For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
COMMERCIAL GARBAGE OR TRASH. Garbage or trash derived from the operations of business and not resulting from the ordinary operations of private residences or households
DEPOSITOR. Any person who places or directs garbage or trash to be placed in a receptacle in which he or she is entitled to place garbage or trash, as required in this chapter.
GARBAGE. Any rejected or waste food, offal, swill, or carrion, including waste paper, rags, sweeping, or other small perfectly combustible substances, but excluding noncombustible and heavy trash, such as ashes, tin cans, plaster, and similar substances.
MULTIPLE DWELLING. A building or part of a building designed, intended, or used as an apartment house, apartment hotel, tenement house, or other residential use in which there is more than one dwelling.
OCCUPATIONAL UNIT. A building or part of a building, designed as, intended for, or used for any purpose other than a single dwelling or multiple dwelling.
TRASH. All ashes of wood, coal, and coke, the residue resulting from the combustion of any material or substance, soot, cinders, slag, or charcoal, empty tin cans, empty bottles, empty glass containers, scrap iron wire, metal articles, brickbats, broken stone, or cement, broken crockery, broken glass, broken plaster, and other noncombustible and heavy refuse.
(Prior Code, § 55.001) Penalty, see § 55.999