For the purpose of this chapter, the following terms, phrases, words and their derivatives shall have the meaning given herein. When not inconsistent with the context, words used in the present tense include the future, words used in the plural number include the singular number, and words used in the singular number include the plural number. The word "shall" is always mandatory and not merely directory.
DEBRIS: The remains, fragments, pieces or parts of something broken down, damaged or destroyed.
GARBAGE: Putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food.
LITTER: "Garbage", "refuse" and "rubbish", as defined in this section, and junk and all other waste or discarded materials and substances, including, but not excluding by enumeration, paper, bottles, glass, nails, tacks, hoops, cans, wire (barbed or otherwise), building materials (lumber, boards, plasterboard, mortar, insulation, sheet metal, plumbing materials and fixtures, electrical materials and fixtures, water and gas materials and fixtures, sand and gravel, and roofing and siding materials), automobile bodies, including the parts and components thereof, and tires.
PARK: A park, reservation, playground, recreation center or any other public area in the city owned or used by the city and devoted to active or passive recreation.
PERSON: Any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company or organization of any kind.
PRIVATE PREMISES: Any dwelling, house, building or other structure, designed or used wholly or in part for private residential purposes, whether inhabited or temporarily or continuously uninhabited or vacant, and shall include any yard, grounds, walk, driveway, porch, steps or mailbox belonging or pertinent to such dwelling, house, building or other structure.
PUBLIC PLACE: Any and all streets, sidewalks, boulevards, alleys or other public ways, and any and all public parks, squares, spaces, grounds, easements and buildings.
REFUSE: All putrescible and nonputrescible solid waste (except body waste), including garbage, rubbish, trash, ashes, street cleanings, dead animals, abandoned automobiles, junk, and solid market and industrial waste.
RUBBISH: Nonputrescible solid waste consisting of both combustible and noncombustible waste, such as paper, wrappings, cigarettes, cardboard, tin cans, yard clippings, leaves, wood, glass, bedding, crockery, and other similar materials.
VEHICLE: Every device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a street, except devices moved solely by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks. (2003 Code § 6-04-01)