CHAPTER 2. Definitions

Chapter 2 added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 6.

§§ 117625–117780 · 42 sections

§ 117625 Unless the context requires otherwise, the definitions in this article govern the construction of this part.
§ 117630 (a) “Biohazard bag” means a disposable film bag used to contain medical waste. Notwithstanding subdivision (b) of Section 117605, the film bags that are used…
§ 117636 “Chemotherapeutic agent” means an agent that kills or prevents the reproduction of malignant cells. Chemotherapeutic agent excludes anti-inflammatory and…
§ 117637 “Common carrier” means either of the following: (a) A person or company that has a United States Department of Transportation number issued by the Federal…
§ 117640 “Common storage facility” means any designated accumulation area that is onsite and is used by small quantity generators otherwise operating independently for…
§ 117645 “Container” means the rigid container in which the medical waste is placed prior to transporting for purposes of storage or treatment.
§ 117647 “Empty” means a condition achieved when tubing, a container, or inner liner removed from a container that previously contained liquid or solid material,…
§ 117650 “Enforcement agency” means the department or the local agency administering this part.
§ 117655 “Enforcement officer” means the director, or agents or registered environmental health specialists appointed by the director, and all local health officers,…
§ 117657 “Fund” means the Medical Waste Management Fund created pursuant to Section 117885.
§ 117660 “Hazardous waste hauler” means a person registered as a hazardous waste hauler pursuant to Article 6 (commencing with Section 25160) and Article 6.5…
§ 117662 “Health care professional” means any person licensed or certified pursuant to Division 2 (commencing with Section 500) of the Business and Professions Code;…
§ 117665 “Highly communicable diseases” means diseases, such as those caused by organisms classified by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as risk…
§ 117670 “Household waste” means any material, including garbage, trash, and sanitary wastes in septic tanks and medical waste, that is derived from households, farms,…
§ 117671 “Home-generated sharps waste” means hypodermic needles, pen needles, intravenous needles, lancets, and other devices that are used to penetrate the skin for…
§ 117672 “Industrial hygienist” means a person who has met the educational requirements of an industrial hygiene certification organization, as defined in subdivision…
§ 117675 “Infectious agent” means a type of microorganism, bacteria, mold, parasite, or virus, including, but not limited to, organisms managed as Biosafety Level II,…
§ 117680 “Large quantity generator” means a medical waste generator, other than a trauma scene waste management practitioner, that generates 200 or more pounds of…
§ 117685 “Local agency” means the local health department, as defined in Section 101185, or the local comprehensive environmental agency established in accordance with…
§ 117690 (a) “Medical waste” means any biohazardous, pathology, pharmaceutical, or trace chemotherapy waste not regulated by the federal Resource Conservation and…
§ 117695 Medical waste that has been treated in accordance with the provisions of the Medical Waste Management Act, Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 118215), and that…
§ 117700 Medical waste does not include any of the following: (a) Waste generated in food processing or biotechnology that does not contain an infectious agent, as…
§ 117705 “Medical waste generator” means any person whose act or process produces medical waste and includes, but is not limited to, a provider of health care, as…
§ 117710 “Medical waste management plan” means a document that is completed by generators of medical waste that describes how the medical waste generated at their…
§ 117715 “Medical waste permit” means a permit issued by the enforcement agency to a medical waste treatment facility.
§ 117720 “Medical waste registration” means a registration issued by the enforcement agency to a medical waste generator.
§ 117725 (a) “Medical waste treatment facility” means all land and structures, and other appurtenances or improvements on the land under the control of the treatment…
§ 117730 “Mixed waste” means mixtures of medical and nonmedical waste. Mixed waste is medical waste, except for all of the following: (a) Medical waste and hazardous…
§ 117735 “Offsite” means any location that is not onsite.
§ 117740 (a) “Onsite” means a medical waste treatment facility, or common storage facility on the same or adjacent property as the generator of the medical waste being…
§ 117742 “Parent organization” means an organization that employs or contracts with health care professionals who provide health care services at a location other than…
§ 117745 “Person” means an individual, trust, firm, joint stock company, business concern, partnership, association, limited liability company, and corporation,…
§ 117747 (a) “Pharmaceutical” means a prescription or over-the-counter human or veterinary drug, including, but not limited to, a drug as defined in Section 109925 of…
§ 117750 (a) “Sharps container” means a rigid puncture-resistant container used in patient care or research activities meeting the standards of, and receiving approval…
§ 117760 “Small quantity generator” means a medical waste generator, other than a trauma scene waste management practitioner, that generates less than 200 pounds per…
§ 117765 “Storage” means the holding of medical wastes, in compliance with the Medical Waste Management Act, including Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 118275), at a…
§ 117770 “Tracking document” means the medical waste tracking document specified in Section 118040.
§ 117771 “Shipping document” means the medical waste shipping document required by the United States Department of Transportation pursuant to Section 172.200 et seq. of…
§ 117775 (a) “Transfer station” means an offsite location permitted by the department where medical waste is loaded, unloaded, stored, or consolidated by a registered…
§ 117776 (a) “Trauma scene” means a location soiled by, or contaminated with, human blood, human body fluids, or other residues from the scene of a serious human…
§ 117778 “Trauma scene waste management practitioner” means a person who undertakes as a commercial activity the removal of human blood, human body fluids, and other…
§ 117780 “Treatment” means any method, technique, or process designed to change or destroy the biological character or composition of any medical waste so as to…