For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ASHES. The residue from the burning of wood, coal, coke, or other combustible materials in homes, stores, institutions, and small industrial establishments for the purpose of heating, cooking, and disposing of waste combustible materials. Cinders produced in steam-generating plants are not included within the meaning of this term.
GARBAGE. Includes animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking, and consumption of foods. It is composed largely of organic matters and their natural moisture content. The term does not include within its meaning food processing wastes from canneries, slaughterhouses, packing plants, or similar industries, or large quantities of condemned food products. GARBAGE originates primarily in kitchens, stores, markets, restaurants, hotels, and other places where food is stored, cooked, or consumed.
INFLAMMABLE RUBBISH or COMBUSTIBLE RUBBISH. Comprises miscellaneous flammable materials. Generally, it is the organic component of rubbish such as paper, rags, cartons, boxes, wood, excelsior, furniture, bedding, rubber, leather, tree branches, yard trimmings, and similar material.
NONCOMBUSTIBLE RUBBISH. Comprises miscellaneous refuse materials that are nonflammable at ordinary temperatures. For the most part, it is the inorganic component of rubbish such as tin cans, metals, mineral matter, glass, crockery, dust, metal furniture, and the like.
(2015 Code, § 3-2-1)
PERSON. Any institution, public or private, corporation, individual, partnership, or other entity, but shall exclude the city.
PREMISES. Land, buildings, or other structures, vehicles, watercraft, or parts thereof, upon or in which refuse is stored.
REFUSE. All solid wastes of a community, including garbage, ashes, rubbish, dead animals, street cleanings, and solid market and industrial wastes, but not including body wastes.
(2015 Code, § 3-3-1)
RUBBISH. All refuse not included in garbage and ashes. It consists of a great variety of combustible and noncombustible waste materials from households, stores, and institutions. This waste is defined more specifically as COMBUSTIBLE RUBBISH and NONCOMBUSTIBLE RUBBISH, but whenever the word RUBBISH is used alone, it means a mixture of both. TRASH is synonymous with RUBBISH.
(2015 Code, § 3-2-1)