorizable materials.
54. Waste Management Service: The management of waste of municipal competence includes mainly storage, collection, sweeping and cleaning of thoroughfares and public spaces, as well as transport, transfer, treatment, and final disposal of waste.
55. Municipal Services: Set of services for solid waste management, cleaning of thoroughfares, maintenance of green zones, and cleaning of the storm sewer system provided by the Municipality.
56. Collective Storage System: It is 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 obliged to comply with tax obligations, in the capacity of taxpayer, either as the owner or possessor of a land to which the service is provided.
58. Fee: Denomination given to the mathematical expression that represents the cost that the taxpayer must pay for the effective or potential provision of the public service.
59. Public Service Rate: Tax whose obligation has as its generating event the effective or potential provision of a public service, individualized for the taxpayer, and whose revenue must not have a destination unrelated to the service that is the reason for the obligation.
60. Treatment: Transformation of waste or specific parts into new products or to change 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 dwells.
62. Served Unit: Commerce, institution, or residence to which the service is provided.
63. User: The category of user, for the purposes of the provision of the services herein regulated, applies to any natural and 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 productive processes through the recovery of materials and/or energy utilization and the rational use of resources.
65. Dump: Site without prior preparation, where waste is deposited, without technique or through very rudimentary techniques, and where adequate control is not exercised.
66. Public Thoroughfare: Any land of public domain and common use, which by disposition of the administrative authority is destined for free transit, in accordance with the laws and regulations of urban planning; it also includes that land which, in fact, has been destined for public use.
67. Green Zone: Public land not built upon, partially or totally covered with vegetation (grass, trees, or shrubs).