For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
REFUSE. Tree trimmings, junked buildings and roofing materials, manufacturing wastes, rocks, dirt and other waste material not defined as SOLID WASTE or TRASH.
SANITATION SUPERINTENDENT. The employee of the city or the Public Works Authority, responsible for the operation of the solid waste collection and disposal system, or his or her authorized agent.
SOLID WASTE. All putrescible and non- putrescible refuse in solid or semi-solid form, including, but not limited to, garbage, refuse, rubbish, ashes or incinerator residue, street refuse, dead animals, demolition wastes, construction wastes, solid or semi-solid commercial and industrial wastes and hazardous wastes, including explosives, pathological wastes, chemical wastes, herbicide and pesticide wastes.
SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM. The entire process of storage, collection, transportation, processing and burying solid wastes at or in a site approved by the state’s Department of Health.
TRASH. Paper, rags, containers of paper, tin cans, yard and house sweepings and all other household wastes, but not tree trimmings, building and manufacturing waste, sewage and rocks, raw dirt, rain water and other liquid refuse properly disposable through the sanitary sewers of the city.
(27A O.S. § 2-10-103) (2002 Code, § 51.03)