For the purpose of this chapter, 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. All material resulting from the razing, repair, excavation, or construction of buildings or structures, including, but not limited to, lumber, bricks, concrete or cinder blocks, plumbing materials, electrical wiring or equipment, heating ducts or equipment, shingles, mortar, concrete or cement, nails, screws, or any other materials used in the construction of a structure.
CITY. The City of Negaunee.
CONTAINER. A can, bag, or other receptacle made of metal, plastic, or such other substance approved by the City Manager.
CONTRACTOR. The contractor hired by the city to collect refuse.
GARBAGE. Putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking, and consumption of food.
HAZARDOUS WASTE. Dangerous materials or substances, such as poisons, acids, caustics, infected materials, explosives, and other materials not suitable for a class I landfill.
JUNK. Parts of machinery or motor vehicles, boat hulls, unused stoves, or other appliances, furniture, or other cast-off material of any kind, except building material, refuse, and yard waste.
LANDFILL. The Marquette County Landfill operated by the county’s Solid Waste Authority, as well as any transfer station operated by any of the political subdivisions of the county.
LIVING UNIT. Any single-family dwelling and each single-family unit in a multiple dwelling.
PERSON. Any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company, or organization of any kind.
REFUSE. All of the following: kitchen wastes, including cans, bottles, household food, accumulations of animal food, and vegetable matter attendant to the preparation, use, cooking, and serving of food; general household trash, including ashes, empty cartons, crates, boxes, wrapping materials, newspapers, magazines, cloth materials, empty cans, discarded types, and similar materials; and all miscellaneous debris, except building materials, junk, hazardous waste, and yard waste.
RUBBISH. Any useless waste or rejected matter, unspoilable, and not identified as garbage, consisting of both combustible and non-combustible materials such as paper, cardboard, leaves, tree trimmings, concrete, crockery, metal, building materials, furniture, appliances, bedding, and similar materials.
SOLID WASTE. Building materials, garbage, hazardous waste, junk, refuse, rubbish, and yard waste.
YARD CLIPPINGS. Shall be consistent with and as defined in the Public Act 451 of 1994, being M.C.L.A. § 324.11506, as amended, which states that YARD CLIPPINGS means leaves, grass clippings, vegetable, or other garden debris, shrubbery, or brush or tree trimmings less than four feet in length and two inches in diameter, that can be converted to compost humus. This term does not include stumps, agricultural wastes, animal waste, roots, sewage sludge, or garbage.
YARD WASTE. Grass clippings, weeds, bushes, brush clippings, and branch clippings.
(Prior Code, § 1060.01)