503.09 DEFINITIONS.
   For the purpose of Sections 503.09 through 503.12 the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
   (a)   "Garbage" means all putrescible wastes, except wastes of the human body and other water-carried wastes, including all vegetable and animal wastes resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking, or consumption of foods. Any containers that have contained food or liquids for consumption by humans or other beings also shall be classified as garbage.
   (b)   "Junk" means old or scrap copper, brass, rope, rags, batteries, paper, rubber, lumber, pipe, used building materials and roofing, old scrap iron, steel or other ferrous or nonferrous materials. This definition shall also include any inoperable, dismantled, partly dismantled, or wrecked motor vehicle or parts thereof, or any motor vehicle which is of no value except for salvage or junk purposes or any motor vehicle which is unlicensed or not currently licensed for a period of seven days or more.
   (c)   "Person" means the owner, occupant, user or other in control of the premises.
   (d)   "Refuse" means ashes, crockery, bottles, cans, paper and other wood pulp products, boxes, rags, grass clippings and other cut vegetation, old or discarded clothing, bedding, mattresses, furniture, appliances, rubbish, stone, sand, dirt, nails, pieces of glass, oil, and all other similar nonputrescible wastes other than those included in the definition of garbage.    
      (Ord. 1989-12. Passed 7-18-89.)