When used in this chapter, the following words and terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section:
CONTAINER: Any city provided refuse, recyclables, or green waste carts or other receptacle. When referring to the storage of such carts, the term "container" refers to all of the aforementioned carts.
CONTAINERIZED SERVICE: Service approved by the director of public works wherein the city provides a vehicle equipped for mechanical handling of one, two (2) and three (3) cubic yard containers with casters. Said containers shall be provided by the customer and shall be a type and shall be placed in a location approved by the public works director.
GARBAGE: Table refuse and offal swill and every accumulation of animal, vegetable and other matter that attends the preparation, consumption, decay, dealing in or storage of meats, fish, fowl, fruit and other foods of whatever character and shall include all animal and vegetable refuse from kitchens and all household waste that shall have been prepared for or intended to be used as food or shall have resulted from the preparation of food. Dead animals over ten (10) pounds in weight, dishwater or wastewater are not included under garbage.
GREEN WASTE: Grass clippings, weeds, leaves, small branches, sod, clean dirt, lumber (without nails or glue), plants and sawdust.
PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR: Person employed in the position of director of public works for the city of Lemoore, or his designee, in matters relating to this chapter.
RECYCLABLES: Aluminum cans, tin cans, glass bottles, plastic bottles, empty food household goods containers made entirely of glass, plastic, aluminum, or tin; fiber products such as newspaper, magazines, books, catalogs, telephone books, school or business papers, paper grocery bags, and empty cardboard boxes.
REFUSE: Each of the definitions of "garbage", "rubbish" and "waste matter" contained in this section.
RUBBISH: Leaves, chips, woodenware, paper, pasteboard, grass, rags, shoes, hats, sawdust, packing material, shavings, trimmings from lawns and flower gardens and boxes, tin cans and bottles.
UTILITY: A system, plant, works, facilities or undertaking for:
A. The collection, treatment or disposal of sewage, or
B. The obtaining, conserving, treating and supplying of water, or
C. Sanitation or garbage removal or disposal system.
WASTE MATTER: Brickbats, plaster, cement, broken crockery, broken glass, broken bottles, earth and ashes, cinders, shells, metals and other noncombustible waste materials; provided, however, that the words "waste matter" shall not include any material leftover from the repair or construction of buildings, sidewalks or other improvements. (Ord. 8402, 3-20-1984; amd. Ord. 9904, 5-18-1999; Ord. 2006-05, 7-18-2006; Ord. 2011-06, 12-6-2011)