For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
AIR CURTAIN DESTRUCTOR. A unit consisting of a combustion chamber pit and air blower designed to establish a curtain of high velocity air above the fire burning in the pit so that the products of combustion must be forced up through the curtain before they reach the outside air.
DEPARTMENT OF FIRE PREVENTION. In the International Fire Code, it refers to the Spring Hill Fire Department Fire Prevention Division.
FIRE CODE OFFICIAL. In the International Fire Code adopted by the provisions of this Code, it shall be held to mean the Fire Chief, or duly authorized representative being Fire Marshal or Fire Inspector.
JURISDICTION. In the International Fire Code adopted by the provisions of this Code, it shall be held to mean the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee.
OPEN BURNING. The burning of any matter under such conditions that products of combustion are emitted directly into the open atmosphere without passing directly through a stack.
PERSON. Any individual, partnership, firm, company, corporation, association, joint stock company, trust, estate, political subdivision, an agency, authority, commission, or department of the United States, or of the State of Tennessee; or any other legal entity, or their legal representative, agent, or assigns.
RUBBISH. Any material thrown away as worthless trash.
WOOD WASTE. Any product which has not lost its basic character as wood, such as bark, sawdust, limbs, tree trunks, chips and chemically untreated lumber whose "disposition" by open burning is to solely get rid of or destroy.
(Ord. 23-02, passed 3-6-2023; Ord. 23-18, passed 11-20-2023)