The following definitions of terms shall apply unless the context clearly indicates another meaning or unless elsewhere stated for specific application:
COMMERCIAL REFUSE COLLECTOR: The person or entity who is or intends to be engaged in the collection and/or transportation of garbage and refuse, in any part of the city.
COMMERCIAL REFUSE GENERATOR: Any person in charge or owning, leasing, renting or occupying any multi-family dwelling unit with three (3) or more units, business, industrial or commercial building, including, but not limited to, an apartment complex, store, office, factory, motel or hotel that generates garbage and refuse.
GARBAGE: Every accumulation of animal, vegetable or other matter that attends the preparation, consumption, decay, dealing in or storage of meats, fish, fowl, birds, fruits or vegetables, including the cans, containers and wrappers wasted along with such materials.
OCCUPANT: The person occupying a dwelling unit or the person operating, managing or keeping any hotel, restaurant, food establishment, commercial establishment, business establishment, school, church, institution or premises wherein or whereon garbage and refuse accumulates or is likely to accumulate.
REFUSE: Any waste product solid or having the character of solids rather than liquids in that it will not flow readily without additional liquid and which is composed wholly or partly of such materials as garbage, swill, seepings, cleaning, trash, rubbish, litter, industrial solid wastes or domestic solid wastes; organic wastes or residue or animals sold as meat; fruit or other vegetable or animal matter from kitchens, dinning rooms, markets, food establishments or any places dealing in or handling meat, fowl, fruits, grain or vegetable offal, animal excreta, or the carcasses of animals; brick, plaster or other waste matter resulting from the demolition, alteration or construction of buildings or structures; accumulated waste material, cans, containers, tires, discarded appliances, junk vehicles, furniture; wood, leaves, trimmings from shrubs, dead trees or branches thereof, shavings, sawdust, excelsior, wooden ware, printed matter, paper, paper board, pasteboard, grass, rags, straw, boots, shoes, hats and all other combustible material not included under the term "garbage" or any other such substance which may become a nuisance.
RESIDENTIAL REFUSE GENERATOR: Any person generating garbage or refuse other than a commercial refuse generator including occupants and owners of duplex dwellings which do not have common refuse collection containers or commercial refuse containers. (Ord. 85-2, 6-17-1985)