For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
MUNICIPAL CLEAN UP. The city will provide a municipal clean up service referred to as “Spring and Fall Clean Up” for no charge once per every spring season and once per every fall season. (See § 50.14)
REFUSE or GARBAGE. All organic household waste, offal, animal and vegetable matter, such as has been prepared or intended to be used as food, or shall have arisen in the preparation of food and like matter, from restaurants, homes, apartments, wholesale and retail groceries, stores and produce stands. Dead animals or birds shall not be placed in garbage containers, but shall be disposed of in a proper, lawful and humane manner by the owner or keeper.
TRASH. All cold ashes, papers, cans, leaves, weeds, portions of trees, branches, grass, old and worn out household machines, furniture and boxes; provided, it is an accumulation from that property and no debris from contract work (i.e., a store replaces a stove, the store removes the old stove; house remodeled, the contractor removes all debris). If the owner has been verified to have done the work, the city will help remove that debris. Dwelling unit is one that has a semi-private bath, kitchen and bedroom as a minimum.
UNLAWFUL CLUTTER. All waste or non-waste toys, tools, papers of every description, auto parts, furniture, appliances, discarded sand, broken limbs, discarded gravel, ashes, brick bats, tin cans, aluminum cans, empty glass containers, trash, garbage, old firewood not neatly stacked, lumber, upholstered indoor furniture, boxes, mattresses, building materials, yard maintenance items, usable items left in the yard or porches for days at a time, discarded materials of every kind, all of which is left in front, back or side yards, or porches, more than one week; or waste or non-waste building material left in front, back or side yards for more than 30 days.
(1994 Code, § 17-101) (Ord. 434, passed 1-7-1987; Ord. 744, passed 10-29-2013; Ord. 826, passed 10-22-2018; Ord. 881, passed 7-25-2022)