For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
FAMILY DOMESTIC UNIT. Any single independent family unit, irrespective of the number of persons constituting the family, but shall not include a situation where more than one family lives together in any single residence or abode, but in such situation, each of the independent families shall be deemed and regarded as a separate and distinct family domestic unit. Each independent family unit living in a multiple dwelling residence, apartment house, or any type of residence (including mobile homes other than mobile homes in a licensed mobile home court) shall each be deemed a FAMILY DOMESTIC UNIT for the purposes of this chapter. A rooming house that supplies lodging only for hire and which does not serve meals to any lodgers and does not permit cooking and eating on the premises shall be deemed a FAMILY DOMESTIC UNIT for the purposes of this chapter.
GARBAGE. Solid and semisolid putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling, preparing, cooking, storing, serving or consuming of food, or of material intended for use as food, and all offal, excluding useful industrial byproducts, from all public and private establishments and from all residences.
MULTI-FAMILY UNIT. A residential duplex to four-plex unit for the purpose of town garbage collection.
REFUSE. Putrescible and non-putrescible wastes, including, but not limited to, garbage, rubbish, ashes, incinerator ash, incinerator residues, street cleanings, market and industrial solid wastes, and sewage treatment wastes in dry or semisolid form.
RUBBISH. Non-putrescible solid waste consisting of combustible and noncombustible wastes, such as ashes, paper, cardboard, tin cans, yard clippings, wood, glass, bedding, crockery, trees or portions of trees, or other litter with similar properties.
SCAVENGING. The unauthorized removal of an item(s) from a town-owned garbage can, recycling can, roll-off container, or solid waste property, including the landfill and material recovery facility.
YARD WASTE. Natural, non-putrescible solid vegetation waste produced by commercial or private residential landscaping activities. The waste shall include lawn cuttings, lawn rakings, branches, trees, garden waste, and other similar waste vegetative material, all free of other debris or rubbish.
(Ord. passed 6-19-2018)