For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
APPLIANCE. Stoves, refrigerators, freezers, washing machines, dryers, dishwashers or parts thereof.
CODE OFFICIAL. The Director of the Elizabethtown Department of Planning and Development or his or her designee or the successor thereto.
DEBRIS. Ruins from construction, including, but not limited to, barrels, metals, metal furniture and appliances, wood, dirt in piles, rock, pieces of concrete, glass, brick, building materials and mineral waste.
DEPARTMENT. The Department of Planning and Development for the city.
DISREPAIR. Dangerously rusted, wrecked or without all properly inflated tires, windshields, window glass, major chassis components, brake lights or without any other vehicle component required by law.
GARBAGE. Animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food.
INCINERATOR. Any incinerator shall be constructed to comply with the requirements of the commonwealth’s air pollution requirements and shall be approved by the commonwealth’s Fire Marshal, or a Deputy of said Fire Marshal or the city’s Fire Chief.
MOTOR VEHICLES. Every device, including major parts thereof, in, on or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn on a public highway, except devices moved by human or animal power, devices used exclusively on stationary rails or tracks and devices designed to be pulled, drawn or towed by a motor vehicle.
PERSON. Any individual, firm, corporation, partnership or other legal designation, including associations, boards and other groups.
PUBLIC WAY. Any and all entrances, streets or thoroughfares leading from a public highway or street to a business where the public is generally invited, is not prohibited from coming thereon and where vehicular or other traffic customarily takes place.
RUBBISH. Combustible and non-combustible waste materials, except garbage, and the term, shall include the residue from the burning of wood, coal, coke and other combustible materials, paper, rags, cartons, boxes, wood, excelsior, rubber, leather, tree branches, yard trimmings, tin cans, metals, mineral matter, glass, crockery and dust and other similar materials.
(Prior Code, § 92.001) (Ord. 37, passed 11-4-1991)