§ 13-3. Hazardous materials and pollutants.
(a)
The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
Hazardous material shall mean a substance or material in a quantity and form which may pose an unreasonable risk to health, and safety of property when transported, stored, manufactured, disposed of, dumped or otherwise introduced into or on the land, waters or air in the county. "Hazardous materials" includes explosives, radioactive materials, etiologic agents, flammable liquids and solids, combustible liquids or solids, poisons, oxidizing or corrosive materials, and compressed gases. The following are expected, when stored or transported according to law:
Gasoline, kerosene, fuel oil and petroleum products, including propane gas or liquefied petroleum gas.
Provided that such excepted substances shall not be stored in quantities in excess of twenty-five thousand (25,000) gallons, and no additional quantities of propane gas may be stored within five (5) miles of an existing excepted substance storage area, except in quantities not exceeding one thousand (1,000) gallons.
Polluting material shall mean any substance or material which renders oysters, shellfish, clams, shrimp, or fish unfit for human consumption, and any substance, material or organism not defined in this section as a hazardous material, which causes disease, materially depletes water dissolved oxygen, damages property, or injures livestock, pets or wildlife. It shall include, but not be limited to, untreated human waste and materials from septic tanks and portable toilets.
(b)
This section is adopted to promote the health, safety and welfare of the people of the county.
(c)
It shall be unlawful for any person to transport, store, manufacture, dispose of, dump or, by any means whatever, introduce into the land, water, or air in the county any hazardous material or any polluting material or substance, except as provided or excepted in this section.
(d)
It shall be unlawful for any person to introduce polluting materials into the lands or waters of the county, except to place such materials into a treatment plant properly designed for the disposal of same, and which is capable of treating or otherwise disposing of such materials so as to render them nonpolluting.
(Ord. No. 80-1, 4-1-80)
State law reference
Hazardous substances, F.S. § 501.061 et seq.; transportation of hazardous materials, F.S. § 316.302; pollutant discharge prevention and removal, F.S. Ch. 376; liquid fuels, F.S. Ch. 525 et seq.; environmental control, F.S. Ch. 403.