For the purposes of this regulation, the following definitions apply:
- a)Sidewalk (Acera): Part of the right-of-way, normally located at its edges, reserved for pedestrian traffic.
- b)Real Property (Bien inmueble): Any land with or without buildings or infrastructure works.
- c)Canton: refers to the Canton of Santa Cruz.
- d)Service Contracts: For the contracting of technical or professional services, by individuals or legal entities, the Administration must follow administrative contracting procedures.
- e)Agreements: The Municipality of Santa Cruz may use or dispose of its assets through all types of acts or contracts permitted by the Municipal Code and the Law on Administrative Contracting, provided they are suitable for fulfilling its purposes.
- f)Taxpayer (Contribuyente): Individual or legal entity that receives municipal services and has the obligation to pay the respective fees.
- g)Curb and Gutter (Cordón y caño): Drain for the evacuation of stormwater from the roadway, located 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 waste is disposed of definitively and sanitarily.
- i)Weighting Factor (Factor de ponderación): The range within which a user is placed according to factors multiplied by the residential and institutional fee, to achieve an equitable distribution of service costs.
- j)Generation Source (Fuente de generación): Place where waste is generated.
- k)Generator (Generador): Individual or legal entity, public or private, that produces waste when carrying out productive, agricultural, service, residential, commercial, or consumption processes.
- 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 solid waste management, from its generation to its reuse, treatment, or final disposal.
- m)Waste Manager (Gestor): Individual or legal entity, public or private, registered and authorized in accordance with the provisions of the Integrated Waste Management Law No. 8839 and its regulation for the total or partial management of ordinary solid waste.
- n)Commercial License (Licencia comercial): Municipal license to engage in lucrative activities.
- o)Waste Management (Manejo de residuos): Set of technical and operational activities of waste management that includes storage, collection, transportation, recovery, treatment, and final disposal of ordinary, organic, recoverable, and non-traditional solid waste generated in the Canton.
- p)Municipality: State legal entity with territorial jurisdiction over the Canton of Santa Cruz. It is responsible for the administration of local services and interests, with the purpose of promoting the integral 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 (Licenciatario): Individual or legal entity that acquires a municipal license to carry out lucrative activities.
- s)Owner (Propietario): Individual or legal entity that exercises dominion or absolute or partial ownership over a thing; includes the rights of possession, usufruct, transformation, and alienation, defense, and exclusion.
- t)Possessor (Poseedor): Individual or legal entity that exercises dominion over a property without having a title registered in the Public Registry. The right of possession consists of the faculty corresponding to a person to have under their power and will the thing that is the object of the right.
- u)Collection: The action of collecting solid waste under municipal jurisdiction at the generation sources or containers, in accordance with this regulation, for transportation to transfer stations, treatment facilities, or final disposal sites.
- v)Regulation: 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 material that its generator or possessor must or needs to dispose of, and which can or must be responsibly recovered and treated or, failing that, be managed by adequate final disposal systems.
- x)Special Management Waste (Residuo de manejo especial): Waste that, due to its composition, transportation needs, storage conditions, forms of use, or recovery value, or a combination thereof, implies significant risks to health and systematic degradation of ecosystem quality, therefore requiring separation from the normal stream of ordinary waste.
- y)Ordinary Waste (Residuo ordinario): Waste of mainly domestic origin or coming from any other commercial, service, industrial, road and public area cleaning activity, having characteristics similar to domestic 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) Recovery (Valorización): A set of associated actions whose objective is to recover the value of waste for productive processes and the protection of health and the environment.
bb) Non-Traditional Waste: Voluminous objects sporadically discarded by their owners at the end of their useful life, which, due to their size and weight, are not suitable for ordinary collection.
- cc)Base Salary (Salario base): Amount of the base salary defined by the Taxpayer Service Directorate of the Ministry of Finance.
dd) Waste Separation (Separación de residuos): A procedure by which waste is prevented from mixing at the generation source, to facilitate the utilization of recoverable materials and avoid its final disposal.
ee) Taxable Person (Sujeto pasivo): Any individual or legal entity obligated to comply with tax obligations, whether in the capacity of taxpayer or responsible person.
ff) Service Fee (Tasa del servicio): Tax whose obligation arises from the effective or potential provision of the service, and whose proceeds must not have a purpose unrelated to the service.
gg) Rate (Tarifa): Name given to the mathematical expression that represents the cost to be paid by the taxpayer for the effective or potential provision of the public service.
hh) Treatment: Transformation of waste or specific parts into new products, or modification of its characteristics, such as recycling, composting, mechanical-biological treatment, thermal treatment, among others.
- ii)Tax (Tributo): Payments in money (taxes, fees, and special contributions) that the State, in the exercise of its sovereign power, demands with the purpose of obtaining resources to fulfill its purposes.
- ii)Served Unit (Unidad Servida): Term used in the Ordinary Waste Collection and Public Road Cleaning services. A served unit is considered to be sites of direct provision on the public road and those that connect to it, as well as sites where there is a potential provision of the service.
· The served unit for the Ordinary Waste Collection service corresponds to the dwelling, local, shop, warehouse, construction, or similar located on the property (predio). There may be more than one served unit on the same property, or several properties sharing a served unit.
· The served unit for the Public Road Cleaning service corresponds to the linear meter of the property over which the service is provided.
kk) User: Any individual or legal entity, public or private, that is affected or benefited by the actions implemented from the municipal services contemplated in this regulation.