For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
COMMERCIAL USER. All persons who own or operate stores, restaurants, industries, institutions, boarding houses, rooming houses with six or more roomers, apartment or condominium complexes, apartment buildings containing four or more units and other similar places, public or private, charitable or non-charitable, and includes all responsible persons, other than residential householders, upon whose premises refuse, rubbish, special rubbish and/or yard waste is created.
CONTAINER. For residential purposes, means a leak-proof container with tight fitting lid of metal or rigid or flexible plastic construction or fabrication no larger than 32 gallon capacity weighing no more than 45 pounds used to store refuse or bags of refuse or a CONTAINER of up to 90 gallons if furnished by a licensed contract hauler. For commercial purposes, it shall be a CONTAINER determined by mutual agreement of the commercial user and the licensed hauler as sufficient to serve the needs and demands of the commercial user.
DAY OF PICK-UP. A period of time no earlier than 6:00 p.m. the day before and no later than 11:00 p.m. the day of scheduled collection by a licensed hauler where a residential householder or commercial user places at the street curb or alley adjacent to the premises or at a public right-of-way location acceptable to the licensed hauler all rubbish, refuse, special rubbish and/or yard waste to be collected by the licensed hauler of the city. The City Manager may require the licensed hauler to provide special assistance to infirm or handicapped residents where he or she finds such assistance necessary. Containers shall be continuously stored in accordance with location and screening requirements of § 53.03(E).
RESIDENTIAL HOUSEHOLDER. An individual, family or group family (rental) unit and includes owners, tenants and occupants of all premises containing no more than three dwelling units or rooming houses with no more than five rooming units. HOUSEHOLDER shall also mean a nonprofit (low volume) agency that is located in a residential area, provided application for said designation is made to the City Manager on a form supplied by the city, and provided the City Manager finds said agency to be non-profit and low volume. Nothing in this definition shall be construed to apply to commercial users, as defined in this section.
LICENSED HAULER. Any person who has purchased a license or obtained a franchise from the city for the collection, transportation and disposition of refuse, rubbish, special rubbish, yard waste and/or recyclables.
PREMISES. Shall be interpreted to mean land or buildings, or both, or parts of either or both, occupied by a residential householder or commercial user.
RECYCLABLES. Materials otherwise considered to be refuse, rubbish or special rubbish or any other discarded material which can be recovered from the solid waste stream and converted into similar or new products.
REFUSE. All wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensation of food for human consumption; all fish, fowl, fruit, vegetable, animal or other matter which was intended to be used as food for human consumption, including condemned food, excess fruit from trees, excess vegetables from gardens and items of a similar nature; and all wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food for consumption by domestic animals, including dogs, cats and similar pets.
SPECIAL RUBBISH. Rubbish that is too large or otherwise unsuitable to fit easily into a normal packer truck, including, but not limited to, furniture, carpeting, springs, mattresses and bed frames; appliances, such as televisions, stereos, stoves, microwave ovens, refrigerators, freezers, dishwashers, air conditioners, washers, dryers, water boilers, hot water tanks or furnaces; feces; dirt, stones, asphalt, gravel, broken or whole bricks, concrete and other rubbish from repairs and alterations of existing buildings or from new construction of buildings and sidewalks; or tree limbs, tree trunks or shrubbery over 24 inches in length.
(Prior Code, § 5.02.02)