As used in this chapter, the following words and terms shall have the meaning set forth below:
COMMERCIAL REFUSE GENERATOR: Any person in charge of, owning, leasing, renting, or occupying any multi-family dwelling unit in excess of one unit, business, industrial, or commercial building, including, but not limited to, an apartment complex, store, office, factory, or school that generates garbage.
DISPOSAL AREA: Any site, location, tract of land, area, building, structure, or premises used or intended to be used by a refuse generator for garbage disposal.
GARBAGE: Every accumulation of table scraps, ashes, paper, rags, bottles, glass, cans, sweepings, rubbish, refuse, debris of animal, vegetable, or other matter that attends the preparation, consumption, decay, dealing in or storage of meats, fish, fowl, birds, fruit, or vegetables, including the cans, containers, or wrappers wasted along with such materials, and all other waste matter.
GARBAGE CONTAINER: Any container provided by the City to be used by a person or occupant to store garbage, pending collection by the City.
HAZARDOUS WASTE: Any caustic, toxic, corrosive, flammable, or radioactive substance that may be dangerous to the public safety and welfare. Hazardous substance includes, but is not limited to, irritants, strong sensitizers, and those materials defined by the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the State of Montana as a hazardous waste, hazardous substance, or hazardous material.
OCCUPANT: Any person owning or occupying a dwelling unit or the person owning, operating, managing, or keeping any commercial establishment, business establishment, school, church, institution, or premises wherein or whereon garbage accumulates or is likely to accumulate.
REFUSE: Any waste product solid or having the character of solids rather than liquids in that it will not flow readily without additional liquid and which is composed wholly or partly of such materials as garbage, swill, seepings, cleanings, trash, rubbish, litter, industrial solid wastes, or domestic solid wastes; organic wastes or residue of animals sold as meat; fruit or other vegetable or animal matter from kitchens, dining rooms, markets, food establishments, or any places dealing in or handling meat, fowl, fruits, grain, or vegetable offal, animal excreta, or the carcasses of animals; brick, plaster, or other waste matter resulting from the demolition, alteration, or construction of buildings or structures; accumulated waste material, cans, containers, tires, junk, or other such substance which may become a nuisance.
RESIDENTIAL REFUSE GENERATOR: Any person generating garbage other than a commercial refuse generator as defined above.
RUBBISH: Wood, leaves, trimmings from shrubs, dead trees, or branches thereof, wooden ware, printed matter, paper, paper board, pasteboard, grass, rags, straw, boots, shoes, hats, and all other combustible materials not included under the term "garbage".
WASTE MATTER: Waste material composed of soil, earth, sand, clay, gravel, loam, stone, bricks, plaster, crockery, glass, glassware, ashes, cinders, shells, metals, and all other material which has been or is discarded or is to be discarded. (Ord. 262, 8-1-2017)