As used in this chapter:
(a) "Garbage" means decayed or decaying animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food.
(b) "Handbill" means any written, printed or photocopied matter, circular, door hanger, flyer, leaflet, pamphlet, paper, booklet or any other printed or otherwise reproduced original or copies of any matter or literature advertising, directing attention to or promoting the interest of any merchandise, product, commodity, business, person, presentation or any other activity.
(c) "Litter" means all rubbish, refuse, waste material, garbage, offal, paper, glass, cans, bottles, trash, debris or other foreign substances.
(d) "Newspaper" means any newspaper of general circulation as defined by State law and any periodical or magazine published not less than four issues per year and sold to the public.
(e) "Nuisance" means anything that annoys, injures or endangers the safety, health, comfort or repose of the public; offends public decency; interferes with, obstructs or renders dangerous any street, highway, navigable lake or stream; or in any way renders the public insecure in life or property. Public nuisances include, but are not limited to, whatever is prohibited by these Codified Ordinances.
(f) "Park" means a park, reservation, playground, beach, recreation center or any other public area in the City owned or used by the City and devoted to active or passive recreation.
(g) "Private premises" means any dwelling, house, building or other structure, designed or used either wholly or in part for private residential purposes, whether inhabited or temporarily or continuously uninhabited or vacant, and including any yard, grounds, walk, driveway, porch, steps, vestibule or mailbox belonging or appurtenant to such dwelling, house, building or other structure.
(h) "Public or private property or water" includes, but is not limited to, any of the following:
(1) The right-of-way of a road or highway, a body of water or watercourse, or the shore or beach of the body of water or watercourse, including the ice above the water;
(2) A park, playground, building, refuge or conservation or recreation area; and
(3) Residential or farm properties or timberlands.
(i) "Refuse" means all decayed and non-decayed solid wastes, except body wastes, including garbage, rubbish, ashes, street cleanings, dead animals, abandoned vehicles and solid market and industrial wastes.
(j) "Rubbish" means non-decayed solid wastes consisting of both combustible and noncombustible wastes, including, but not limited to, paper, wrappings, cigarettes, cardboard, tin cans, yard clippings, leaves, wood, glass, bedding, crockery and similar materials.
(k) "Vehicle" means every device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn on a highway, except devices which are moved exclusively by human power.
(l) "Vessel" means a vessel registered under the Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act, Act 451 of the Public Acts of 1994, Part 803, being MCL 324.80301 to 324.80322.
(Ord. 22-95. Passed 7-18-95; Ord. 03-2021. Passed 3-2-21.)