For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ASHES. Residue from fires used for cooking and for heating buildings.
CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION DEBRIS. Any construction or demolition materials, scraps, or matter usually discarded during or after construction or demolition of buildings, roads, and other structures.
FLY-DUMPING. Dumping, depositing, dropping, throwing, discarding, leaving, or causing or permitting the dumping, depositing, dropping, throwing, discarding, or leaving, of garbage, refuse, ashes, construction, and demolition debris, on any public lands or thoroughfare or at sites or locations which are not authorized to accept such wastes, debris, or other materials, except by the owner or lessee of such site or location.
GARBAGE. Wastes resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking, and consumption of food and wastes from the handling, storage, and sale of produce.
LITTER. Any discarded, used, or unconsumed substance or waste. LITTER may include, but is not limited to, any garbage, trash, refuse, debris, rubbish, grass clippings or other lawn or garden waste, newspaper, magazines, glass, metal, plastic or paper containers or other packaging construction material, abandoned vehicles (as defined in the Illinois Vehicle Code), motor vehicle parts, furniture, oil, carcass of a dead animal, any nauseous or offensive matter of any kind, any object likely to injure any person or create a traffic hazard, potentially infectious medical waste as defined in § 3.360 of the Environmental Protection Act, or anything else of an unsightly or unsanitary nature, which has been discarded, abandoned, or otherwise disposed of improperly.
REFUSE. Combustible trash, including, but not limited to, paper, cartons, boxes, barrels, wood, excelsior, tree branches, yard trimmings, wood furniture, bedding, noncombustible trash, including, but not limited to, metals, tin cans, metal furniture, dirt, small quantities of rock and pieces of concrete, glass, crockery, other mineral waste, and street rubbish, including, but not limited to, street sweepings, dirt, leaves, catch-basin dirt, contents of litter receptacles, but REFUSE does not mean earth and wastes from building operations, nor shall it include solid wastes resulting from industrial processes and manufacturing operations such as food processing wastes, boilerhouse cinders, lumber, scraps, and shavings.
(Ord. 11-01, passed 1-4-2011)