As used in this chapter
(a) "Waste" means all trash, rubbish, garbage, offal and other refuse or discarded matter required to be removed from private and public places. It shall not include recognized by-products of any business or industry having commercial value and regularly handled in the ordinary course of business, unless such by-products, or the handling of them, shall become a nuisance or menace to the public health.
(b) "Combustible waste" means all waste substances capable of incineration or burning, including garbage, paper, rags, excelsior, wood, grass, leaves and the like.
(c) "Noncombustible waste" means all waste substances incapable of incineration or burning, including tin cans, tinware and other metallic substances, bottles, glassware, earthenware, ashes and similar materials, and also discarded articles the greater part of which is incapable of incineration or burning, such as asphalt roofing material, electric batteries and the like.
(d) "Garbage" means all putrescible wastes, including vegetable and animal offal, carcasses of dead animals and the like, but excluding recognized industrial byproducts.
(e) "Ashes" means the residue of combustion of such fuels as wood, coal, coke, charcoal and the like.
(f) "Commercial waste" means all wastes, combustible and noncombustible, arising out of the operations of business and industry and all other wastes not resulting from the ordinary operations of private residences or households.
(Ord. 31-61. Passed 3-6-61.)
(g) "Refuse bin" means a metal receptacle having an internal volume of one cubic yard or greater, by actual measurement, which temporarily receives and holds refuse for ultimate disposal, either by unloading into the body or loading hopper of a refuse collection vehicle or by other means.
(h) "Internal volume" means the actual volumetric capacity of the container. This may not necessarily correspond to the nominal size rating used by industry.
(i) "Tip over" means that during the application of either test force described in Section 737.08(a), the refuse bin begins to rotate forward about its forwardmost ground supports.
(Ord. 37-80. Passed 4-7-80.)