521.04 DEFINITIONS.

   For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply and the words and phrases defined shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them:

   (a)   "Junk" means old or scrap copper, brass, rope, rags, batteries, paper, rubber, lumber, pipe, used building materials and roofing; old or scrap iron, steel or other ferrous or nonferrous materials which are not held for sale for remelting purposes by an establishment having facilities for processing such materials; an inoperable and unlicensed, dismantled, partly dismantled or wrecked vehicle, motor vehicle or parts thereof.

   (b)   "Garbage" means all putrescible wastes, except waste of the human body, and other water-carried wastes, and includes all vegetable and animal wastes resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking or consumption of foods. Any containers that have contained food or liquids for consumption by humans or other beings also shall be classified as garbage.

   (c)   "Refuse" means ashes, crockery, bottles, cans, paper and other wood pulp products, boxes, rags, grass clippings and other cut vegetation, old or discarded clothing, bedding, mattresses, furniture, appliances, rubbish, stone, sand, dirt, nails, pieces of glass, oil and all other similar nonputrescible wastes other than those included in the definition of garbage.

      ((Ord. 66-23. Passed 6-7-66.)