For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions apply unless the context clearly requires a different meaning.
AUTOMOBILE GRAVEYARD. Any establishment or place of business which is maintained, used or operated for storing, keeping, buying or selling wrecked, scrapped, ruined or dismantled motor vehicles or motor vehicle parts.
GARBAGE. Every accumulation of animal matter, vegetable matter or both; that is, the refuse matter from kitchens, pantries, dining rooms or other parts of hotels, restaurants, boarding houses, apartment houses, dwelling houses, market houses and public institutions, and all animal refuse or matter from butcher shops and refuse from poultry stores and fish stores.
JUNK. Old or scrap copper, brass, rope, rags, batteries, paper, trash, rubber, debris or waste, or junked, dismantled or wrecked automobiles or parts thereof, or iron, steel and other old or scrap ferrous or nonferrous materials.
JUNKYARD. An establishment or place of business which is maintained, operated or used for the storing, keeping, buying or selling of junk or for the maintenance or operation of an automobile graveyard, and the term shall include garbage dumps and sanitary fills.
REFUSE AND RUBBISH. Ashes, cinders, paper, broken wares, discarded bottles, tin cans, shoes and such refuse as may be termed the natural accumulation of resident families, or of stores, filling stations, institutions or other places where such things may accumulate.
SCRAP METAL PROCESSING FACILITY. An establishment having facilities used primarily for processing iron, steel or nonferrous metals and whose principal produce is such iron, steel or scrap for sale for remelting purposes only, the processor being considered a manufacturer.
(Prior Code, § 17-401)