For the purposes of this regulation, the following shall be understood as:
- a)Sidewalk (Acera): Part of the right-of-way, normally located at its edges, reserved for pedestrian transit.
- b)Real estate (Bien inmueble): Any land with or without buildings or infrastructure works.
- c)Canton (Cantón): refers to the canton of Hojancha.
- d)Category (Categoría): Classification of a taxpayer according to the estimated waste they generate per month. For this purpose, the generation, composition, and categorization studies of the waste produced in the Hojancha canton will be used as a basis, or those most favorable to satisfying the public interest.
- 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 has the obligation to pay the respective fees.
- g)Curb and gutter (Cordón y caño): Drain for the evacuation of rainwater coming 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): The last stage of the solid waste management process in which they are disposed of definitively and sanitarily.
- 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 fall under municipal jurisdiction.
- l)Comprehensive 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 lucrative activities.
- o)Waste management (Manejo de residuos): 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.
- p)Municipality (Municipalidad): State legal person with territorial jurisdiction over the canton of Hojancha. 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)Plot (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 develop lucrative activities.
- s)Owner (Propietario): Natural or legal person who exercises absolute or partial domain or ownership over a thing; comprising the rights of possession, usufruct, transformation and alienation, defense, and exclusion.
- t)Possessor (Poseedor): Natural or legal person who exercises control over real estate without having a title registered in the Public Registry. The right of possession consists of the power corresponding to a person to have under their power and will the thing that is the object of the right.
- u)Collection (Recolección): Action of collecting solid waste of municipal jurisdiction at generation sources or containers, according to what is established in this regulation, to be transferred to transfer stations, treatment facilities, or final disposal.
- v)Regulation (Reglamento): A legal norm of a general nature issued by the public Administration and with a value subordinate to the Law.
- w)Solid waste (Residuo sólido): Solid or semi-solid, post-consumer material whose generator or possessor must or requires to dispose of it.
- x)Solid waste requiring special handling (Residuo sólido de manejo especial): Those that, due to their composition, transport needs, storage conditions, forms of use or recovery value, or a combination thereof, imply significant risks to health and systematic degradation of ecosystem quality, and therefore must exit 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, road and public area cleaning activity, which 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 that, due to its exposure time, may cause damage to health and the environment.
aa) Valorizable solid waste (Residuo sólido valorizable): Waste that, due to its potential reuse value, can be recovered for its valorization, such as organics, glass, paper, plastic, metal, cardboard, Tetra Pak, electronics, white goods, and others.
bb) Non-traditional waste (Residuos no tradicionales): Those objects discarded by their owners sporadically, 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 through which solid waste is prevented from mixing at the generating source, allowing it to be disposed of separately, for collection purposes.
ee) Taxpayer (Sujeto pasivo): Any natural or legal person obliged to comply with tax obligations, whether as a taxpayer or responsible party.
ff) Service fee (Tasa del servicio): A tax (tributo) whose obligation has as its generating event the effective or potential provision of a service, individualized for the taxpayer or user, and whose proceeds must not have a destination unrelated to the service.
gg) Rate (Tarifa): Name given to the mathematical expression representing the cost that the taxpayer must pay for the effective or potential provision of the public service, in proportion to the quantity generated monthly 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 into new products or the change of their 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 in order to obtain resources for the fulfillment of its purposes.
jj) User (Usuario): Any natural or legal person, public or private, who is affected by or benefited from the actions implemented through the municipal services contemplated in this regulation.