For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
GARBAGE. All putrescible wastes, including animal offal and carcasses of dead animals, but excluding human excreta, sewage, and other water-carried wastes.
LITTER. Garbage, refuse, and rubbish, as defined herein, and all other waste material which, if thrown, deposited, maintained, or stored, as herein prohibited, tends to create a danger to public health, safety, and welfare.
PARK. A park, reservation, playground, beach, recreation center, or any other public area in the city owned, or used, by the city, and devoted to active, or passive, recreation.
PUBLIC PLACE. Any and all streets or other public ways, and any and all public parks, ravines, spaces, grounds, and buildings.
REFUSE. All putrescible and non-putrescible solid wastes (except body wastes), including garbage; rubbish; ashes; street cleanings; dead animals; abandoned, unlicensed, or inoperative vehicles; and solid commercial and industrial wastes.
RUBBISH. Non-putrescible solid wastes consisting of both combustible and non-combustible wastes, such as paper, wrappings, cigarettes, cardboard, tin cans, yard clippings, leaves, wood, glass, bedding, crockery, scrap metal, scrap lumber, used vehicle parts, and similar materials.
VEHICLE. Every device in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be transported, or drawn upon on a highway, including, but not limited to, devices such as automobiles, trucks, bicycles, motorcycles, snowmobiles, trailers of any kind, and similar forms of conveyance.
(Ord. 020, fourth series, passed 5-21-2024)