For the purposes of this ordinance the following terms, phrases, words and their derivations shall have the meaning given herein. The word “shall” is always mandatory and not merely directory.
(a) “Village” is the Village of North Baltimore, Ohio.
(b) “Village Administrator” is the Village Administrator of the Village of North Baltimore, Ohio.
(c) “Person” is any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company or organization of any kind, and shall include owner, tenant, lessee, occupant, or other person in charge of managing or staying on the premises.
(d) “Hauler” is any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company or organization of any kind licensed to collect rubbish, refuse, garbage and solid wastes in the Village of North Baltimore, Ohio.
(e) “Refuse” is all combustible and non-combustible, nonputrescible solid wastes (except sewage and body wastes), and except garbage. Refuse includes the residue from the burning of wood, coal, coke and other combustible materials; paper, rags, curtain, boxes, excelsior, rubber, leather, tree branches, yard waste, tin cans, metals, plastics, minced matter, glass and such material that may supply rodent harborage.
(f) “Rubbish”. The definition of “rubbish” as used herein is the same as “refuse”.
(g) “Garbage” is putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking, and consumption of food. It includes wastes from vegetable, fish, animal or fowl origin from markets, groceries, apartments, dwelling houses, and other similar locations and establishments.
(h) “Solid waste” is such unwanted residual solid or semisolid material as results from industrial, commercial, agricultural, community and individual operations, excluding earth or material from construction, mining, or demolition operations, or other waste materials of the type that would normally be included in demolition debris, nontoxic fly ash, spent nontoxic foundry sand, and slag and other substances that are not harmful or inimical to public health, solid waste includes but is not limited to, garbage, tires, combustible and noncombustible material, street dirt, and debris. Solid waste does not include any material that is an infectious waste or hazardous waste. For the purpose of this definition, “material from construction operations or demolition operations” are those items affixed to the structure being constructed or demolished such as brick, concrete, stone, glass, wallboard, framing and finishing lumber, roofing materials, plumbing, plumbing fixtures, wiring and insulations, but excludes materials whose removal has been required prior to demolition. (Ord. 40-94. Passed 1-3-95.)