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NEW ITEMS
Meeting of May 1, 2007
PROPOSED ORDINANCE AMENDMENT continued
ITEM #3 cont’d
Air contaminant means and includes, but is not limited to the following: dust, soot, mist, smoke,
fumes, fly ash, vapor, corrosive gas, or other discharge, and any other airborne material or substance that
is offensive, nauseous, irritating, or noxious to human health and welfare or to other animal life and/or
plant life.
Air contaminant source means any and all sources of emission capable of emitting any air
contaminant, whether privately or publicly owned or operated. Without limiting the generality of the
foregoing, this term includes all types of businesses, commercial and industrial plants, works, shops and
stores, heating power plants and stations, buildings and other structures of all types, including single and
multiple family residences, apartment buildings, office buildings, hotels, restaurants, schools, hospitals,
churches, vehicles, garages, vending and service locations and stations, railroad locomotives, ships, boats
and other waterborne craft, portable fuel-burning equipment, incinerators of all types, both indoor and
outdoor, refuse dumps and piles, and all stacks and other chimney outlets and any other openings from
any of the foregoing.
Air pollution means presence in the outdoor atmosphere of one or more air contaminants in sufficient
quantities and of such characteristics and duration as to be injurious to human, plant or animal life or to
property, or which unreasonably interfere with the enjoyment of life and property.
Air Pollution Episode Action Plan. See Episode Action Plan.
Air quality standard means ambient air quality goal, established by Federal, State, or local
governmental agencies, for the purpose of protecting the public health and welfare.
ANSI means the American National Standards Institute or its successor bodies.
Architectural coating means any coating used for residential or commercial buildings or their
appurtenances, or for industrial buildings which is site applied.
ARI means the Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute or its successor bodies.
ASHRAE means the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air Conditioning engineers or
its successor bodies.
ASME means the American Society of Mechanical Engineers or its successor bodies.
ASTM means the American Society of Testing Materials or its successor bodies.
Ashes shall include cinders, fly ash, or any other solid material resulting from combustion, and may
include unburned combustibles.
Atmosphere means all spaces outside of buildings, stacks or exterior ducts.
Atmospheric pollution means the discharging from stacks, chimneys, exhausts, vents, ducts,
openings, buildings, structures, premises, open fires, portable boilers, vehicles, processes, or any other
source, of any smoke, soot, fly ash, dust, cinders, dirt, noxious or obnoxious acids, fumes, oxides, gases,
vapors, odors, toxic or radioactive substances, noise, waste, particulate, solid, liquid or gaseous matter, or
any other materials in such place, manner or concentration as to cause injury, detriment, nuisance, or
annoyance to the public, or to endanger the health, comfort, repose, safety or welfare of the public, or in
such a manner as to cause or have a natural tendency to cause injury or damage to business or property.
Atmospheric pollution source means any and all sources of emission of any type of atmospheric
pollution, whether privately or publicly owned or operated. Without limiting the generality of the
foregoing, this term includes all types of business, commercial and industrial plants, works, shops and
stores, heating power plants and stations, buildings and other structures of all types, including single and
multiple family residences, apartment buildings, office buildings, hotels, restaurants, schools, hospitals,
churches, vehicles, garages, vending and service locations or stations, railroad locomotives, ships, boats
and other waterborne craft, portable fuel-burning equipment, incinerators of all types both indoor and
outdoor, refuse dumps and piles, and all stacks and other chimney outlets and any other openings from
any of the foregoing.
Authorized representative means any individual, firm or corporation designated by a person who shall
be given authority to act for such "person" in all matters pertaining to the County Department of
Environmental Control. Such authorization shall be transmitted to such Department in writing.
Automobile and/or truck sales lot means any land area used or intended to be used for the display
and/or sale of passenger automobiles and/or commercial vehicles.
Boat shall include, but shall not be limited to all ships, vessels, boats, floating equipment, floating
structures, or any device operating, existing, anchored, or moored upon the surface of the water.
British Thermal Unit means the quantity of heat required to raise one pound of water from 60 degrees
Fahrenheit to 61 degrees Fahrenheit (abbreviated B.T.U. or BTU).
Building fires. The term, "a new fire being built," means the period during which a fresh fire is being
started and does not mean the process of replenishing an existing fuel bed with additional fuel.
Carbonaceous fuel means any form of combustible matter, either solid, liquid, vapor, or gas,
consisting primarily of carbon containing compounds in either fixed or volatile form which are burned
primarily for their heat content.
Chimney shall include, but shall not be limited to any conduit, duct, vent, or flue, arranged to conduct
any products of combustion into the atmosphere. It does not include breeching.