For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
AIR POLLUTANTS. Any substances such as cinders, fly ash, smoke fumes, gas mist, and offensive odors.
AIR POLLUTION. The presence in the outdoor atmosphere of substances in quantities, having characteristic and being of duration which are, with reasonable certainty, injurious to human life and property, or which unreasonably interfere with the enjoyment of life and property for reason of emission of odors, vapors, liquids, or gases.
COMBUSTIBLE MATERIALS. Any waste or substances which is easily inflammable; tree leaves, papers, cartons, paper boxes, dry limbs, dry grass cuttings.
NUISANCE. Environmental conditions, intermittent, or continuous, produced or correctable by a person, prejudicial to the reasonable enjoyment of health, comfort, or safety by an individual or causing injury or damage to persons and property.
NON-COMBUSTIBLE MATERIALS. Any waste material or substance not easily inflammable, such as clothing, bedding, garbage, fresh grass cuttings, fresh tree leaves, mattresses, tires, and other rubber products, automobile hulks, furniture, rugs, rags, cans, waste foodstuffs, dead animals, animal excrement, sawdust, any material which is subject to slow combustion usually emitting smoke, offensive odors, fumes, gases, or similar pollutants.
OPEN BURNING. Any fire from which the products of combustion are emitted directly into the outdoor atmosphere, the burning on the ground or in metal containers or appurtenances other than accepted devices.
PERSON. Any individual, renter, owner, lessee, partnership, voluntary association, responsible for the use of the property.
SMOKE. Any small gasborne particles resulting from incomplete combustion and present in sufficient quantity to be visually observable.
SOURCE. Any property, real or personal, or person contributing to air pollution.
VIOLATOR. A person contributing to air pollution in violation of standards established in this subchapter.
(Ord. 1-1987, passed 6-16-1987)