The following definitions shall apply to this chapter:
GARBAGE: Refuse resulting from the handling, processing, preparation, cooking, and consumption of food or food products.
LANDSCAPE WASTE: Any vegetable or plant refuse, except garbage and refuse. The term includes trees, tree trimmings, branches, stumps, brush, weeds, leaves, grass, shrubbery, yard trimmings, and railroad tie walls that have deteriorated.
LITTER: "Garbage", "refuse", "landscape waste" and "rubbish" as herein defined which, if thrown or deposited as prohibited by this chapter, tends to create a danger to public health, safety and/or welfare.
PUBLIC PLACE: Any and all streets, sidewalks, boulevards, alleys or other public ways and any and all public squares, space, grounds and buildings.
RATPROOF CONTAINER: A garbage can or other container, regardless of size, mobile or stationary, which shall be incapable of being penetrated by and is impervious to rats.
REFUSE: Any discarded matter, or any matter which is to be reduced in volume or otherwise changed in chemical or physical properties in order to facilitate its discard, removal or disposal.
RUBBISH: Nonputrescible solid wastes consisting of both combustible and noncombustible wastes including, but not limited to, paper, wrappings, cigarettes or other tobacco products, cardboard, plastics, tin cans, glass, wood, bedding, crockery, iron, brass, tin, other metals, appliances, appliance parts, vehicle parts, rubber (including tires), plasterboard, ceramics, masonry (including bricks, cement blocks and concrete), indoor furniture placed in an outdoor environment exposed to the elements and other similar materials. (Ord. 2017-1519, 9-5-2017)