For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings ascribed to them respectively.
GARBAGE. All refuse and animal and vegetable matter which has been used for food for human, all refuse and animal and vegetable matter that was intended to be so used, and includes condemned foods. This meaning shall include excess fruit from trees on residential property, but not from trees on farms or orchards.
HOUSEHOLD RUBBISH. Includes the pickup from the curb line only of residential property household goods, household refuse, tin cans, bottles, crockery, broken glass, rags, grass clippings and other similar debris, hedge cuttings and shrubbery trimmings bundled, boxed or otherwise contained, furnace pipe, incinerator refuse and ashes of all kinds and descriptions, wood not over 36 inches in length, all rubbish, trash, debris, waste, litter, scrap, packing, excelsior, straw, metal, cooking utensils, toys, porcelain, carpeting, leather, rubber, shoes, clothing, cardboard and trimmings. Excluded from HOUSEHOLD RUBBISH will be garbage, broken concrete and other refuse from repairs, alterations and new construction of buildings and sidewalks, tree limbs and trunks over 36 inches in length and debris from commercial or industrial establishments.
RUBBISH. All rags, broken glass, crockery, bottles, tin cans, waste basket debris, grass cuttings and small household refuse placed in approved containers, generally including incinerator ashes and refuse from paper burners, ashes from heating plants and coal stoves.
(Ord. O-22-83, passed 8-16-1983)