For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
(a) "Aircraft" means any contrivance now known or hereafter invented, used or designated for navigation or for flight in the air. "Aircraft" also includes helicopters and lighter-than-air dirigibles and balloons.
(b) "Authorized private receptacle" means a litter storage and collection receptacle as required and authorized in this chapter.
(c) "Commercial handbill" means any printed or written matter, any sample or device, dodger, circular, leaflet, pamphlet, paper, booklet or any other printed or otherwise reproduced original or copies of any matter of literature:
(1) Which advertises for sale any merchandise, product, commodity or thing;
(2) Which directs attention to any business, mercantile or commercial establishment or other activity for the purpose of either directly or indirectly promoting the interest thereof by sales;
(3) Which directs attention to or advertises any meeting, theatrical performance, exhibition or event of any kind for which an admission fee is charged for the purpose of private gain or profit; or
(4) Which, while containing reading matter other than advertising matter, is predominantly and essentially an advertisement arid is distributed or circulated for advertising purposes or for the private benefit and gain of any person so engaged as advertising or distributor.
(d) "Garbage" means putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food.
(e) "Litter" means any uncontainerized man-made or man-used waste which, if deposited within the City otherwise than in a litter receptacle, tends to create a danger to public health, safety and welfare, or to impair the environment of the people of the City. "Litter" may include, but is not limited to, any garbage, trash, refuse, confetti, debris, grass clippings or other lawn or garden wastes, newspaper, magazines, glass, metal, plastic or paper container or other construction material, motor vehicle parts, furniture, oil, carcass of a dead animal, or nauseous or offensive matter of any kind, or any object likely to injure any person or create a traffic hazard.
(f) "Newspaper" means any newspaper of general circulation as defined by general law, any newspaper duly entered with the Post Office Department of the United States, in accordance with federal statute or regulation and any newspaper filed and recorded with the recording officer as provided by general law and, in addition thereto, any periodical or current magazine regularly published with not less than four issues per year and sold to the public.
(g) "Noncommercial handbill" means any printed or written matter, any sample or device, dodger, circular, leaflet, pamphlet, newspaper, magazine, paper, booklet or any other printed or otherwise reproduced original or copies of any matter of literature not included in the definitions of a commercial handbill or newspaper set out in this section.
(h) "Private premises" means 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 any yard, grounds, walk, driveway, porch, steps, vestibule or mailbox belonging or appurtenant to such dwelling, house, building or other structure.
(i) "Public place" means any and all streets, sidewalks, boulevards, alleys or other public ways and all public squares, spaces, grounds and buildings, and all City parks and cemeteries.
(j) "Refuse" means all putrescible and nonputrescible solid wastes, except body wastes, including garbage, rubbish, ashes, street cleanings and solid market and industrial wastes.
(k) "Rubbish" means nonputrescible solid wastes consisting of both combustible and noncombustible wastes, such as paper, wrappings, cigarettes, cardboard, construction materials, concrete, asphalt and other paving materials, tin cans, yard clippings, wood, tree trunks, tree limbs, glass, bedding, crockery and similar materials.
(l) "Vehicle" means every device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway.
(Ord. 27-90. Passed 10-22-90.)