553.01 DEFINITIONS.
   Whenever the following words are used in this chapter, they shall have the following meanings, unless otherwise provided:
   (a)   “Refuse” refers to only such matter as is either in fact noxious or has been refused and abandoned by its owner as worthless.
   (b)   “Rubbish” means and includes wires, chips, shavings, bottles, broken glass, crockery, tin, cast or wooden ware, boxes, rags, dead weeds, paper circulars, handbills, boots, shoes, ashes or any waste material other than garbage or offal.
   (c)   “Used building materials” means and includes any materials, such as wood, stone, brick or cement block, or any composition thereof, used or useful in the erection of any building or structure and which have been used previously for such erection or construction by the same persons or by any other person.
   (d)   “Motor vehicle in an inoperative condition” means and includes any style or type of motor-driven vehicle used or useful for the conveyance of persons or property which is unable to move under its own power due to defective or missing parts and which has remained in such condition for a period of not less than ten consecutive days.
   (e)   “Motor vehicle unfit for further use” means and includes any style or type of motor-driven vehicle used for the conveyance of persons or property which is in a dangerous condition, has defective or missing parts or is in such a condition generally as to be unfit for further use as a conveyance.
   (f)   “Automobile parts” means and includes any portion or parts of any motor- driven vehicle as detached from the vehicle as a whole.
   (g)   “Scrap metal” means and includes pieces of or parts of steel, iron, tin, zinc, copper, aluminum, or any alloy thereof, whether covered with porcelain or any other material, whether intact or in parts, and which has served its usefulness in its original form and can no longer be used or useful for its originally intended purpose.
(Ord. 1967-30. Passed 6-14-67.)