For the purpose of this article, the following definitions apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
COMMERCIAL UNIT. A store, retail or wholesale business, warehouse, industrial plant, professional office, bank, restaurant, hotel or motel.
DEPOSITOR. A person who places or directs trash to be placed in a receptacle in which he or she is entitled to place trash, as required in this article.
MULTIPLE-FAMILY UNIT. A building or part of a building designed or used as an apartment house, apartment complex, tenement house or other residential use, which structure is used or intended to be used for occupancy by more than one family.
SINGLE-FAMILY UNIT. A house, apartment or mobile home designed and intended for one-family occupancy.
TRASH. Paper and paper products, empty tin cans, empty bottles, empty glass containers, any off-falls from kitchen and cooking and plastic products. Exceptions are as follows:
(1) Liquids;
(2) Liquid or water-carried wastes, which are normally disposed of in sanitary sewer systems;
(3) Hazardous and biohazardous wastes;
(4) Bulk building material, including, but not limited to, lumber, drywall, roofing, carpet, blocks, concrete, brick and the like;
(5) Appliances (i.e., refrigerators, freezers, water heaters, air conditioners, dehumidifiers, washers, dryers, stoves, dishwashers and any other refrigerated appliances);
(6) Automobile parts and accessories, tires and batteries;
(7) Fences or fencing material;
(8) Bulk household items (i.e., furniture, household fixtures, box springs, mattresses and/or any similar items); and
(9) Yard waste, not to be mixed with trash (i.e., grass clippings, brush, tree limbs, stumps, shrubs, leaves or any other vegetation).
(10) Anything commercially generated.
(Ord. 97-1406, passed 9-15-1997; Ord. 2020-0012, passed 11-23-2020)