For the purposes of this chapter, and the interpretation and enforcement thereof, the words, terms, phrases and their derivatives set forth in this section below shall have the meanings as follows:
CITY HAULING SERVICE. The provision of any service contracted by the city to collect residential waste or landscape waste from any residential dwelling containing not more than two dwelling units.
COMMERCIAL HAULING SERVICE. The provision of any service to collect and transport municipal waste or landscape waste from any dwelling, multifamily dwelling or any commercial or industrial premises.
CONSTRUCTION OR DEMOLITION DEBRIS. Any solid waste containing a variety of materials resulting from the construction, demolition, remodeling or renovation of residential, commercial or industrial structures. CONSTRUCTION OR DEMOLITION DEBRIS also includes cement, concrete, asphalt or masonry debris resulting primarily from street, sidewalk, bridge, sewer and water construction, repair or replacement, which is defined as “clean fill” by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.
CURBSIDE. That portion of the right-of-way adjacent to and within five feet of the roadway, including any alley.
DIRECTOR. The City Manager or his or her designee.
DWELLING UNIT. One room or a suite of two or more rooms in a residential dwelling designed for and used for living and sleeping purposes, containing its own kitchen and bathroom facilities, and having its own independent entry/access from the exterior of such residential dwelling or from a common interior hallway.
FRONT YARD. The open space of any yard on any lot within the city extending the entire width of any such lot from the line of the right-of-way to the nearest point of any building or structure located on such lot.
IEPA. The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.
LANDSCAPE COMPANY. Any person that provides, for any property other than its own, maintenance or removal of lawns, shrubbery, trees or any ornamental plant, and transports only landscape waste produced directly as a result of such landscape care activities.
LANDSCAPE WASTE. Any accumulation of grass, shrubbery cuttings, leaves, tree limbs and other materials accumulated as the result of the care and maintenance of lawns, shrubbery, vines and trees; provided, however, that landscape waste that has been chipped, shredded, composted or otherwise processed so as to be converted from raw landscape waste shall not be considered to be LANDSCAPE WASTE for the purposes of this chapter.
MULTIFAMILY DWELLING. Any residential dwelling containing more than two dwelling units.
MUNICIPAL WASTE. Any garbage, refuse, rubbishy debris, general household waste, or construction or demolition debris, but does not include any landscape waste or any material or waste classified as hazardous, toxic, flammable or otherwise dangerous to the environment under any federal, state or local law.
PERSON. Any individual, partnership, co-partnership, firm, company, corporation, association, joint stock company, trust, estate, political subdivision, state agency, or any other legal entity, or their legal representative, agent or assigns.
RESIDENTIAL WASTE. Any garbage, refuse, rubbish, debris, general household waste, but does not include any construction or demolition debris or landscape waste or any material or waste classified as hazardous, toxic, flammable or otherwise dangerous to the environment under any federal, state or local law.
RIGHT-OF-WAY. The entire width between the boundary lines of any land dedicated for street, alley or sidewalk purposes or otherwise open to the use of the public for the purposes of passage or vehicular travel within the city.
ROADWAY. That portion of the right-of-way improved, designed or ordinarily used for vehicular travel.
WASTE HAULER. Any person who charges a fee for collecting municipal waste or landscape waste.
(Ord. 382, passed 2-19-68; Am. Ord. 997, passed 1-15-18)