For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ACCESSORY STRUCTURES. Such buildings or structures as garages, carports, bath houses, cabanas, gazebos, sheds, storage buildings, guard houses, fall-out shelters, and similar accessory buildings or structures.
APPLIANCES/WHITE GOODS. All types of non- refrigerated appliances such as washers, dryers, dishwashers, water heaters, microwave ovens, stoves, cooking units, washing units, or any apparatus that is designed to be used within the home.
APPROVED CONTAINERS. A refuse container to be used by a customer that is provided exclusively by the City Utilities Sanitation Department which from this point forward to be referred to as a Toter.
ASHES. Residue from fires, whether produced by fires used for cooking heating buildings, grills, fireplaces, trash burners or any other fires.
BOARD. The City Board of Public Works and Safety.
COMMERCIAL BUSINESS STRUCTURES. Any structure in which there is located any non-residential activity, including but not limited to commercial business, retail business, and not-for-profit activity.
CURBSIDE COLLECTION. Collection in a standard container, as defined herein, at or near the street or alley adjacent to the premises served or at any other location as the city may direct.
CUSTODIAN. An owner of record of real estate, or his or her agent or assignee, who uses a standard container.
GARBAGE. Includes every rejected food waste, accumulation of animal, fruit or vegetable matter used or intended for food, or that attends the preparation, use, cooking, dealing in or storing of meat, fish, fowl, fruit or vegetable at any residence, club, restaurant, hotel, nursing home or other public or private place. Also includes human or animal bodily waste and includes dead animals or fish or portions thereof.
NON-CONFORMING CONTAINERS. Any containers not provided by the City Utilities Sanitation Department.
RECYCLABLES. Paper, cartons, boxes, aluminum cans, metal cans, aluminum, glass, bottles and plastics. RECYCLABLES allowed by the Lawrence County Recycling Depot are picked up by the City Utilities Sanitation Department. Items subject to change include newspapers (must be dry), cardboard (must be broke down), glass (clear and brown only, no lids), plastics, rinsed no lids (#1 & #2 only), magazines (must be dry), aluminum cans such as beverage cans, aluminum foil, and pie pans, and metal cans, rinsed, labels can be left on. Batteries and paint can be taken directly by residents to the Lawrence County Recycling Depot.
REFUSE. By way of example but not limitation, except as herein expressly provided, REFUSE shall mean items such as discarded containers, paper, ashes, cans, glass, wood, small solid objects and other litter capable of being placed in a standard container, but specifically excluding wastes such as rejected food wastes, including every waste accumulation of animal, fruit and vegetable matter used or intended for food or that attends the preparation, use, cooking, dealing in or storage of meat, fish, fowl, fruit or vegetable, and items such as discarded appliances, mattresses, box springs, tree limbs, leaves and grass clippings. REFUSE shall also include all items that might be defined as the same under the terms and conditions of a contract for refuse collection services, which may be entered into by the Board as authorized herein, which contract shall be on file in the Clerk-Treasurer’s office.
RESIDENTIAL UNIT. An occupied or unoccupied single-family residential dwelling unit specifically including, but not limited to, a mobile home, and each individual housekeeping, living or dwelling unit of a multiple-family building. (May be referred to as UNIT.)
SANITATION DEPARTMENT. City Utilities Sanitation Department.
SOLID WASTE. Appliances, ashes, garbage, refuse, trash, rubbish, and/or debris.
TRASH, RUBBISH, AND DEBRIS. Combustible refuse, including but not limited to barrels, wood, tree branches, yard trimmings, furniture, and other wood or combustible articles including bedding, plastic, and non- combustible refuse.
(‘67 Code, § 96.01) (Ord. 13-1969, passed 10-13-69; Ord. 24-2008, passed 11-12-08; Am. Ord. 27-2009, passed 9-8-09)