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q. Residential Lands – public lands intended to or devoted to the construction andestablishment of dwellings.r. Zoning – refers to the delineation or division of a Municipality into a functionalzone where only specific land uses are allowed. It directs and regulates the useof all in the community in accordance with an approved or adopted land use planfor the municipality. It regulates land uses and prescribes limitations onstructures and infrastructures thereon.s. Zoning Ordinance – an ordinance which classifies, delineates, defines, anddesignates different land uses in the municipality, requiring fees and imposingpenalties.SECTION 15. Terms Used in the Solid Waste Management. <strong>The</strong> following termsare conceptually and or operationally defined as follows:a. Garbage – anything that is rubbish, trash, and or coming from food waste thathas the tendency to rapidly decompose and produce offensive odor.b. Refuse – anything discarded that is worthless and waste, be it soft or hardmaterials such as bottles, broken glass, tin cans, waste papers, discardedporcelain wares, pieces of metal and other wrapping and packaging materials.c. Non-Biodegradable Objects – anything that is not capable of decaying and notabsorbed by the environment such as cellophane, plastics, rubber, metal and thelikes.d. Other Waste Materialsi. Ash – residue or an end product of the process of burning certain materialthat contributes to air pollution.ii. Dead Animals – lifeless animals such as pets, poultry, swine, rodents and soforth that are not properly disposed and become wastes that adds to air pollution andcaused diseases.iii. Manure – excrement of an animals, which can be generally used for fertilizer.iv. Discarded Building Materials – waste building materials such as nipa andcoconut shingles, sawali and other materials, which cannot be utilized anymore.SECTION 16. Aquatic Resource Management. <strong>The</strong> following terms areoperationally and or conceptually defined:a. Aquatic Pollution. <strong>The</strong> introduction by man or machine into the grounds orwaters, of substance or energy which results or is likely to result in suchdeleterious effects as to harm living and non-living aquatic resources and posingas hazard to human health. It may be a direct or indirect action, or in or out ofparticular local government jurisdictions. It includes dumping or disposal of wasteor other matter, carbonaceous materials or substances, oil, coal, coal tar,lampblack, aniline, asphalt, bitumen, mining and mill tailings, molasses, garbage,refuse, and other noxious or harmful liquid and gaseous or solid substances.b. Aquatic Resources. Living resources of the aquatic environment includingfishes, aquatic flora and fauna, corals, seals, and mangroves.c. Fish corral or “baklad”. A stationary weir or trap devised to intercept andcapture fish consisting of rows of stakes or bamboo, palma brava, or plasticnetting and other materials fenced with split bamboo matting or wire matting withone or more enclosures, usually with an easy entrance but with difficult exit, andwith or without leaders to direct the fish into a catching chambers or purse.242