§ 4-31 Definitions.
RCNY § 4-31
When used in this subchapter: Administrative Code. "Administrative Code" shall mean the Administrative Code of the City of New York. Commissioner. "Commissioner" shall mean the Commissioner of Sanitation or his/her representative. Department. "Department" shall mean the Department of Sanitation. Hospital. "Hospital" shall mean a facility or institution engaged in providing medical or medical and surgical services primarily to in-patients by or under the supervision of a physician on a twenty-four hour basis with provisions for admission or treatment of persons in need of emergency care and with an organized medical staff and nursing service, including facilities providing services relating to particular diseases, injuries, conditions or deformities. This term shall not include a public health center, diagnostic center, treatment center, out-patient lodge, dispensary and laboratory or central service facility serving more than one institution. Intermodal solid waste container facility. "Intermodal solid waste container facility" shall mean a facility or premises served by rail or vessel at which intermodal containers are transferred from transport vehicle to transport vehicle for the purpose of consolidating intermodal containers for shipment by rail or vessel to an authorized disposal or treatment facility, where the contents of each container remain in their closed containers during the transfer between transport vehicles, and storage remains incidental to transport at the location where the containers are consolidated, and that is required to register with the Department of Sanitation pursuant to §§ 16-130 and 16-131 of the Administrative Code of the City of New York and Subchapter D of 16 RCNY Chapter 4. Lawfully operating. "Lawfully operating" shall mean operating pursuant to written authorization by the Department of Sanitation, including, but not limited to, a putrescible or non-putrescible solid waste transfer station permit, temporary permit or conditional permit, a consent order, or a compliance agreement. M1 district. "M1 district" shall mean any manufacturing district designated as M1 in the Zoning Resolution. M2 district. "M2 district" shall mean any manufacturing district designated as M2 in the Zoning Resolution. M3 district. "M3 district" shall mean any manufacturing district designated as M3 in the Zoning Resolution. Non-putrescible solid waste transfer station. "Non-putrescible solid waste transfer station" shall mean any solid waste management facility required to obtain a permit from the Department of Sanitation pursuant to §§ 16-130 and 16-131 of the Administrative Code of the City of New York and Subchapter A of 16 RCNY Chapter 4. Such term shall include construction and demolition debris and fill material transfer stations. Public park. "Public park" shall mean any publicly-owned park, playground, beach, parkway, or roadway within the jurisdiction and control of the Commissioner of Parks and Recreation of the City of New York, except for Bronx River Parkway lands abutting an active railroad line and Park strips or malls in a street the roadways of which are not within the jurisdiction and control of the Commissioner of Parks and Recreation, or any publicly-owned park or beach within the jurisdiction and control of the federal or New York State government. Putrescible solid waste transfer station. "Putrescible solid waste transfer station" shall mean any solid waste management facility required to obtain a permit from the Department of Sanitation pursuant to §§ 16-130 and 16-131 of the Administrative Code of the City of New York and Subchapter B of 16 RCNY Chapter 4. Residential district. "Residential district" shall mean a residence district, as such term is defined in the Zoning Resolution but shall not include land used as a cemetery. School. "School" shall mean: (a) an institution providing full-time day instruction and a course of study that meets the requirements of §§ 3204, 3205, and 3210 of the New York State Education Law; or (b) a nursery school or kindergarten: (1) whose annual session does not exceed the school session for full-time day schools prescribed in § 3204 of the New York State Education Law; and (2) which is operated by the Board of Education, any established religious organization as part of an elementary school, or under a permit issued pursuant to 24 RCNY Health Code § 47.05. Site boundary. "Site boundary" shall mean the property boundaries of a transfer station as identified in the site plan filed with the Department. Transfer Station. "Transfer Station" shall mean any Putrescible solid waste transfer station or Non-putrescible solid waste transfer station. Zoning Resolution. "Zoning Resolution" shall mean the Zoning Resolution of the City of New York. (Amended City Record 3/9/2018, eff. 4/8/2018)
