As used in this chapter, except in those instances where the context clearly indicates otherwise:
(a) "Garbage" means all refuse and animal and vegetable matter which has been used for food for humans, and all animals and vegetable matter which was intended to be so used, and includes condemned foods. This meaning includes excess fruit from trees.
(b) "Rubbish" means all rags, crockery, bottles, tin cans, paper and other household refuse. However, the term "rubbish" does not include refuse caused by repairs, alterations and new construction or demolition of buildings and sidewalks, nor does it include water tanks, sinks, stoves or similar discarded appliances, or yard waste, plant growth or recyclables.
(c) "Refuse" means garbage, rubbish, recyclables and yard waste.
(d) "Person" means a natural person, firm, co-partnership, association or corporation.
(e) "Trash" means furniture, springs and mattresses, furnace pipe, stoves, water boilers, tires, metal cooking utensils, toys, porcelain, carpeting, household appliances, iron, steel, bulky items and the residue of alterations, demolition or new construction of buildings and sidewalks.
(f) "Family unit" means every individual or group of individuals occupying or using a dwelling of whatever kind or nature, or a part of the same, whether they are the legal owners or not.
(g) "Recyclables" means all aluminum, bi-metal products, glass, newsprint and plastics.
(h) "Yard waste" means grass clippings, leaves and brush from trees and bushes.
(Ord. 9-90. Passed 9-26-90.)