[Added 7-7-1992 by L.L. No. 8-1992]
As used herein, the following terms shall have
the meanings indicated:
Offices of physicians or dentists, veterinary clinics, medical
testing laboratories, hospitals, abortion clinics, health-care facilities
and any other establishment which generates medical waste or infectious
medical waste.
All solid waste generated by a medical facility, including
but not limited to tubing, tongue depressors, cotton swabs, medical
gloves, surgical gowns or other articles worn during surgery, table
paper, bandages, Band-Aids, gauze, needles and syringes, scalpel blades,
pathological wastes, liquids, throat cultures and similar waste material.
This term shall not include office waste, food waste and other solid
waste which is unrelated to any medical use.
All medical waste which consists of needles and syringes,
pathological wastes, liquids in excess of 20 cubic centimeters, throat
cultures and similar waste.
All medical waste which does not constitute infectious medical
waste.
A.Â
Each medical facility shall exclude all medical waste
from the solid waste to be collected as part of the regular solid
waste collection service within the Village of Hempstead. The operator
of each medical facility shall be responsible at its own cost and
expense to make separate contractual arrangements for the collection
and disposal of all medical waste in a lawful manner, which may require
separate arrangements for infectious medical waste and noninfectious
medical waste.
B.Â
The foregoing exclusion of medical waste from all
other solid waste shall not apply to waste generated by an individual
residential household, including but not limited to diapers, pill
vials and bandages; provided, however, that it shall be unlawful for
medical waste from a medical facility to be included with any solid
waste placed for collection at a residence or any other location as
part of the regular solid waste collection service within the Village
of Hempstead.
The collection of nonmedical waste from a medical
facility shall be provided in accordance with the applicable solid
waste collection service provided by the Village of Hempstead; provided,
however, that as a condition of such collection of nonmedical solid
waste, the Village of Hempstead may require the operator of a medical
facility to provide proof satisfactory to the Village of Hempstead
that separate contractual arrangements have been made with a licensed
transporter for the collection and disposal to a lawful disposal site
of all medical waste from that medical facility and that no medical
waste will be included with the nonmedical solid waste to be collected
by the Village of Hempstead.
