For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
COMMERCIAL OPERATOR. All persons, firms, or corporations who own or operate stores, restaurants, industries, institutions, and other similar places, public or private, charitable or non-charitable, and including all responsible persons other than householders, upon the premises of which garbage or other refuse or both is or are created.
GARBAGE. All putrescible wastes, except human excreta, sewage, and other water-carried wastes, including vegetable and animal offal and carcasses of dead animals, and all such substances from all public and private establishments and from all residences.
HOUSEHOLDER. The head of a family or one maintaining separate living quarters, including owners, tenants, and occupants of all premises where garbage or other refuse or both is or are created. Nothing in this definition shall be construed to apply to “commercial operators” defined above.
OTHER REFUSE. Ashes, glass, crockery, tin cans, paper, boxes, rags and old clothing, and all similar non-putrescible wastes. The term shall not include any material such as earth, sand, brick, stone, plaster, or other similar substances that may accumulate as a result of construction operations.
PREMISES. Land or buildings or both, or parts of either or both, occupied by a householder or a commercial operator.
(1982 Code, § 92.01) (Ord. 1956-19, passed 10-1-1956)