"Sanctioned hauler" means any or all of the following:

•    The city;

•    Franchised hauler;

•    Franchised recycler;

•    Anyone who provides solid waste handling services to a customer who is exempt from mandatory service, such as state facilities;

•    Service providers or retailers incidentally hauling any solid waste consisting of by-products of their primary services, such as:

    º    Construction contractors or subcontractors (such as carpenters, masons, roofers, electricians and plumbers), hauling solid waste such as construction and demolition debris that they generate in the course of providing construction or demolition services, but not construction and demolition waste they merely gather or collect from a construction and demolition site for transport;

    º    Hired gardeners, hauling yard waste they generate, including through trimming trees, shrubs and bushes; cutting grass; and pulling weeds; and

    º    Stores selling furnishings retail, hauling solid waste such as used carpet, cabinets, mattresses, home appliances and furniture that they remove following delivery of comparable new merchandise;

•    Anyone hauling dead animals, bones, meat scraps or food waste resulting from food processing plants for tallow or fertilizer; and

•    Anyone else authorized by the city.