The following words and phrases when used in this Chapter shall have the following meanings, unless the context requires otherwise:
(a) "Alley" means the right-of-way improved for public use which is not intended for through vehicular traffic and which is intended to provide secondary access to lots and buildings fronting on public streets by providing access to the rear or sides of such lots and buildings.
(b) "Mayor" means the Chief Executive Officer of the City of Galion, Ohio, or the representative duly authorized by said individual to act in behalf thereof.
(c) "Commercial Alley" means an alley which in the opinion of the Mayor is required to effectively serve legally existing and/or properly zoned commercial and industrial uses with commercial collection activities and is shown as such on the City Street Map.
(d) "Commercial establishments" means business establishments engaged in the purchase and sale, and/or barter of commodities including, but not by way of limitation, stores, markets, and restaurants and other establishments maintained for the provision of food and beverage for human consumption, hotels, motels, automotive service stations, and all such similar establishments.
(e) "Curb" means the tree lawn or devil strip, or any other area of a property between the improved edge of a public street or alley and the property line of the property abutting such street or alley, but excluding any sidewalk, walkway, and any driveway.
(f) "Curbside collection" means the process or activity of placing properly packaged or contained garbage, solid waste, refuse, compostable material, other discarded material, and/or recyclables, for the purpose of the collection and conveyance thereof by commercial haulers, upon a curb.
(g) "Collection, commercial collection, or commercial collection activities" means the process or activity effected and/or undertaken by commercial haulers of collecting and/or conveying garbage, solid waste, refuse, other discardable material, and/or recyclables other than that actually produced by said person or in direct connection to the premises of which said person is the owner or an occupant, in compliance with and pursuant to this Chapter.
(h) "Garbage" means any putrescible animal or vegetable waste resulting from the handling, processing, preparation, cooking and service of food.
(i) "Ground" means the earth, as well as the surface of a driveway, a sidewalk, a floor, or any other surface on, in or about real property on or in which garbage or other refuse may be placed, deposited, kept, accumulated, and/or stored.
(j) “Licensed solid waste hauler" means any person engaged in commercial collection activities within the City of Galion, Ohio, who has been issued a license by the Galion City Board of Health to engage in said activity.
(k) "Person" means the State of Ohio or any political subdivision, agency, office or enterprise thereof, any corporation, public or private, and any individual, partnership or other entity.
(l) "Premises" means any land, building or structure on or in which solid waste may be placed, deposited, kept, accumulated and/or stored.
(m) "Refuse or other refuse" means ashes, crockery, bottles, tin cans, paper and other wood pulp products, boxes, rags, old or discarded clothing, bedding, mattresses and upholstered furniture, and all other similar nonputrescible wastes and discarded materials not otherwise defined herein.
(n) "Residence" means any enclosure, other than those kept, maintained, or operated solely as commercial or industrial establishments, used as a human domicile, including, but not by way of limitation, one, two and three family and single-family dwellings, mobile homes and house trailers, living quarters within and/or attached to boathouse structures or boatports, camps, and any other structure within which humans may sleep, or prepare or consume food.
(o) "Safety-Service Director" means the combined Director of Public Safety and Director of Public Service position appointed pursuant Sections 735.01 and 737.01 of the Ohio Revised Code.
(p) "Solid Waste " means such unwanted residual solid or semisolid material as results from residential, industrial, commercial, agricultural, and community operations, excluding earth or material from construction, mining, or demolition operations, or other waste materials of a type that would normally be included in demolition debris, nontoxic fly ash, spent nontoxic foundry sand, and slag and other substances that are not harmful or inimical to public health, and includes, but is not limited to, garbage, tires, combustible and noncombustible material, street dirt, and debris, and excluding any material that is an infectious waste or a hazardous waste. Solid waste includes, but is not limited to: putrescible animal or vegetable wastes resulting from the handling, processing, preparation cooking, or serving of food; junk, debris, wire, paper, cardboard, furniture, glass, abandoned vehicles or parts thereof, tires, wood, rubber, leather, metals, plastics, crockery, textiles, household appliances, and electronics.
(q) "Street" means an improved right-of-way open to use of the public as a thoroughfare for vehicular travel and providing principal access to lots and buildings fronting thereon.
(r) "Substandard local street" means any street or alley which provides principal access to lots and buildings fronting thereon, but which fail to meet both right-of-way width and improvements required by the Galion Subdivision Regulations.
(s) "Vector" means any insect or arthropod, rodent, or other animal of public health significance capable of harboring or transmitting the causative agents of disease to humans. (Ord. 2019-64. Passed 10-8-19.)