The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
ASHES: The residue from burning wood, coal, coke or other combustible materials.
AUTOMOBILE GRAVEYARD: Any establishment or place of business which is maintained, operated, or used for storing, buying or selling wrecked, junked, scrapped, ruined or dismantled motor vehicles or motor vehicle parts.
DISEASED ANIMAL: An animal showing symptoms of a disease or having an illness or being in an unhealthy state. This shall include a vicious animal as defined under the Animal Control Act, 510 Illinois Compiled Statutes 5/1 et seq.
EXTERMINATION: The control and elimination of insects, rodents, or other pests by eliminating their harborage places by removing or making inaccessible materials that may serve as their food, by poisoning, spraying, trapping, or by any other recognized and legal method of pest elimination.
GARBAGE: Debris, junk, old or scrap copper, brass, rope, rags, batteries, paper, trash, rubber debris, waste, or junked, dismantled or wrecked automobiles, or parts thereof, iron, steel, and other old or scrap ferrous or nonferrous material, inoperable appliances, unusable furniture, dimensional lumber from dismantled buildings, and putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food.
HOUSEHOLD PETS: Dogs, cats, hamsters, birds, or similar animals being kept solely on private premises for noncommercial purposes.
INFESTATION: The presence, within a dwelling or other building, on the premises or storage site of insects, rodents, or other pests.
INOPERABLE MOTOR VEHICLE: Any motor vehicle which, for a period of at least seven (7) days, the engine, wheels or other parts have been removed, or on which the engine, wheels or other parts have been altered, damaged or otherwise so treated that the vehicle is incapable of being driven under its own motor power. The term "inoperable motor vehicle" shall not include a motor vehicle which has been rendered temporarily incapable of being driven under its own motor power in order to perform ordinary service or repair operations.
JUNK: Old or scrap copper, brass, rope, rags, batteries, paper, trash, rubber debris, waste, or junked, dismantled or wrecked automobiles, or parts thereof, iron, steel, and other old or scrap ferrous or nonferrous material, inoperable appliances, unusable furniture, and dimensional lumber from dismantled buildings.
JUNK VEHICLE: Any motor vehicle which is wrecked, scrapped, ruined, partially dismantled, wholly dismantled, inoperative, abandoned or discarded, and/or fails to display current valid licensing.
JUNKYARD: A properly licensed establishment or place of business, licensed pursuant to this chapter governing junkyards, which is maintained, operated, or used for storing, keeping, buying or selling junk, or for the maintenance or operation of an automobile graveyard or mobile home salvage yard.
MANURE: The excrement of all domestic animals and fowl and stable bedding.
MOBILE HOME SALVAGE YARD: An establishment or place of business, licensed pursuant to this chapter, which is maintained, operated or used for storing, keeping, buying or selling wrecked, scrapped, junked, ruined or dismantled mobile homes or mobile home parts, and does not include the repair of mobile homes by mobile home dealers who refurbish and sell used but not wrecked, scrapped, junked, ruined, or dismantled homes.
MOTOR VEHICLE: Any vehicle which is self-propelled and designed to travel along the ground and shall include, but not be limited to, automobiles, buses, motor bikes, motorcycles, motor scooters, trucks, go-carts, golf carts, campers and trailers.
PERSON: Any natural person, firm, club, corporation, association, partnership, company, organization, or political subdivision.
PREMISES: Public and/or private property, either improved or vacant, inhabited or uninhabited, including buildings and other structures, vehicles, watercraft and/or parts thereof.
REFUSE: All putrescible and nonputrescible solid wastes (except body wastes), including garbage, junk, rubbish, ashes, street cleanings, dead animals, abandoned automobiles, discarded household appliances and solid market and industrial wastes.
RODENTS: Rats and mice.
RUBBISH: Nonputrescible solid wastes (excluding ashes), consisting of both combustible and noncombustible wastes such as paper, cardboard, tin cans, yard clippings, wood, glass, bedding, crockery, and similar materials.
SCRAP PROCESSING FACILITIES: Any establishment having facilities for processing iron, steel, nonferrous scrap, mineral wastes or slag, and whose principal product is scrap iron, steel or nonferrous scrap for sale for remelting purposes only.
STORAGE SITE: Public and/or private property, either improved or vacant, including the buildings or structures thereon, vehicles, watercraft, or parts thereof, upon or in which refuse is stored for collection prior to final disposal.
VERMIN: Roaches, bed bugs, fleas, lice or similar noxious or disgusting animal of small size. (Ord. 607-08, 11-3-2008; amd. 2017 Code)