For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ADEQUATE CONTAINER. A non-combustible, 55-gallon barrel or drum sufficiently vented to induce adequate primary combustion air with enclosed sides, a bottom, and a mesh covering with openings no larger than one-quarter inch square.
AIR POLLUTANTS. Any substances such as cinder fly ash, smoke fumes, gas mist, and offensive odors.
AIR POLLUTION. The presence in the outdoor atmosphere of substances in quantities, having characteristics and being of duration which are with reasonable certainty injurious to human life and property or which unreasonably interfere with the enjoyment of life and property due to the emission of odors, vapors, liquids, or gases.
COMBUSTIBLE MATERIALS. Any waste or substance which is easily inflammable such as tree leaves, papers, cartons, paper boxes, dry limbs, or dry grass cuttings.
ENFORCEMENT OFFICER. The Police Chief or Code Enforcement Officer or their designated agents.
NON-COMBUSTIBLE MATERIALS. Any waste material or substance not easily flammable, such as clothing, bedding, garbage, fresh grass clippings, fresh tree leaves, mattresses, tires or other rubber products, automobile hunks, furniture, rugs, rags, cans, waste foodstuff, dead animals, animal excrement, sawdust, and any material which is subject to slow combustion usually emitting smoke, offensive odors, fumes, gases, or similar pollutants.
NUISANCE. Environmental conditions, intermittent or continuous, produced or correctable by a person, prejudicial to the reasonable enjoyment of health, comfort, or safety of an individual or causing injury or damage to persons and property.
OPEN BURNING. The burning of any materials wherein air contaminants resulting from combustion are emitted directly into the air, without passing through a stack or chimney from an enclosed chamber.
SMOKE. Any small gas borne particles resulting from incomplete combustion and present in sufficient quantity to be visually observable.
SOURCE. Any real or personal property or person contributing to air pollution.
VIOLATOR. A person contributing to air pollution in violation of standards established in this section.
(Ord. 2012-5, passed 6-12-2012)