For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ASSESSMENT. The fee imposed for recovery of garbage collection costs incurred for benefitting a particular property of any person which is levied pursuant to this chapter.
BRUSH. Tree limbs and shrubbery clippings exceeding three feet in length.
BULK RUBBISH. Wooden and cardboard boxes, crates, appliances, large items of household furniture, and other refuse items which by size and shape are not readily containerable.
COLLECTION EMPLOYEE. Any individual employed by the city for the purpose of effectuating the provisions of this chapter.
CONSTRUCTION WASTE. Material from construction, remodeling, and construction site preparation, including, but not limited to, rocks, trees, debris, dirt, brick, fill, plaster, and all types of scrap building materials.
CONTAINERABLE RUBBISH. Putrescible and nonputrescible solid wastes, including, but not limited to, wrapped garbage, wrapped small dead animals, wrapped or boxed ashes, wastepaper, excelsior, rags, bottles, crockery, bedding, clothing, carpets, leather, tin cans, metal scraps, small mechanical parts, shavings, floor sweepings, grass and weed clippings, twigs, tree limbs not exceeding three feet in length, and other similar waste or debris.
DAYS. When used as a number of days, shall mean calendar days, unless otherwise specified.
FILTH. Manure, excrement, or similar substance.
GARBAGE. All putrescible and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking, and consumption of food.
LIEN. A charge which attaches, in favor of the city, to real property benefitted by the collection of any brush, trash, bulk rubbish, containerable rubbish, filth, construction waste, or refuse; the lien also attaches to any other real or personal property of a person or any refuse generator, owning or in charge of benefitted property, to secure the payment of unpaid monthly collection costs as hereinafter described.
LITTER. Any rubbish, trash, weeds, filth, and debris which shall constitute a hazard to public health and safety and shall include all putrescible and nonputrescible solid wastes, including garbage, trash, ashes, street cleanings, dead animals, abandoned automobiles, and solid market and industrial waste; and deposit, accumulation, pile, or heap of brush, grass, debris, weeds, cans, cloth, paper, wood, rubbish or other unsightly or unsanitary matter of any kind whatsoever, and any growth of weeds, brush, grass, or other vegetable growth to a height of over six inches.
OPEN AREA. Any park, street, gutter, sidewalk, sewer, boulevard, alley, greenbelt, square, vacant lot, space, ground, or other area where refuse material may accumulate.
PERSON. Any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, institution, or other entity acting as principal, agent, officer, servant, or employee for himself, herself, or itself, or for any other individual, firm, partnership, corporation, institution, or other entity, who owns, leases, rents, or occupies any real property within the city limits.
PRIVATE PREMISES. Any dwelling, house, building, or other structure designed or used either wholly or in part for private residential purposes, whether inhabited or temporarily or continuously uninhabited or vacant, and shall include any yard, grounds, walk, driveway, porch, steps, or vestibules belonging or appurtenant to the dwelling, house, building, or other structures.
PROHIBITED SUBSTANCE. Any liquid, solid, or gas with an ignition temperature or flash point of less than 200°F, including, but not limited to, gasoline, benzine, naphtha, or other flammable or explosive; any material having a pH lower than five and one-half or higher than nine or having any other corrosive property that could be injurious or hazardous to city collection employees or which could cause damage to equipment; any noxious or malodorous substance offensive to the senses and depriving a neighborhood or a considerable number of persons of the comfortable enjoyment of life or property; or any hypodermic needle or syringe.
PUBLIC PLACE. Any and all streets, sidewalks, boulevards, alleys, or other public ways, and any and all public parks, squares, spaces, grounds, and buildings.
PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR. The head of the Public Works Department, which includes the sanitation operation, or his or her duly authorized agent.
REFUSE. All putrescible and nonputrescible solid wastes (except body wastes), including garbage, rubbish, ashes, trash, litter, street cleanings, dead animals; abandoned, wrecked, or junked vehicles or parts thereof; and brush and containerable rubbish, filth, construction waste, and prohibited substances when these terms are not specifically noted in this chapter.
REFUSE GENERATOR, COMMERCIAL. Any person in charge of owning, leasing, renting, or occupying any business, industrial or commercial, building other than a private residence, including, but not limited to, a store, office, factory, hotel, tourist court, motel, motor hotel, trailer court, apartment hotel, or residential building.
REFUSE GENERATOR, RESIDENTIAL. Any person in charge of, owning, leasing, renting, or occupying any building or buildings used solely for a family or private residential domicile, including, but not limited to, single- and multiple-family dwelling units, apartments, townhouses, cooperatives, condominiums, and board and rooming houses.
TRASH. Rubbish, waste, debris, or refuse.