ALLEY. A street that is not used primarily for through traffic and which provides access to rear entrances of buildings or lots along a street.
ANIMAL. Any living, domestic, vertebrate creature, other than homo sapiens.
COMPOSTING. The controlled biological decomposition through microbial activity of compatible organic wastes that have been diverted from the solid waste stream for conversion into soil amendment or mulch.
DIRECTOR. The director of code compliance for the City of Fort Worth or the director’s authorized representative.
ECTOPARASITES. Bedbugs, lice and mites.
GARBAGE. Putrescible animal and vegetable waste materials and/or residue from the handling, preparation, cooking or consumption of food, including waste materials from markets, storage facilities and the handling and sale of produce and other food products.
GRAFFITI. Any unauthorized inscription, word, signature, symbol, design or other marking of any sort which is etched, written, painted, drawn or applied in any other way to any structure, building, fence, wall, roadway, sidewalk or any property of any sort or to any portion or element thereof, whether the property is public or private.
LITTER. Garbage, rubbish and solid waste as herein defined and all other material which when discarded tends to endanger the public health, safety and welfare.
OWNER. Any person who is the owner of record to any real property, or any person having or claiming to have any legal or equitable interest in real or personal property.
PARKWAY. The unimproved portion of any street, between the roadway and the private property line.
PERSON. Any individual, partnership, firm, company, corporation, association, joint stock company, trust, estate, governmental entity or any other legal entity or their legal representatives, agents or assigns. This definition includes all federal, state and local governmental entities.
PUTRESCIBLE WASTE. Organic waste such as garbage and grease trap waste that is capable of being decomposed by microorganisms with sufficient rapidity as to cause odors or gases or is capable of providing food for or attracting birds, animals and vectors.
RECYCLABLES. Materials which have been recovered or diverted from the solid waste stream for purposes of reuse, recycling or reclamation.
RECYCLING FACILITY. A facility in which recyclables are collected or removed from the waste stream for transport off-site for recycling.
RIGHT-OF-WAY. Any street, roadway, alley, sidewalk or other property upon which the public has the right to travel by foot or by vehicle.
RUBBISH. Non-putrescible solid waste, excluding ashes, that consists of combustible waste materials, including paper, rags, cartons, wood, excelsior, furniture, rubber, plastics, yard trimmings, leaves and similar materials; or noncombustible waste materials, including glass, crockery, tin cans, aluminum cans, metal furniture and similar materials that do not burn at ordinary incinerator temperatures (1600°F to 1800°F).
SOLID WASTE. Any garbage, rubbish, recyclables, sludge from a waste treatment plant, water supply treatment plant or air pollution control facility, and other discarded material including solid, liquid, semi-solid or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, municipal, commercial, mining and agricultural operations, and from community and institutional activities, but does not include:
(1) Solid or dissolved material in domestic sewage, or solid or dissolved material in irrigation return flows or industrial discharges subject to regulation by permit issued pursuant to the Tex. Water Code Chapter 26;
(2) Soil, dirt, rock, sand and other natural or human-made inert solid materials used to fill land if the object of the fill is to make the land suitable for the construction of surface improvements; or
(3) Waste materials which result from activities associated with the exploration, development or production of oil and gas and are subject to control by the railroad commission of Texas.
STREET. The width between the boundary lines of a publicly maintained way, part of which is designed for vehicular traffic.
UNAUTHORIZED. Without the permission of the owner or the person in control of property, whether public or private.
VECTOR. An animal or insect that transmits a disease-producing organism.
(Ord. 12931, § 1, passed 3-25-1997; Ord. 14698, § 1, passed 7-17-2001; Ord. 14676, § 1, passed 6-26-2001)