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ORDINANCE NO. 3067
AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE MUNICIPAL CODE PERTAIN-
ING TO DISPOSAL OF INFECTIOUS WASTE MATERIAL; PRO-
VIDING A PENALTY AND ESTABLISHING AN EFFECTIVE
DATE
BE IT ENACTED, by the City Council for the City of Ames, Iowa:
Section One. The Municipal Code of the city of Ames, Iowa, shall be
amended by adding a new section as follows:
"Sec. 10.22. INFECTIOUS WASTE.
(1) Definitions: As used in this section, unless the context
otherwise requires:
(a) Infectious means containing pathogens with suffi-
cient virulence and quantity so that exposure to an
infectious agent by a susceptible host could result
in an infectious disease when the infectious agent
is improperly treated, stored, transplanted, or
disposed.
(b) Infectious waste means waste, which is infectious,
including but not limited to contaminated sharps,
cultures, and stocks of infectious agents, blood and
blood products, pathological waste, and contaminated
animal carcasses from hospitals or research labora-
tories.
(c) Contaminated sharps means all discarded sharp
items derived from patient care in medical, re-
search, or industrial facilities including glass
vials containing materials defined as infectious,
hypodermic needles, scalpel blades, and pasteu
pipettes.
(d) Cultures and stocks of infectious agents means
specimen cultures collected from medical and patho-
logical laboratories, cultures and stocks of infec-
tious agents from research and industrial laborato-
ries, wastes from the production of biological
agents, discarded live and attenuated vaccines, and
culture dishes and devices used to transfer, inocu-
late, or mix cultures.
(e) Human blood and blood products means human se-
rum, plasma, other blood components, bulk blood,
or containerized blood in quantities greater than
twenty milliliters.
(f) Pathological waste means human tissues and body
parts that are removed during surgery or autopsy.
(g) Contaminated animal carcasses means waste includ-
ing carcasses, body parts, and bedding of animals
that were exposed to infectious agents during re-
search, production of biologicals, or testing of
pharmaceuticals.
(2) Prohibition. Knowingly putting or disposing of infec-
tious waste in such place or container as will
foreseeably result in the infectious waste being in the
solid waste material delivered to the solid waste dispos-
al facilities of the City of Ames is prohibited."
Section Two. Violation of this ordinance shall be a municipal infrac-
tion Code punishable as provided for in Section 1.9 ofthe Ames Municipal
Section Three. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from
and after its passage and publication as required by law.
Passed this 5t_h _ day of December
1989.
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