For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
AIRCRAFT. Any contrivance now known or hereafter invented, used, or designated for aerial navigation or for flight in the air. The word AIRCRAFT shall include helicopters and lighter-than-air dirigibles and balloons, free flying, or tethered.
AUTHORIZED PRIVATE RECEPTACLES. A litter storage and collection receptacle.
COMMERCIAL HANDBILL. Any printed or written matter, any sample or device, dodger, circular, leaflet, pamphlet, booklet, paper, or any other printed or otherwise reproduced original and copies of any matter of literature:
(1) Which advertises for sale any merchandise, product, commodity, or thing;
(2) Which directs attention to any business or mercantile or commercial establishment or other activity for the purpose of either directly or indirectly promoting the interest thereof by sales;
(3) Which directs attention to or advertises any meeting, theatrical performance, exhibition, or event of any kind, for which an admission fee is charged for the purpose of private gain or profit. The terms of this clause shall not apply where an admission fee is charged or a collection is taken up for the purpose of defraying the expenses incident to such meeting, theatrical performance, exhibition, or event of any kind, when either the same is held, given, or takes place in connection with the dissemination of information which is not restricted under the ordinary rules of decency, good morals, public peace, safety, and good order. Nothing contained in this clause shall be deemed to authorize the holding, giving, or taking place of any meeting, theatrical performance, exhibition, or event of any kind without a license, where such license is or may be required by law of this state or under this code;
(4) Which, while containing reading matter other than advertising matter, is predominately and essentially an advertisement and is distributed or circulated for advertising purposes or for private benefit and gain for any person so engaged as advertiser or distributor; or
(5) Any newspaper or similar publication containing substantial amounts of matter advertising articles or things for sale or any businesses or services for profit which newspaper or similar publication is in normal course distributed without charge and without subscription therefor by the recipients.
LITTER. Any rubbish, trash, weeds, filth, and debris which shall constitute a hazard to public health and safety and shall include all putrescible and nonputrescible solid wastes, including garbage, trash, ashes, street cleanings, dead animals, abandoned automobiles, glass, and solid market and industrial wastes; any deposits, accumulation, pile, or heap of brush, grass, debris, weeds, cans, cloth, paper, wood, rubbish, or other unsightly or unsanitary matter of any kind whatsoever; and any growth of weeds, brush, grass, or other vegetable growth to a height of over six inches.
NEWSPAPER. Any newspaper of general circulation as defined by general law, any newspaper duly entered with the Post Office Department of the United States in accordance with the federal statutes or regulations, any newspaper filed and recorded with any recording officer as provided by general law, and in addition thereto, shall mean and include any newspaper, periodical, or current magazine regularly published with not less than for issues per year and sold to the public.
NONCOMMERCIAL HANDBILL. Any printed or written matter, any sample or device, dodger, circular, leaflet, pamphlet, newspaper, magazine, paper, booklet, or any other printed or otherwise reproduced original or copies of any matter of literature not included in the definitions herein of a commercial handbill or newspaper.
PRIVATE PREMISES. Any dwelling, house, building, or other structure, designated 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 vestibules belonging or appurtenant to such dwelling, house, building, or other structures.
PUBLIC PLACE. Any and all streets, sidewalks, boulevards, alleys, or other public ways, and any and all public parks, squares, spaces, grounds, and buildings.
VEHICLE. Every device in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, including devices used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.
(Prior Code, § 10-5-1)