When used herein the following terms shall have the following meanings:
(1) COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENT. Any food service establishment, retail food store, limited food service establishment, limited retail food store, food processing establishment, or other place of business where food is prepared or sold or offered for sale, or any establishment that slaughters, fabricates, bones or processes animals, poultry, or fish, whether or not required by law to be licensed or permitted by an agency of the State of Alabama.
(2) DEPARTMENT. The Alabama Department of Environmental Management as established by Section 22-22A-4.
(3) DISPOSE. To discard or carry away, whether personally or by and through a contractor, and whether for the purposes of recycling, reuse, or reprocessing or for ultimate elimination.
(4) INEDIBLE ANIMAL BY-PRODUCT. Any bone, fat, offal, carcass, blood, skin, hide, tallow, lard, feather, horn, hoof, or any other solid by-product derived from any animal, poultry, or fish, as part of the operation of a commercial establishment, but not to include, post-consumer waste from retail food service establishments or commercial kitchens.
(5) LICENSED, PERMITTED, OR REGISTERED RENDERER. An establishment licensed, permitted, or registered by the Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries to receive, transport, and process inedible animal by-products and waste cooking grease.
(6) TRANSPORT. To carry or move from one location to another by way of public or private roads, whether personally or by and through a contractor.
(7) VEHICLE. Every form of conveyance except those which by their very nature can have no application in, on, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, except devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks, provided, however, that for the purposes of this article, a bicycle or a ridden animal shall be deemed a vehicle.
(8) VIRGIN COOKING GREASE. Grease, fat, or oil, whether derived from plant or animal or any combination thereof, intended for use in cooking or preparation of food for animal or human consumption that has not been previously used.
(9) WASTE COOKING GREASE. Grease, fat, or oil, whether derived from plant or animal or any combination thereof, previously used in the cooking or preparation of food for animal or human consumption and is no longer suitable for that use, but not to include interceptor or trap grease.
Last modified: May 3, 2021