14.12.230 Hospital wastes.
A. Hospitals, clinics, offices of medical doctors and convalescent homes:
1. May discharge, through a city-approved grinder installation with inlet size and design features suitable for its intended use and so constructed that all particles pass through a maximum three-eighth inch opening, wastes of the following categories:
a. Wet organic kitchen wastes from food preparation and disposal but excluding all paper and plastic items;
b. Disposable hypodermic needles, syringes and associated articles following their use;
c. Infectious wastes, defined as:
i. Laboratory and surgical operating room wastes except as excluded in subdivision (2)(b) of this subsection,
ii. Wastes from outpatient areas and emergency rooms similar to those included in subdivision (i) of this subsection,
iii. Equipment, instruments, utensils and other materials of a disposable nature that may harbor or transmit pathogenic organisms and that are used in the rooms of patients having a suspected or diagnosed communicable disease which by the nature of the disease is required to be isolated by public health agencies;
2. Shall not discharge to the sewer by any means:
a. Solid wastes generated in the rooms of patients who are not isolated because of a suspected or diagnosed communicable disease;
b. Recognizable portions of the human anatomy;
c. Wastes excluded by other provisions of this chapter except as specifically permitted in subsection (A)(1) of this section;
d. All solid wastes not included in subsection (A)(1) of this section.
B. Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to limit the authority of the health officer of the county to define wastes as being infectious and, with the concurrence of the city engineer, to require that they be discharged to the sewer. (Ord. 4740 § 1, 2013; Ord. 3667 § 1, 1995)