For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
AUTHORIZED COLLECTOR. A person, firm or corporation with whom the city has contracted for the collection, removal and disposal of garbage and rubbish.
BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENT. Stores, restaurants, hotels, offices, wholesale establishments, retail establishments, hospitals, plants, shops, manufacturing establishments, schools and churches. (The term is not construed to include apartments, flats, private dwellings or boarding houses.)
GARBAGE. Food wastes from homes, kitchens, apartments and similar establishments.
RUBBISH. Refuse such as waste paper, rags, cartons, boxes, excelsior, leather, cloth, material, shrub trimmings tied in bundles not to exceed two feet in length, yard trimmings, tin cans, glass bottles, crockery, ashes and clinkers from heating plant furnaces, or other materials light in weight and easily handled or a combination of any two or more of the foregoing types of materials. RUBBISH does not include ashes or cinders from other than household or small heating plants, tree limbs, street sweepings, catch basin murk, concrete, dirt, concrete mortar or plaster mortar, stones, bricks, scrap metal or other similar construction materials resulting from the erection or destruction of buildings.
(1999 Code, § 17-1-1)