As used in this chapter:
(a) “APPROVED CONTAINER” means a commercially manufactured container designed for burning.
(b) “ATTENDANCE” means the constant presence of a responsible person in the immediate vicinity of open burning, a bonfire or a recreational fire until the fire is extinguished, with a minimum of one (1) portable fire extinguisher having a minimum of a 4-A rating or other approved on-site fire extinguishing equipment such as dirt, sand, a water barrel, a garden hose or a water tank truck available for immediate use.
(c) “BONFIRE” means a type of outdoor burning characterized by an outdoor fire having a total fuel area greater than that contained in a recreational fire and used for ceremonial purposes.
(d) “OBJECTIONABLE” means undesirable or offensive or of a character as to give painful or unpleasant sensations.
(e) “OPEN BURNING” means a type of outdoor burning characterized by the burning of materials wherein products of combustion are emitted directly into the ambient air without passing through a stack or chimney from an enclosed chamber. Open burning does not include road flares, smudge pots and similar devices associated with safety or occupational uses typically considered open flames or recreational fires. For the purpose of this definition, a chamber shall be regarded as enclosed when, during the time combustion occurs, only apertures, ducts, stacks, flues or chimneys necessary to provide air and permit the exhaust gas are open.
(f) “RESIDENTIAL WASTE” means any matter, including landscape wastes, generated on a one-, two- or three-family residence as a result of residential activities, but not including garbage.
(g) “RECREATIONAL FIRE” means a type of outdoor burning characterized by an outdoor fire burning materials other than waste where the fuel being burned is not contained in an incinerator, outdoor fireplace, barbecue grill or barbecue pit and has a total fuel area of three feet or less in diameter and two feet or less in height for pleasure, religious, ceremonial, cooking, warmth or similar purposes.
(h) “STACK” or “CHIMNEY” means a vertical structure containing one or more flues for the purpose of carrying gaseous products of combustion and air from a fuel-burning appliance to the outside atmosphere meeting the requirements of the Ohio Mechanical Code.
(i) “STRUCTURE” means that which is built or constructed.
(j) “WASTE” means any discarded or useless material, including, but not limited to, agricultural waste, garbage, land clearing waste, landscape waste, residential waste and trash. (Ord. 48-10. Passed 9-8-10.)