(a) "Automated lift container" means a container with a hinged lid that is designed to be lifted, dumped, and returned by refuse collection vehicles that have a mechanical lifting device.
(b) "Authorized containers," where automated service is not authorized, means containers which are sturdy, leak-proof, metal, rubber or plastic containers with lids, ten to thirty-two gallons capacity, loaded weight not exceeding fifty pounds and approved by the City and the City's contracted private collector may be used for refuse collection. Oil or other drums or containers with sharp edges are not acceptable. Cardboard boxes, when in sturdy condition, are acceptable only for dry materials loaded weight not exceeding twenty-five pounds and not having sharp edges.
(c) "Bin" means a metal container, approved by the City and the city's contracted private collector for the deposit of refuse (loose or compacted), which shall:
(1) Have a close-fitting cover where required by the director;
(2) Be leak-proof and fly-proof;
(3) Be free of sharp, rough, or jagged surfaces or edges likely to cause injury;
(4) Uses casters or other means for easy movement (for bins up to four cubic yards in size);
(5) Be designed in a manner to be emptied mechanically.
(d) "Box" (roll-off) means a large metal container approved by the City and the City's contracted private collector for the deposit of refuse or rubble, which shall:
(1) Be leak-proof if carrying wet wastes;
(2) Be free of sharp, rough, or jagged surfaces or edges likely to cause injury;
(3) Have the ability to be covered with a tarpaulin, lid, or other suitable covering;
(4) Be compatible to be safely lifted onto City roll-off trucks.
(e) "Bulky wastes" means and includes large items of solid waste such as appliances, furniture, large auto parts, trees, large branches, stumps, asphalt, concrete, large rock, and other oversize wastes of large size which precludes or complicates handling by normal collection or disposal methods.
(f) "Bundle" means a package containing rubbish only, not exceeding four feet in its longest dimension, two feet in diameter nor twenty-five pounds in weight, securely tied with cord or rope of sufficient strength to permit lifting and carrying of the full weight thereof without spillage or leakage, and placed for collection immediately adjacent to a standard or authorized container including, but not limited to, the following:
(1) Tree limbs;
(2) Brush and prunings;
(3) Magazines and newspapers.
(g) "Commercial enterprise" means any retail, wholesale, manufacturing, construction or service enterprise, but does not include apartment buildings or those parts of apartment buildings exclusively used as a family unit.
(h) "Dead animals" means all dead animals and parts thereof not intended to be used for food for human consumption.
(i) "Director" means the director(s) of the department(s) responsible for carrying out the provisions of this chapter.
(j) "Family unit" means an occupied residential dwelling unit, whether a single-family home or one of the basic dwelling units of a duplex, double house, triplex or multi-unit apartment building, forming a single unit and used for living and sleeping purposes, having its own cooking facilities, bathroom with a toilet, and a bathroom or shower.
(k) "Garbage":
(1) Includes all kitchen and table food waste and animal, fruit or vegetable waste that attends or results from the storage, sale, preparation, cooking or handling of food stuffs;
(2) Uncleaned containers originally used for foodstuffs;
(3) Consists of every accumulation of animal, vegetable, and other matter that attends the sale, preparation, consumption, dealing in or storage of meats, fish, fowl, birds, fruits or vegetables;
(4) All other abandoned putrescible organic matter. The term garbage does not include dishwater or wastewater.
(l) "Non-family unit" means a firm, proprietorship, partnership, corporation, society, church, association or instrumentality of government that occupies all or part of a building or adjacent buildings and generates refuse for collection at a defined place on or near the premises. Does not include any apartments located within the building housing the "non-family unit."
(m) "Hazardous wastes" shall have the same meaning as is defined in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania statutes or regulations.
(n) "Infectious wastes" shall have the same meaning as defined in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania statutes and regulations.
(o) "Nuisance" means anything which is injurious to health or is offensive to the senses or an obstruction to the free use of property so as to interfere with a person's comfort or enjoyment of life or property, or which affects at the same time an entire community or neighborhood or any considerable number of persons, although the extent of the annoyance or damage inflicted upon individuals may be unequal.
(p) "Person" means any individual, partnership, corporation, association, or any other entity that owns, controls or occupies any property within the City.
(q) "Property" means each individual commercial or industrial establishment or dwelling unit.
(r) "Private collector" means a person who or which is in the business of collecting refuse from commercial enterprises and non-family units, other than his, her or its own business or non-family unit.
(s) "Putrescible wastes" means and includes wastes that are capable of being decomposed by micro-organisms with sufficient rapidity as to cause nuisances because of odors, gases, or other offensive conditions, and include materials such as food wastes and offal.
(t) "Refuse" means all putrescible and non-putrescible solid waste, except body waste, including garbage, rubbish, street cleanings and dead animals.
(u) "Rubbish" means all organic or inorganic materials, not defined herein as garbage or rubble, which are rejected, abandoned or discarded by the owners, or producers thereof, as offensive or useless or no longer desired by such owners or producers. These materials include, but are not limited to, corrugated cardboard, paper, wood, rags, used clothing; discarded or abandoned bedding; discarded or abandoned carpets; discarded or abandoned oil cloth and linoleum; sweepings, cuttings, or cleanings from buildings, yards, lawns or gardens; bottles, tin cans or containers which have no food residue; broken crockery and glassware; old metal, wire packing or wrapping materials; ashes; trimmings from lawns, shrubs, plants or trees; rope, twine, jute, bagging, or burlap.
(v) "Rubble" means rocks, concrete, bricks and similar solid material; plaster, dirt, and similar abandoned or discarded inorganic, noncombustible, nonputrescible materials; building construction, or demolition waste materials; sod.
(Ord. 4275. Passed 5-26-82; Ord. 4982. Passed 12-19-05; Ord. 5274. Passed 8-14-19.)