As used in this chapter, unless clearly indicated otherwise:
(a) "Air pollution" means the presence in the outdoor atmosphere of one or more air contaminants in such quantities and duration which are, or tend to be, injurious to human health or welfare, to animal or plant life or to property, or which would unreasonably interfere with the enjoyment of life or property throughout the Village or such portion as shall be affected thereby, and excludes all aspects of employer-employee relationships as to health and safety hazards.
(b) "Economic poisons" means those chemicals used as insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides, nematocides or defoliants.
(c) "Fuel-burning equipment" means any furnace, boiler, water heater, device, mechanism, stoker, burner, stack, oven, stove, kiln, still or other apparatus, or a group or collections of such units in the process of fuel burning for the generation of heat or power. "Fuel-burning equipment" does not include refuse-burning equipment or ovens, stoves or ranges used exclusively for domestic cooking purposes.
(d) "Incinerator" means any device, apparatus, equipment or structure used for destroying, reducing or salvaging by fire any material or substance, including, but not limited to, refuse, rubbish, garbage, debris or scrap. "Incinerator" includes facilities for cremating human or animal remains and refuse-burning equipment.
(e) "Odor" means a property of a substance which affects the sense of smell.
(f) "Open burning" means any fire wherein the products of combustion are emitted into the open air and not directed thereto through a stack or chimney.
(g) "Operator" means a person who has care, custody or control of a building or premises, or a portion thereof, with or without knowledge of the owner thereof.
(h) "Owner" means a person who, alone or jointly or severally with others, has legal or equitable title to any premises, with or without accompanying actual possession thereof, or who has charge, care or control of any premises or part thereof, including, but not limited to, a dwelling or dwelling unit, as owner or agent of the owner or as a fiduciary, including, but not limited to, an executor, administrator, trustee, receiver or guardian, or as a mortgagee in possession regardless of how such possession was obtained. Any person who is a lessee or sublessee of all or any part of any premises, including, but not limited to, a dwelling or dwelling unit, shall be deemed to be a co-owner with the lessor and shall have joint responsibility with the owner over the premises or portion thereof so leased or subleased.
(i) "Refuse" means all putrescible and nonputrescible wastes (except body wastes) and includes, but is not limited to, garbage, rubbish, yard trimmings, leaves, ashes, street cleanings, dead animals, abandoned automobiles and solid market and industrial wastes.
(j) "Ringelmann Smoke Chart" means Ringelmann's Scale for Grading the Density of Smoke, published by the United States Bureau of Mines, or any chart, recorder, indicator or device for the measurement of smoke density which is approved by the State Department of Environmental Control of the State as the equivalent of such Scale.
(k) "Rubbish" means solids not considered to be highly flammable or explosive, including, but not limited to, rags, old clothes, leather, rubber, carpets, wood, excelsior, paper, ashes, tree branches, yard trimmings, furniture, tin cans, glass, crockery, masonry and other similar materials.
(l) "Salvage operations" means any business, trade or industry engaged in whole or in part in salvaging or reclaiming any product or material, including, but not limited to, metals, chemicals, shipping containers or drums.
(m) "Smoke" means small gas-borne and air-borne particles arising from a process of combustion in sufficient number to be observable.
(n) "Trade waste" means all solid or liquid material or rubbish resulting from construction, building operations or the prosecution of any business, trade or industry. "Trade waste" includes, but is not limited to, plastic products, cartons, paint, grease, oil and other petroleum products, chemicals, cinders and other solid or liquid waste materials.
(1976 Code 16-3.)