959.01 DEFINITIONS.
   (a)   "Garbage" means all putrescible waste including kitchen wastes, accumulations of animal food and vegetable matter attendant to the preparation, cooking and service of foods. It does not include sewage, body waste, animal offal and carcasses of dead animals.
   (b)   "Rubbish" means ashes, bottles, broken glass, crockery, tin cans, printed matter, paper, cartons and items of clothing.
   (c)   "Junk" means scrap metal, automobile or truck parts, tires, manufacturing or trade wastes, appliances such as refrigerators, washers, freezers, hot water heaters, discarded furniture and similar items.
   (d)   "Construction materials" means earth, sand, brick, stone, plaster, concrete, and similar items which may accumulate as the result of construction, remodeling or razing activities.
   (e)   "Leaves, tree and bush trimmings" include tree limbs, waste wood and lumber, and material arising as a result of rakings.
   (f)   "Village" means the Village of New London, Ohio.
 
   (g)   "Administrator" means the Administrator of the Village of New London, Ohio.
 
   (h)   "Householder" means the head of a family or one maintaining his or her separate living room or quarters on premises, upon which garbage or rubbish, or both, is accumulated.
 
   (i)   "Premises" means land or buildings or both or parts of either or both, occupied by one householder or commercial establishment.
 
   (j)   "Commercial establishment" means and includes all other premises and institutions, private or public, charitable or noncharitable, upon which garbage or rubbish, or both, is created.
 
   (k)   "Collector" means the Village of New London, Ohio, and each and all of its duly authorized agents and/or employees connected with the collection and disposal of garbage or rubbish or both.
 
   (l)   "Collecting agent" means each and all employees of the Village of New London, Ohio, charged with the duty of collecting or receiving fees, or both, for collecting and disposing of garbage or rubbish by said Village.
 
   (m)   "Person" means every natural person or association of persons, a partnership or corporation.
   Words in the singular shall include the plural.
(Ord. 87-5. Passed 4-21-87.)