For the purpose of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings ascribed to them respectively:
(A)
COMMERCIAL OPERATOR. All persons, firms, or corporations who own or operate stores, restaurants, industries, institutions, and other similar places, public or private, charitable or noncharitable, and includes all responsible persons other than householders, upon the premises of which garbage, other refuse, or both is created.
(B)
GARBAGE. All putrescible wastes, except human excreta, sewage, and other water-carried wastes, including vegetable and animal offal and carcasses of dead animals, and shall include all substances from all public and private establishments and from all residences.
(C)
HOUSEHOLDER. The head of a family or one maintaining separate living quarters, and shall include owners, tenants, and occupants of all premises where garbage or other refuse or both is created. Nothing in this definition shall be construed to apply to commercial operators as hereinafter defined.
(D)
OTHER REFUSE. Ashes, glass, crockery, tin cans, paper, boxes, rags and old clothing, and all other similar nonputrescible wastes. The term shall not include any material such as earth, sand, brick, stone, plaster, or other similar substances that may accumulate as a result of construction operations.
(E)
PREMISES. Land or buildings or both, or parts of either or both, occupied by a householder or a commercial operator.
(`59 Code, § 941.01)