As used in this chapter:
(a) “Combustible waste” means all waste substances capable of incineration or burning, including paper, rags, excelsior, wood, leaves and the like, including garbage.
(b) “Noncombustible waste” means all waste substances incapable of incineration or burning, including tin cans, tinware and other metallic substances, bottles, glassware, earthenware, cut grass, dirt, sod, 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.
(c) “Garbage” means all putrescible wastes, including vegetable and animal offal and the like.
(d) “Ashes” means the residue of combustion of fuels as wood, coal, coke, charcoal and the like.
(e) “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.
(f) “Owner” means any person who, alone or jointly or severally with others, shall have legal or equitable title to any premises with or without accompanying actual possession thereof or shall have charge, care or control of any dwelling or dwelling unit, as owner or agent of the owners, or as fiduciary, including but not limited to, executor, administrator, trustee, receiver or guardian of the estate or as a mortgagee in possession regardless of how such possession was obtained. Any person who is a lessee subletting or reassigning any part or all of any dwelling or dwelling unit shall be deemed to be a co-owner with the lessor and shall have joint responsibility.
(Ord. 1960-56. Passed 6-27-60; Ord. 2010-6. Passed 3-30-10.)