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For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms, phrases and words shall have the meanings given in this section:
APARTMENT HOUSE: A building comprising four (4) or more dwelling units designed for separate housekeeping tenements.
CINDERS: The residue of materials burned in boilers, furnaces and heating plants of public buildings, places of business, apartment houses, hotels and manufacturing plants.
COMMUNITY WASTE: Lawn cuttings, clippings from bushes and shrubs, leaves, sweepings from yards, tin cans, boiler ashes, newspapers, magazines, cardboard cartons and stove ashes, but not building materials.
GARBAGE: Swill and all animal, vegetable and food refuse from kitchens of residences, hotels, cafes, restaurants and places where food is prepared for human consumption.
MARKET WASTE: Condemned or decayed or unsound vegetables, meat, fish and fruit, and all waste and offal thereof from markets, stores and factories, and all vegetable waste from such markets, stores and factories.
NIGHT SOIL: The contents from privy vaults, cesspools, septic tanks, grease tanks and water closets.
PLACE OF BUSINESS: Any place in the city in which there is conducted or carried on principally or exclusively any pursuit or occupation by any person or persons for the purpose of gaining a livelihood.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND PLACES: Office buildings, theaters, garages, auto camps, hotels, clubs, churches, schools, hospitals or other places of similar character.
REFUSE:
A. 1. Combustible trash, including, but not limited to, paper, newspapers, cartons, boxes, barrels, wood, excelsior, tree branches, yard trimmings, wood furniture, bedding;
2. Noncombustible trash, including, but not limited to, metal, tin cans, metal furniture, dirt, small quantities of rock and pieces of concrete, glass, crockery, other mineral wastes; and
3. Street rubbish, including, but not limited to, street sweepings, dirt, leaves, catch basin dirt, and contents of litter receptacles.
B. "Refuse" shall not, however, include earth and wastes from building operations, nor shall it include solid wastes resulting from industrial processes and manufacturing operations such as food processing wastes, boiler house cinders, lumber, scraps and shavings.
RESIDENCES: Buildings or dwellings comprising not more than three (3) dwelling units designed for separate housekeeping tenements, and where no business of any kind is conducted except such "home occupations" as are defined in the land use ordinances of the city. Condominiums shall be deemed residences for the purposes of this chapter.
STOVE ASHES: The residue of material burned in stoves and furnaces in private residences, but not the residue from furnaces in apartment houses, hotels, business houses, heating or manufacturing plants.
TRADE WASTE: All discarded wooden boxes, barrels, broken lumber, cardboard boxes, cartons, waste paper, leather, rubber, excelsior, cuttings, sweepings, rags and other inflammable waste materials, and all discarded trade or manufacturing refuse from stores, factories or other places of business which are not included within the definition of garbage, stove ashes and marked waste.
WASTE DISPOSAL CONTRACTOR: A person or persons engaged in the business of collecting, hauling or transporting through the streets of the city any garbage, community waste, dishes, cinders, trade waste, market waste, night soil, manure, dead animals, bones, or any noxious or offensive material or matter for disposal or for any other purpose. (1999 Code; amd. Ord. 2012-15, 9-20-2012)
All waste disposal shall be subject to the discretion and control of the board of health. It shall be the particular duty of the board of health to make rules and regulations and to enforce the provisions of this chapter in reference to garbage, scavenger and waste disposal work. (1999 Code)
It shall be the duty of the board of health, or other appointed officials, to declare worn out, rusted or filthy containers, as described in this code, public nuisances; and it is unlawful for any person, group of persons or commercial establishment to continue to use such containers. It shall be the duty of such persons or commercial establishment to clean or replace said containers with adequate containers, as described in this code. (1999 Code)
It is unlawful for any person, association, corporation, fraternity or religious order, or any group or single person, whether a legal entity or not, to dump, put, place or abandon any cinders, common waste, garbage, market waste, trade waste, organic material, refuse, stove ashes, building materials, machinery, equipment, automobiles, furniture, junk or waste of any nature, or to dump, put, place or deposit upon any private property any of the above items without the consent of the owner; and even though the consent is obtained, if the materials placed upon the property have a tendency to become obnoxious, a nuisance or a danger to the health, welfare, peace or safety, or which annoy the repose of any party, that said property shall be immediately, as soon as physically feasible under the circumstances, covered or conditioned in such a manner as to remove the objectionable features of the materials deposited. (1999 Code)
It determining the meaning of any terms used in this section and section 9.52.050 of this chapter, reference shall be made to section 9.52.010 of this chapter for the definition of such words insofar as they are defined, and they shall have the meaning as set forth in section 9.52.010 of this chapter. Any other words used, unless having a special connotation, will be construed in the usual and ordinary sense, in accordance with the normal parlance insofar as possible. (1999 Code)
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