For the purpose of this chapter, the following terms, phrases, words, and their derivations, shall have the following meanings. When not inconsistent with the context, words used in the present tense include the future, words used in the plural number include the single number, and words used in the singular number include the plural number:
A. Approved Container: The container provided for residential and/or commercial use by the service provided contracted by the City.
B. Ashes and Clinkers: The residue from fire used for cooking, heating or burning of trash, after combustion has entirely ceased and the residue has entirely cooled;
C. Collector: Includes the person holding a license or contract with the city or employed and thereby authorized and designated by the city to collect, handle, transport and dispose of refuse;
D. Garbage: Includes wastes resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food, and wastes from the handling and storage of produce;
E. Inspector: The authorized employee or employees of the city or some individual designated by the council to enforce this ordinance;
F. Owner and Occupant: May be used interchangeably and shall include every person in possession, charge, or control of any commercial and industrial property or area where refuse is created or accumulated;
G. Person: Includes any person, firm, partnership, association, institute, company, corporation, or organization of any kind;
H. Refuse: Includes garbage and trash as defined in this section;
I. Shall: Is construed as being mandatory;
J. Trash: Includes wastes other than garbage, such as tin cans, bottles dust, ashes, clinkers, paper, pasteboard, cardboard or wooden boxes, lumber scraps and shavings, leaves, weeds, cuttings from trees, lawns, shrubs and gardens, or other similar waste materials produced in normal cause of everyday living. "Trash" shall not include recognized construction wastes, industrial wastes or by-products, carcasses of dead animals, appliances, furniture, automobile parts and bodies and other similar items. (Ord. 2023-635, 7-6-2023)