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Solid waste. All putrescible and non-putrescible wastes, including, but not limited to, garbage, rubbish, refuse, ashes, paper and cardboard, useless or discarded commercial, industrial, demolition and construction materials, manure, vegetable or animal solid and semisolid materials, dead animals and infectious waste as defined in ORS 459.386. Excluding discarded or abandoned vehicles or parts thereof; sewage, sludge, septic tank and cesspool pumpings or other sludge; discarded home or industrial appliances; hazardous wastes as defined in ORS 466.005; materials used as ~rtilizers or for other productive purposes; recyclabte materials which have been source separated lbr collection. Solid waste collection license. A license which allows the holder to provide collection of solid waste, yard debris, or recyclables within the city limits of Eugene. Solid waste collector. The person who provides solid waste, yard debris, or recyclable collection service on a regular, recurring schedule. Source separate. To separate recyclable materials from solid waste by the person who last uses the recyclable material. Vehicle. Any motorized equipment used to collect and/or transport solid waste or recyclable. Yard debris. Includes grass clippings, leaves, hedge trimmings, branches that are less than four inches in diameter and fit inside the yard debris cart, and similar vegetative waste but does not include dirt, rocks, metal, or other non-vegetative solid waste. 3~245 Solid Wa Debris and Recycling - License Required. (1) No person shall collect residential recyclables, yard debris or solid waste within the corporate hmits of the city without first obtaining a solid waste collection license for such activity in accordance with the rules adopted by the city manager under section 2.019 of this code. (2) The following persons do not require a solid waste collection license: (a) A civic, community, benevolent or charitable non-profit organization that collects, transports and markets source separated materials for resource recovery, but only for the purpose of raising funds for a charitable, civic or benevolent activity. (b) A person who transports solid waste which such person produces direclly ro a disposal site authorized by the Oregon Departmer~t of Environmental Quality or to a recycling or resource recovery facility. (c) A property owner who transports solid waste left by a tenant upon such owner's property; however, an owner of an apartment, condominium or mobile home complex of more than five traits may not provide solid waste collection service for corr~pensation for tenants on a regular or continuing basis without first obtaining a license lbr solid waste collection. (d) A contractor employed to demolish, construct or remodel a building or structure, including, but not limited to, land clearing operations and construction wastes, When collecting or transporting wastes created in connection with such Ordinance - 3