For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BAGS. Plastic sacks designed to store refuse with sufficient wall strength to maintain physical integrity when lifted by the top. Total weight of a bag and its contents shall not exceed 35 pounds.
BULKY WASTE. Stoves, refrigerators, water tanks, washing machines, furniture and other waste materials other than construction debris, dead animals, hazardous waste or stable matter with weights or volumes greater than those allowed for polycarts or metal dumpsters, as the case may be.
CONSTRUCTION DEBRIS. Waste building materials resulting from construction, remodeling, repair or demolition operations.
DEAD ANIMALS. Animals or portions thereof equal to or greater than ten pounds in weight that have expired from any cause, except those slaughtered or killed for human use.
GARBAGE. Every accumulation of animal or vegetable matter or both; that is, the refuse matter from kitchens, pantries, dining rooms or other parts of hotels, restaurants, boarding houses, tenement houses, dwelling houses, market houses, public institutions, private hospitals, all animal matter or refuse matter from butcher shops, the animal matter from poultry houses or stores, the refuse animal matter from fish stores or other businesses or occupations, any and all dead animals of less than ten pounds in weight, except those slaughtered for human consumption; every accumulation of waste (animal, vegetable and/or other matter) that results from the preparation, processing, consumption, dealing in, handling, packing, canning, storage, transportation, decay or decomposition of meats, fish, fowl, birds, fruits, grains or other animal or vegetable matter (including, not by way of limitation, used tin cans and other food containers and all putrescible or easily decomposable waste animal or vegetable matter which is likely to attract flies or rodents); except, in all cases, any matter included in the definition of bulky waste, construction debris, dead animals, hazardous waste, rubbish or stable matter.
HAZARDOUS WASTE. Waste, in any amount, which is defined, characterized or designated as hazardous by the United States Environmental Protection Agency or appropriate state agency by or pursuant to federal or state law and shall also include motor oil, gasoline, paint and paint cans.
POLYCART. A durable plastic container with an attached lid and designed to hold 95 gallons of materials.
REFUSE. All waste wood, wood products, three trimmings, grass cuttings, dead plants, weeds, leaves, dead trees or branches thereof, chips, shavings, sawdust, printed matter, paper, pasteboard, rags, straw, used and discarded mattresses, used and discarded clothing, used and discarded shoes and boots, combustible waste pulp and other products, such as are used for packaging or wrapping crockery and
glass, broken ware, tin cans or vessels, iron or other metallic vessels or their parts or other metallic scraps, wood or paper boxes, cartons or other parts of paper material, ashes, cinders, floor sweepings, glass, mineral or metallic substances, all animal and vegetable matter not defined as garbage and any and all other waste materials not included in the definition of bulky waste or stable matter.
STABLE MATTER. All manure and other waste matter normally accumulated in or about a stable, or any animal, livestock or poultry enclosure, and resulting from the keeping of animals, poultry or livestock.
(`90 Code, § 9-4) (Am. Ord. 2999, passed 3-21-95)