For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ABANDONED MOTOR VEHICLE. A vehicle that:
(1) Is left on public grounds or town-owned property in violation of a law or ordinance prohibiting parking;
(2) Is left for longer than 24 hours on property owned or operated by the town;
(3) Is left for longer than two hours on private property without the consent of the owner, occupant, or lessee of the property; or
(4) Is left for longer than seven days on public grounds.
GARBAGE. All solid wastes capable of being rapidly decomposed by microorganisms, including, but not limited to, animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food, as well as animal offal and carcasses, but excluding sewage and human wastes.
JUNKED MOTOR VEHICLES. An abandoned motor vehicle that also:
(1) Is partially dismantled or wrecked;
(2) Cannot be self-propelled or moved in the manner in which it was originally intended to move;
(3) Is more than five years old and appears to be worth less than $100; or
(4) Does not display a current license plate when the motor vehicle is required by laws of this state to have a license plate to operate on the public roads.
MOTOR VEHICLES. Any machine designed or intended to travel over land or water by self-propulsion or while attached to a self-propelled vehicle.
PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR. The Public Works Director or any other person designated by the manager to perform the functions and exercise the responsibilities assigned by this chapter to the Public Works Director.
REFUSE. All solid wastes, except:
(1) Garbage; and
(2) Solids that are dissolved or suspended in domestic, commercial or industrial wastewater effluent.
SCRAP MATERIALS.
(1) Pieces or fragments of metal, wood, glass, masonry, plastic, textiles, rope, leather, rubber, paper or any other substance, that formerly were part of the construction of some useful object or thing or that consist of the excess resulting from the creation of some useful object or thing;
(2) Objects or things, including, but not limited to, machines, tools, equipment, hardware, furniture, appliances and the like or parts of the same that are no longer in serviceable condition or are valuable only as raw material for reprocessing; or
(3) Motor vehicles or remnants thereof that:
(a) Do not display current license plates;
(b) Cannot, without substantial repairs, be made to operate in the manner originally intended; and
(c) Are valuable only as raw materials for reprocessing, but that do not constitute solid wastes, as herein defined, because they are or may be useful to or wanted by or have not been discarded by the person in control of the premises where they have been located.
SOLID WASTES. Wastes that are nongaseous and non-liquid (except that liquid wastes resulting from the processing of food are deemed solid wastes for the purposes of this chapter).
WASTES. All useless, unwanted or discarded materials resulting from domestic, industrial, commercial or community activities.
(Prior Code, § 20.5-1) (Ord. passed 3-14-1984)