For purposes of this chapter the following definitions shall apply:
(a) "Garbage" means all putrescible waste except sewage and body waste, including vegetable and animal offal and carcasses of small dead animals, but excluding recognizable industrial by-products, and shall include all such substances from all public and private establishments and from all residents.
(b) "Rubbish" means ashes, bottles, broken glass, crockery, tin cans, cast iron, printed matter, paper, boots, shoes, hats and other clothing. It does not, however, include any material in the nature of earth, sand, brick, stone, plaster, ashes or other substances that may accumulate as a result of building operations.
(c) "City" means the City of Martins Ferry, Ohio.
(d) "Director" means the Director of Public Service of the City.
(e) "Householder" means the head of a family or one maintaining his separate living rooms or quarters on the premises and includes owners, tenants and occupants of all premises upon which garbage or rubbish, or both, is created.
(f) "Premises" means land or buildings, or both, or parts of either or both, occupied by one householder or commercial establishment.
(g) "Commercial establishment" means and includes all other premises and institutions, public or private, charitable or non-charitable, upon which garbage or rubbish, or both, is created.
(h) "Garbage collector" means the City, and each and all of its duly authorized agents and/or employees connected with the collection and disposal of garbage or rubbish, or both.
(i) "Collecting agent" means each and all employees of the City charged with the duty of collecting or receiving fees, or both, for collecting and disposing of garbage or rubbish by the City.
(j) The term "person" as used herein shall mean every natural person or association of persons, a partnership or corporation. Words in the singular shall include the plural, words in the present tense shall include the future tense and vice versa; words in the masculine gender shall include the feminine gender and vice versa.
(k) "Hazardous waste" means those substances which, singularly or in combination, pose a significant present or potential threat or hazard to human health or to the environment, and which singularly or in combination, require special handling, processing, or disposal because they are or may be flammable, explosive, reactive, corrosive, toxic, carcinogenic, bioconcentrative, or persistent in nature, potentially lethal, or an irritant or strong sensitizer.
(1) "Asbestos" means the asbestiform varieties of serpentinite (chrysolite), riebeckite (crodidolite), cummintonitegrunerite, anthopyllite, and actinolite tremolite.
(m) "Asbestos-containing waste materials" means those wastes identified in Chapter 3745-20-0l(B)(4) of the Ohio Administrative Code (OAC).
(n) "Infectious waste" means those wastes identified in Chapter 3745-27-01 (V) of the Ohio Administrative Code (OAC).
(Ord. 2000-24. Passed 3-13-00.)