For the purpose of this subchapter the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
DEBRIS. Scattered remains: ruins; discarded waste: litter.
GARBAGE. The animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food.
REFUSE. Something rejected or discarded as worthless: trash.
RUBBISH. Combustible and noncombustible waste materials, except garbage; 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.
TRASH. Worthless, discarded material; junk.
WEEDS. Includes, but is not limited to, thistles, cockleburrs, Canada thistles and all of its varieties, perennial sow thistles, European Bentwood, Leafy Spurge, Russian Knapwood, Johnson Grass, Giant Foxtail, Hoary Cress, Jimson, Burdock, Cockleburrs, Ragweed and similar weeds and all weeds which, due to pollution are a menace to health, are, for purposes of this section, deemed noxious weeds.
(Ord. 1103, passed 1-3-84; Am. Ord. 1581, passed 6-17-96)