§ 6.60.010. Definitions.

For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:

"Air pollution" means the presence in the outdoor atmosphere of one or more contaminants in quantities or characteristics and of duration such as to be injurious to human, plant or animal life or to property, or which unreasonably interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life and property.

"Contaminants" means any extraneous material, such as, but not necessarily limited to, dust, fumes, gas, mist, odor, smoke, vapor or any combination thereof.

"Employee" means any person who handles inedible portions of animals or fowl for rendering purposes, or who is engaged in the rendering process, or who handles or transports materials or products thereof, or who is employed in a room in which any part of the rendering operation takes place.

"Equipment and utensils" means knives, cleavers, choppers, grinders, presses, cookers, conveyors, drums, washers, containers or other implements or vehicles used in the rendering process or in the storage and transportation of materials and products.

"Offal" means the inedible portions of animals, fish or poultry handled in an abattoir or rendering plant. This term includes tankage from rendering operations, hair, horn and hoof shells, bones, paunch contents, manure and similar material.

"Reduction" means any heating process, including rendering, cooking, drying, dehydrating, digesting, evaporating and protein concentrating.

"Rendering plant" means any establishment producing grease, tallow, meat and bone meal byproducts, either in cake or ground form, feather meal or tankage from the inedible portion of animals or fowl, or processing in whole or in part dead stock, heads, bones, blood, offal, butcher shop fats, packing house material, meat trimmings, used grease or any other nonedible portions of animals or fowl for protein fats or other products designated for commercial use.

(Prior code § 20-1-202)