For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ASHES. Combustible residue of such fuel as wood, coal, coke, charcoal, and the like.
COMBUSTIBLE WASTE. All waste substance capable of incineration or burning, including garbage, paper, rags, excelsior, wood, grass, leaves, and the like.
COMMERCIAL WASTE. All combustible and noncombustible waste, arising out of operations of business and industry, and all other wastes not resulting from the ordinary operations of private residences or households.
GARBAGE. All purtrescible wastes, including vegetable and animal offal, carcasses of dead animals, and the like, excluding recognized industrial by- products.
NONCOMBUSTIBLE WASTE. All waste substance incapable of incineration or burning, including tin cans, tinware, and other metallic substances, bottles, glassware, earthenware, ashes, and the like, and also discarded articles the greater part of which is incapable of incineration or burning, such as asphalt roofing material and electric batteries.
WASTE.
(1) All trash, rubbish, garbage, offal, and other refuse or discarded matter required to be removed from private and public places.
(2) It shall not include recognized by- products of any business or industry having commercial value and handled in the ordinary course of business, unless the by-products, or handling of them, become nuisances or menaces to the public health.
(1967 Code, § 51.01) (Ord. O-6-41, passed 10-27-1941)