As used in this chapter:
(a) "City" means the City of Elyria, Ohio.
(b) "Collecting agent" means each and every employee of the City charged with the duty of collecting or receiving fees, or both, for collecting and disposing of garbage or rubbish, yard waste, recyclables, and white goods by the City.
(c) "White goods" means large electrical goods used domestically such as refrigerators and washing machines, traditionally white in color.
(d) "Collector" means the City and each and all of its duly authorized agents and employees connected with the collection and disposal of garbage, rubbish, newspapers, commingled recyclable materials and/or yard waste.
(e) "Commercial establishment" means any premises, other than premises occupied by a residential account holder, and any institution, public or private, charitable or noncharitable, upon which garbage or rubbish, or both, are created.
(f) "Commingled recyclable materials" means all glass beverage bottles, food jars, plastic milk containers, plastic bottles and containers coded numbers one through seven and with caps removed, and aluminum, bimetal and steel cans. Containers that are contaminated with motor oil, antifreeze, pesticides and herbicides are excluded.
(g) "Director" means the Director of Safety-Service of the City.
(h) "Garbage" means all putrescible waste, except sewage and body waste, including vegetable and animal offal and carcasses of small dead animals, but excluding recognizable industrial by-products, and including all such substances from all public and private establishments and from all residences.
(i) "Newspaper" means newsprint used for printing newspapers and excludes all other paper products.
(j) "Person" means every natural person or association of persons, a partnership or corporation.
(k) "Premises" means land or buildings or both, or parts of either or both, occupied by one account holder.
(l) "Residential account holder" means individual maintaining his or her separate living room or quarters on premises, including owners, tenants and occupants of all premises upon which garbage or rubbish, or both, are accumulated.
(m) "Rubbish" means crockery, printed matter, boots, shoes, hats and other clothing, but excluding any material in the nature of earth, sand, brick, stone, plaster, ashes or other substances that may accumulate as a result of building operations, and also excluding grass clippings and yard waste.
(n) "Yard waste" means leaves, brush, dead plants, weeds, garden wastes, dead trees or branches, woodchips, tree trimmings and prunings, but specifically excluding grass clippings.
(Ord. 2017-11. Passed 2-6-17.)