Terms Used In Nebraska Statutes > Nebraska Litter Reduction and Recycling Act

• Company: shall include any corporation, partnership, limited liability company, joint-stock company, joint venture, or association. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Council: shall mean the Environmental Quality Council. See Nebraska Statutes 81-1538
• Department: shall mean the Department of Environment and Energy. See Nebraska Statutes 81-1537
• Director: shall mean the Director of Environment and Energy. See Nebraska Statutes 81-1540
• Fund: shall mean the Nebraska Litter Reduction and Recycling Fund. See Nebraska Statutes 81-1539
• Gross proceeds: shall mean the total receipts from all sales less expenditures for the purchase of any item in this state for the purpose of recycling such item. See Nebraska Statutes 81-1548.04
• Litter: shall mean all waste material susceptible to being dropped, deposited, discarded, or otherwise disposed of by any person upon any property in the state, but not including the wastes of primary processes of farming or manufacturing. See Nebraska Statutes 81-1541
• Manufacturer: shall mean any person engaged in a business activity who has annual gross proceeds in this state of at least one hundred thousand dollars resulting from the sale of tangible personal property which the person has made, produced, manufactured, processed, or fabricated which is within any of the categories listed in section Nebraska Statutes 81-1542
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Person: shall mean any natural person, political subdivision, government agency, public or private corporation, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, association, firm, or individual proprietorship. See Nebraska Statutes 81-1543
• Person shall: include bodies politic and corporate, societies, communities, the public generally, individuals, partnerships, limited liability companies, joint-stock companies, and associations. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Process: shall mean a summons, subpoena, or notice to appear issued out of a court in the course of judicial proceedings. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Public place: shall mean any place or area in the state that is used or held out for use by the public, whether owned or operated by public or private interests. See Nebraska Statutes 81-1544
• Recycling: shall mean the process of separating, cleaning, treating, and reconstituting waste or other discarded materials for the purpose of recovering and reusing the resources contained therein. See Nebraska Statutes 81-1545
• Resource recovery: shall mean a system or process for the recovery of materials or energy from waste material. See Nebraska Statutes 81-1547
• Retailer: shall mean any person engaged in business who has annual gross proceeds in this state of at least one hundred thousand dollars resulting from the sales of tangible personal property for storage, use, or other consumption or from the business of making sales at auction of tangible personal property owned by the person or others for storage, use, or other consumption of any of the products, including byproducts, falling into the categories listed in section Nebraska Statutes 81-1548.02
• Source separation: shall mean separation by the public from their general refuse of recyclable material. See Nebraska Statutes 81-1548
• State: when applied to different states of the United States shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories organized by Congress. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Tangible personal property: shall mean all tangible personal property except:

  (1) Gas, electricity, and water delivered through mains, lines, pipes, or channels to purchasers. See Nebraska Statutes 81-1548.03

• Wholesaler: shall mean any person engaged in business who has annual gross proceeds in this state of at least one hundred thousand dollars resulting from sales at the wholesale level to retailers, other merchants, or industrial, institutional, and commercial users of any tangible personal property falling into any of the categories listed in section Nebraska Statutes 81-1548.01
• Year: shall mean calendar year. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801