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§ 365.011. DEFINITIONS.  In this subchapter:                                
		(1)  "Approved solid waste site" means:                                       
			(A)  a solid waste site permitted or registered by 
the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission;
			(B)  a solid waste site licensed by a county under 
Chapter 361;  or        
			(C)  a designated collection area for ultimate 
disposal at a permitted or licensed municipal solid waste site.
		(2)  "Boat" means a vehicle, including a barge, 
airboat, motorboat, or sailboat, used for transportation on water.
		(3)  "Commercial purpose" means the purpose of economic 
gain.               
		(4)  "Commercial vehicle" means a vehicle that is 
operated by a person for a commercial purpose or that is owned by a 
business or commercial enterprise.
		(5)  "Dispose" and "dump" mean to discharge, deposit, 
inject, spill, leak, or place litter on or into land or water.
		(6)  "Litter" means:                                                          
			(A)  decayable waste from a public or private 
establishment, residence, or restaurant, including animal and 
vegetable waste material from a market or storage facility handling 
or storing produce or other food products, or the handling, 
preparation, cooking, or consumption of food, but not including 
sewage, body wastes, or industrial by-products;  or
			(B)  nondecayable solid waste, except ashes, that 
consists of:             
				(i)  combustible waste material, including 
paper, rags, cartons, wood, excelsior, furniture, rubber, 
plastics, yard trimmings, leaves, or similar materials;
				(ii)  noncombustible waste material, 
including glass, crockery, tin or aluminum cans, metal furniture, 
and similar materials that do not burn at ordinary incinerator 
temperatures of 1800 degrees Fahrenheit or less;  and
				(iii)  discarded or worn-out manufactured 
materials and machinery, including motor vehicles and parts of 
motor vehicles, tires, aircraft, farm implements, building or 
construction materials, appliances, and scrap metal.
		(7)  "Motor vehicle" has the meaning assigned by 
Section 541.201, Transportation Code.
		(8)  "Public highway" means the entire width between 
property lines of a road, street, way, thoroughfare, bridge, public 
beach, or park in this state, not privately owned or controlled, if 
any part of the road, street, way, thoroughfare, bridge, public 
beach, or park:
			(A)  is opened to the public for vehicular 
traffic;                        
			(B)  is used as a public recreational area;  or                              
			(C)  is under the state's legislative 
jurisdiction through its police power.
		(9)  "Solid waste" has the meaning assigned by Section 
361.003.             

Amended by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., 1st C.S., ch. 3, § 8.161, eff. 
Sept. 1, 1991;  Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 740, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 
1993;  Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 76, § 11.111, eff. Sept. 1, 
1995;  Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 165, § 30.206, eff. Sept. 1, 
1997;  Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 286, § 1, eff. May 26, 1997.

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