For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
GARBAGE. Food waste, ashes, rubbish, refuse, trash, waste material, cans, bottles, rags, waste paper, and paper products, crockery, and other ordinary household or commercial refuse.
GARDEN AND OTHER TRASH. All leaves, hedge and tree trimmings, limbs, garden weeds, grass cuttings, garden debris, brush, and all other useless or unwanted material of whatsoever nature not defined as garbage above, except materials that accumulate as a result of major building remodeling or alterations or trees or tree stumps, tree root wads, stone, earth or industrial waste.
PUBLIC WAYS. The entire width between the boundary lines of every street or highway within the city when any part thereof is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular traffic, and shall include the unpaved portions of such public way between the paved roadway in such public way and the boundary lines of the private property abutting such public way.
(1996 Code, § 11-1.01)