For purposes of this chapter, the following words and phases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them this section:
(a) "Act 94" means Act 94, Public Acts of Michigan, 1933, as amended.
(b) "Act 279" means Act 279, Public Acts of Michigan, 1909, as amended.
(c) "Ash" shall mean the residue from the burning of wood, coal, coke or other combustible materials including incinerator ash and residue.
(d) "Authorized garbage bags" shall mean plastic bags or labels for holding residential refuse pursuant to Section 1060.04(e)(8). The bag size shall be 30 gallon.
(e) "Bulk waste" shall mean any item that is too large for placement in a residential refuse container or a recycling container. "Bulk waste" shall include such things as mattresses, furniture, small appliances, and tires. "Bulk waste" shall be free of all liquids.
(f) "City" shall mean the City of Ionia, Michigan.
(g) "Commercial establishments" shall mean all household units containing eleven or more residential units, all businesses, non-profit organizations, churches, governmental agencies, and other such institutions which cannot be classified as residential structures.
(h) "Commercial refuse" shall mean the miscellaneous waste material such as garbage, rubbish, ash, and debris resulting from operation of commercial establishments.
(i) "Contractor" shall mean the entity selected by the City Council pursuant to Section 1060.03 of this chapter that enters into a contract with the City to carry out the City's responsibility to collect and dispose of residential refuse, recyclables, yard waste, bulk waste, or any portion thereof.
(j) "Debris" shall mean the remains of something broken down or destroyed.
(k) "Director" shall mean the Director of the City Department of Community Development.
(l) "Domestic refuse" shall mean the waste material resulting from the usual routine of housekeeping including garbage, rubbish, and ash.
(m) "Garbage" shall mean decomposable solid waste which consists of rejected food waste being the waste accumulation of animal, fruit or vegetable matter intended for or used as food or utilized for preparation, cooking, dealing in or storing of meat, fish, fowl, fruit or vegetables, and of animal and fowl excrement.
(n) "Licensed hauler" shall mean an entity granted a license to operate as a licensed hauler within the City pursuant to Section 1060.07 of this chapter and who has paid all applicable license fees and charges.
(o) "Manager" shall mean the City Manager of the City.
(p) "Municipal refuse" shall mean refuse granted by the City or on property owned by the City.
(q) "Recyclables" shall mean paper, plastics, tin, aluminum, or glass and as may be more specifically defined by rule or regulation.
(r) "Refuse" shall mean decomposable and nondecomposable solid waste, except body wastes. Refuse shall include garbage, rubbish, ash and debris. Refuse shall not include recyclables, yard waste or bulk waste.
(s) "Residential contract" shall mean the contract entered into between the City and the contractor pursuant to Section 1060.03 of this chapter.
(t) "Residential refuse" shall mean refuse from residential structures within the City. "Residential refuse" shall not include oils and greases, pesticide products, paints, thinners, lacquers, recyclables, yard waste or bulk waste.
(u) "Residential refuse container" shall mean receptacles designated by the Manager for use in the collection of residential refuse pursuant to this chapter.
(v) "Residential structure" shall mean any building or structure containing ten residential units) or less within the City.
(w) "Residential unit" shall mean a single-family house, and each unit of a condominium, cooperative, duplex house, or apartment building that is used for residential purposes.
(x) "Rubbish" shall mean nondecomposable solid waste, excluding ash, consisting of both combustible and noncombustible waste such as paper, cardboard, cans, wood, glass, bedding, crockery, rubber, nags, leather, straw, scrap tires, auto parts, furniture and appliances.
(y) "System" shall mean the City of Ionia Residential Refuse Collection and Recycling System, which shall include all facilities, equipment, other property and contracts of the City dedicated to and used in connection with providing for the collection of residential refuse, recyclables, yard waste, and bulk waste from the residential structures in the City.
(z) "Yard waste" shall mean grass clippings, leaves, plants and branches no larger than four feet in length or three inches in diameter.
(aa) "Yard waste container" shall mean the receptacles designated by the Manager for use in the collection of yard waste pursuant to this chapter.
(Ord. 05-2002-01. Passed 7-2-02.)