For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BRUSH MATERIAL. All accumulations of shrubbery cuttings, palm fronds, or tree limbs.
BULK WASTE. Waste that may require special handling and management, and which by reason of bulk, shape, or weight cannot be placed in a container, BULK WASTE includes but not is not limited to: furniture, fixtures, mattresses, discarded appliances or parts thereof, equipment, bicycles, other household items that are customary to ordinary housekeeping operations of a residential unit, metals, and scrap metal, including but not limited to white goods, duct work, sheet metal, light iron and unprepared scrap iron. Excluded materials include liquids, garbage, explosives, hazardous waste, radioactive waste, body waste, dead animals, and fuel tanks.
COMMERCIAL ACCOUNTS. Any person receiving sanitation service other than one- or two-family residences, and includes accounts designated as industrial accounts and accounts for the collection, conveyance or disposal of construction and demolition material, rocks or soil.
DUMPSTER. A container with a tight fitting lid and a minimum capacity of one cubic yard and approved for use by the Director of Public Works or his or her designee. For purposes of this chapter, bulk containers and/or compact containers shall be considered dumpsters.
ENCLOSURE. Any structure designed for the storage of garbage receptacles for which the necessary permits have been obtained from the city's Department of Planning and Development Services.
GARBAGE. Includes all kitchen and table refuse, all general combustible waste, such as paper and rags, paperboard boxes, and every accumulation of animal and vegetable matter that attend the preparation, decay, dealing in or storage of food such as: meats, fish, fowl, game, fruits and vegetables.
GROSS RECEIPTS. All monies received from all COMMERCIAL ACCOUNTS for providing collection, conveyance, or disposal services with respect to materials other than recycled materials, and includes monies received from container rentals, hydraulic equipment rentals, electrical equipment rentals, recoveries on bad debts, interest, penalties, late charges, advertising, and any other services provided by the private contractor. Gross receipts shall not include the amount of the city franchise fee when such is separately and accurately delineated on the billing statement to a customer.
PERSON. Any individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company or organization of any kind.
RECOVERED MATERIALS. Metal, paper, glass, plastic, textile, or rubber materials that have known recycling potential, can be feasibly recycled, and have been diverted and source separated or have been removed from the solid waste stream for sale, use, or reuse as raw materials, whether or not the materials require subsequent processing or separation from each other, but does not include materials destined for any use that constitutes disposal. In accordance with F.S. § 403.703(7), recovered materials as described above are not solid waste.
RUBBISH. Any accumulation of useless material other than garbage, brush material, or unacceptable waste.
SOLID WASTE. Sludge unregulated under the federal Clean Water Act or Clean Air Act, sludge from a waste treatment works, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility, or garbage, rubbish, refuse, special waste, or other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material resulting from domestic, industrial, commercial, mining, agricultural, or governmental operations. Recovered materials as defined in this section are not solid waste.
SOURCE SEPARATED. Recovered materials separated from solid waste where the recovered materials and solid waste are generated. The term does not require that various types of recovered materials be separated from each other and recognizes that de minimus solid waste, in accordance with industry standards and practices, may be included in the recovered materials. Materials are not considered source separated when two or more types of recovered materials are deposited in combination with each other in a commercial collection container located where the materials are generated and such materials contain more than 10% solid waste by volume or weight. For purposes of this definition, the term "various types of recovered materials" means metals, paper, glass, plastic, textiles, and rubber.
UNACCEPTABLE WASTE. Includes motor vehicles, trailers, or other bulky items of machinery or equipment, highly inflammable substances, hazardous waste, sludge, pathological and biological wastes, liquid wastes, sewage, manure, feces (except from small pets), explosives and ordnance materials, radioactive materials, construction and demolition material, rocks, and soil.
YARD WASTE. Includes grass clippings, loose leaves, and other miscellaneous garden trash.
(‘72 Code, § 13-1) (Ord. 21, passed - - ; Am. Ord. O-68-129, passed - - ; Am. Ord. O-94-19, passed 6-1-94; Am. Ord. O-95-08, passed 2-15-95; Am. Ord. O-97-01, passed 2-5-97; Am. Ord. O-2004-15, passed 6-2-04; Am. Ord. O-2006-14, passed 5-3- 06; Am. Ord. O-2008-02, passed 1-16-08; Am. Ord. O-2010-35, passed 10-6-10; Am. Ord. O-2020-10, passed 9-2-20)