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• 7 <br /> shall mean the employees, equipment and facilities of all County <br /> departments, boards, councils, institutions and commissions <br /> directed to take part in any inspection, investigation or <br /> restoration under this Ordinance; and in addition, it shall include <br /> all directed volunteer personnel, equipment and facilities <br /> contributed by, or obtained from, volunteer persons or agencies and <br /> all municipal personnel, equipment and facilities contributed by, <br /> or obtained from, any municipality adopting this Ordinance pursuant <br /> to Section 1 .4 . <br /> "Having control over oil or other hazardous substances" shall <br /> mean, but shall not be limited to, any person, using, transferring, <br /> storing, or transporting oil or other hazardous substances <br /> immediately prior to a discharge of such oil or hazardous <br /> substances onto the land or into the waters of the County, and <br /> specifically shall include carriers and bailees of such oil or <br /> other hazardous substances. <br /> "Hazardous substance" shall mean any substance, other than <br /> oil, which when discharged in any quantity may present an imminent <br /> and substantial danger to the public health, safety or welfare, as <br /> designated pursuant to N. C. Gen. Stat . § 143-215 . 77A, as amended <br /> or constitutes a public health nuisance . <br /> "Oil,, shall mean oil of any kind and in any form, including, <br /> but specifically not limited to, petroleum, crude oil, diesel oil, <br /> fuel oil, gasoline, lubrication oil, oil refuse, oil mixed with <br /> other waste, oil sludge, petroleum related products or by-products, <br /> and all other liquid hydrocarbons, regardless of specific gravity, <br /> 5 1 <br />