As used in this chapter:
(a) "Board of Health" means the Dayton-Montgomery County Combined Health District. (b) "City" means the City of Englewood, Ohio.
(c) "Collection agent" or "refuse hauler" means any owner of collection and transportation vehicles which have been approved for garbage, rubbish and salvage material collection and transportation by the Sanitarian of the Dayton-Montgomery County Combined Health District, and who is contractually franchised by the City or who possesses a current permit for such work issued by the City Manager.
(d) "Commercial establishment" means any structure, whether public or private, that is adapted for occupancy, for transaction of business, for rendering of professional service, for amusement, for the display, sale or storage of goods, wares or merchandise or for the performance of work or labor, including hotels, apartment buildings, tenement houses, rooming houses, office buildings, public buildings, stores, theaters, markets, restaurants, abattoirs, warehouses, factories and all outhouses, sheds, barns and other structures on premises used for business purposes.
(e) "Employee" means any driver or assistant working with or on collection and transportation vehicles.
(f) "Garbage" means putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food in the home.
(g) "Person" means any person, householder, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company or organization of any kind.
(h) "Recyclable materials" means all empty beverage and food cans; empty clear, amber and green glass food and beverage containers; and empty soda, water, milk and detergent plastic containers.
(i) "Rubbish" shall be classified as kitchen rubbish, household rubbish, yard rubbish, commercial and industrial rubbish or miscellaneous rubbish.
(1) "Kitchen rubbish" means all types of food containers and wrappings, including tin cans, bottles, jars, broken glass, crockery, paper and wood boxes and small metal objects.
(2) "Household rubbish" means all types of household materials to be discarded, such as newspapers, magazines, books, wrappings, cartons, boxes, ashes, excelsior, rags, clothing, wallpaper, leather objects, sweepings, animal offal, small household appliances and Christmas trees.
(3) "Yard rubbish" means all material which grows on the property, which material is to be disposed of, such as grass clippings, weeds, leaves, plants, wood shavings, tree fruit, sawdust, garden trash, clippings from hedges and shrubs, branches under two inches in diameter from trees and bushes, and small roots and stumps under two inches in diameter.
(4) "Miscellaneous rubbish" means all other material not above mentioned, including rocks, sod, dirt, earth, sand, brick, stone, wood, plaster or similar substances that may accumulate as a result of construction, or crates, bedding, furniture, floor covering, large household appliances, tree or shrub limbs in excess of two inches in diameter, scrap, abandoned automobiles and similar materials. An automobile shall be considered abandoned unless it is properly registered and current and valid license plates are exhibited thereon.
(5) "Commercial and industrial rubbish" means all waste material resulting from the operation of a commercial or industrial enterprise that is not salvageable.
(j) "Salvage material" means clean packing materials such as cardboard boxes, paper, newspapers, saleable metals and such recyclable materials as defined in subsection (h) hereof, which can be rejuvenated or returned to pulp mills for reconstitution. No material to be dumped or incinerated shall be considered as salvageable.
(Ord. 92-9. Passed 2-11-92.)