As used in this chapter:
(a) "Approval" or "approved" means that the object of reference meets with the approval of all duly constituted authorities having jurisdiction.
(b) "Commercial operator" means a person who owns or operates a store, restaurant, industry, institution or other similar place, public or private, charitable or noncharitable, including all responsible persons other than householders on the premises, where garbage or refuse, or both, is created or accumulated.
(c) "Garbage" means all putrescible wastes, except human excreta, sewage and other water-carried wastes, and includes all vegetable and animal offal, carcasses of dead animals and all such substances from public and private establishments and residences.
(Ord. 63-3. Passed 1-21-63.)
(d) "Householder" means the head of a family or a person maintaining separate living quarters, including owners, landlords, tenants and occupants of all premises where garbage or refuse, or both, are created. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to apply to commercial operators.
(Ord. 81-71. Passed 12-28-81.)
(e) "Permittee" means a person who, in compliance with this chapter, has applied for and received a permit for collection of garbage and refuse in the Municipality. "Permittee" includes the employees or agents of the person who holds such permit.
(Ord. 63-3. Passed 1-21-63.)
(f) "Refuse" means ashes, glass, crockery, tin cans, paper, boxes, rags and old clothing, bottles, grass cuttings, hedge cuttings, carpeting that is bundled and tied and not exceeding three square feet in cross sectional area per bundle, tree trimmings that are bundled and tied and not exceeding three square feet in cross sectional area per bundle, trees and tree limbs that are under thirty-six inches in length, whole Christmas trees, leaves and other household discards that will fit into authorized containers and all similar nonputrescible wastes. "Refuse" does not include any material, such as earth, sand, brick, stone or plaster, that may accumulate as a result of construction or remodeling operations, or the debris resulting from the trimming or removal of trees.
(Ord. 81-71. Passed 12-28-81.)