For the purpose of this article, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates, or requires, a different meaning:
ASHES. The residue from the burning of wood, coal, coke, or other combustible materials.
BUILDING MATERIALS. Scrap building material from the construction, reconstruction, remodeling, or repair of a building, walkway, driveway, sign, and other structure, including, but not limited to, excavated earth, tree stumps, rocks, gravel, bricks, plaster, concrete, lumber, or any other similar material used in construction, or the containers or wrappings thereof.
COMMERCIAL OR BUSINESS UNIT. Any building, or structure, in or from which a business, trade, or commerce is conducted.
DIRECTOR. The Director of Public Works of the town.
GARBAGE. All putrescible wastes, including animal and vegetable matter, animal offal and carcasses, and recognizable industrial by-products, but excluding sewage and human wastes.
HAZARDOUS REFUSE. Any materials such as poison, acids, caustics, reactive chemicals, infected material, radioactive, or explosives.
MULTIPLE RESIDENTIAL UNIT. Any duplex apartment, or group of apartments, under a single roof and used for dwelling places for more than one family.
REFUSE. All putrescible and non-putrescible wastes, except body wastes, including garbage, rubbish, ashes, street cleanings, dead animals, abandoned automobiles, and solid market and industrial wastes.
REQUIRED CONTAINER. A covered container not to exceed 96 gallons designed for use by residential units for storage of garbage and other miscellaneous refuse.
RUBBISH. Non-putrescible solid wastes, excluding ashes, consisting of both combustible and noncombustible wastes, such as paper, cardboard, tin cans, yard clippings, wood, glass, bedding, crockery, and similar materials.
SINGLE RESIDENTIAL UNIT. Any dwelling place occupied by one family.
SMALL DEAD ANIMALS. Cats, dogs, and small household pets of 70 pounds, or less, in weight.
SOLID WASTE. Garbage, refuse, rubbish, trash, and other discarded solid materials, including solid waste materials resulting from homes, businesses, industrial, commercial, and agricultural operations, and from community activities, but does not include solids or dissolved materials in domestic sewage, or other significant pollutants in water resources, such as silt, dissolved or suspended solids in industrial waste water effluents, dissolved materials in irrigation return flows, or other common water pollutants.
(Ord. 16-92, passed 8-3-1992)