For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
PERSON. Any individual, corporation, company, firm, partnership, association, trust, or other legal entity however constituted or organized.
REFUSE. Tree trimmings, junked building and roofing materials, manufacturing waste, rocks, dirt, and other waste material not defined as solid waste or trash.
SOLID WASTE. All putrescible and nonputrescible refuse in solid or semi-solid form including, but not limited to, garbage, refuse, rubbish, ashes or incinerator residue, street refuse, dead animals, demolition wastes, construction wastes, and solid or semi-solid commercial and industrial wastes or hazardous wastes including explosives, pathological wastes, chemical wastes, herbicides, and pesticide wastes.
SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM. The entire process of storage, collection transportation, processing, and burying solid wastes at or in a site approved by the State Department of Health.
TRASH. Paper, rags, containers of paper, tin cans, yard and house sweepings, and all other household waste (but not tree trimmings, building and manufacturing waste, sewage, rocks, raw dirt, rainwater, and other liquid refuse) properly disposable through the sanitary sewers of the town.
(Prior Code, § 20-50)