For the purpose of this chapter the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
(a) “Aircraft” means any contrivance now known or hereafter invented, used or designated for navigation or for flight in the air. The word “aircraft” shall also include helicopters and lighter-than-air dirigibles and balloons.
(b) “Authorized private receptacle” means a litter storage and collection receptacle as required and authorized in this chapter.
(c) Commercial handbill” means any printed or written mailer, any sample or device, dodger, circular, leaflet, pamphlet, paper, booklet, or any other printed or otherwise reproduced original or copies of any matter of literature:
(1) Which advertises for sale any merchandise, product, commodity or thing;
(2) Which directs attention to any business, 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; or
(4) Which, while containing reading matter other than advertising matter, is predominantly and essentially an advertisement and is distributed or circulated for advertising purposes or for the private benefit and gain of any person so engaged as advertiser or distributor.
(d) “Garbage” means putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking, and consumption of food.
(e) “Litter” means any uncontainerized man-made or man-used waste which, if deposited within the Village otherwise than in a litter receptacle, tends to create a danger to public health, safety, and welfare, or to impair the environment of the people of the Village. “Litter” may include, but is not limited to, any garbage, trash, refuse, confetti, debris, grass clippings or other lawn or garden wastes, newspaper, magazines, glass, metal, plastic or paper container or other construction material, motor vehicle parts, furniture, oil, carcass of a dead animal, or nauseous or offensive matter of any kind, or any object likely to injure any person or create a traffic hazard.
(f) “Newspaper” means 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 federal statute or regulation and any newspaper filed and recorded with the recording officer as provided by general law and, in addition thereto, any periodical or current magazine regularly published with not less than four issues per year and sold to the public.
(g) “Noncommercial handbill” means 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 literature not included in the definitions of a commercial handbill or newspaper set out in this section.
(h) “Private premises” means any dwelling, house, building, or other structure designed or used either wholly or in part for private residential purposes, whether inhabited or temporarily or continuously uninhabited or vacant, and any yard, grounds, walk, driveway, porch, steps, vestibule, or mailbox belonging or appurtenant to such dwelling house, building, or other structure.
(i) “Pubic place” means any and all streets, sidewalks, boulevards, alleys, or other public way" and any and all public squares, spaces, grounds, and buildings, and all Village parks and cemeteries.
(j) “Refuse” means all putrescible and nonputrescible solid wastes, except body wastes, including garbage, rubbish, ashes, street cleanings, and solid market and industrial wastes.
(k) “Rubbish” means nonputreacible solid waste consisting of both combustible and noncombustible wastes, such as paper, wrappings, cigarettes, cardboard, construction materials, concrete, asphalt, and other paving materials, tin cans, yard clippings, wood, tree trunks, tree limbs, glass, bedding, crockery, and similar materials.
(l) “Vehicle” means every device in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway.
(Ord. 566. Passed 2-25-91.)