Section 2. - Definitions.

As used in this act, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context: (1) The term "area affected by this act" means all area within the general services district of the consolidated government of the City of Jacksonville as more specifically described in section 2.01 , chapter 67-1320, Laws of Florida. This area includes the Cities of Jacksonville, Atlantic Beach, Jacksonville Beach, Neptune Beach, and the Town of Baldwin. (2) The term "cost of system" means the cost of planning, designing, acquiring, constructing, financing, operating, maintaining, and disposing of the components and facilities of a unified solid waste disposal and resource recovery system and includes, without limitation, the cost of all labor and materials, the cost of all lands, property, rights, easements, and franchises acquired which are deemed necessary therefor, the cost of all machinery and equipment, all costs relating to injury and damage claims relating to any part of the system, any financing charges, the funding of any reasonably required debt service or renewal and replacement fund or other reserves, any interest prior to and during construction and for a reasonable period after construction, any engineering and legal expenses, the cost of any plans, specifications, surveys, or estimates of construction costs and of revenues, any other expenses necessary or incident to determining the feasibility or practicability of such acquisition or construction, any administrative expenses, and such other expenses as may be necessary or incident to the financing herein authorized, to such acquisition or construction, and to the placing of the system or any portion thereof in operation. (3) The term "city" means the consolidated City of Jacksonville, the area and territorial limits of which are more particularly identified in section 2.01 , chapter 67-1320, Laws of Florida. (4) The term "legislative body of the city" means the city council of the Consolidated City of Jacksonville, exercising county power throughout the general services district, as more specifically described in Articles 1 and 3, chapter 67-1320, Laws of Florida. (5) The term "hazardous waste" means waste, or a combination of wastes, which because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics may cause, or significantly contribute to, an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible or incapacitating reversible illness or may pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly transported, disposed of, stored, treated, or otherwise managed. (6) The term "person" means an individual, partnership, joint venture, private or public service company, agency, department, or entity of the United States Government or of any state government, or any other agency, department, or entity, public or private, however organized. (7) The term "resource recovery" means the process by which materials, excluding radioactive materials, which still have useful physical or chemical properties after serving a specific purpose are reused or recycled for the same or other purposes, including use as an energy source. (8) The term "solid waste" means garbage, refuse, and other discarded solid materials, including solid waste materials resulting from industrial, commercial, or agricultural operations, governmental operations, and from community activities, but does not include solids or dissolved materials in domestic sewage or other significant pollutants in water resources, such as silt, dissolved or suspended solids in industrial waste water effluent, dissolved materials in irrigation return flows, other common water pollutants or special wastes, or any byproducts, the sale or reuse of which is intended by the person from whose process they resulted. (9) The term "solid waste disposal and resource recovery system" means any and all facilities used and useful in the collection, transportation, and disposal of solid waste, including, but not limited to, volume-reduction plants, sanitary landfills or other disposal means, and resource recovery facilities, including steam production and electrical generating facilities using solid waste as fuel; however, the term shall not include any and all facilities used or useful in the collection of solid waste if the city elects not to have such facilities be part of the solid waste disposal and resource recovery system. The term also includes transfer stations to the extent such facilities are provided or operated pursuant to carrying out the provisions of this act. (10) The term "special wastes" means any wastes that require extraordinary management. They include, but are not limited to, abandoned automobiles, inoperative and discarded refrigerators, ranges, washers, water heaters, and other similar domestic and commercial appliances, used tires, waste oil, sludges, dead animals, septic tank pumpings, and infectious and hazardous wastes. (11) The term "transfer station" means a facility where solid waste is placed before being transferred to a solid waste processing or disposal facility. (12) The term "volume reduction plant," means but is not limited to, incinerators, pulverizers, compactors, shredding and baling plants, composting plants, resource recovery plants, and other plants which accept and process solid waste for recycling or disposal. (Laws of Fla., Ch. 89-512, § 1)