As used in this chapter:
(a) "Agricultural waste" means any waste material generated by crop, horticultural or livestock production practices, and includes such items as woody debris and plant matter from stream flooding, bags, cartons, structural materials, and landscape wastes that are generated in agricultural activities, but does not include land clearing waste, buildings (including dismantled/fallen barns or other outbuildings), garbage, dead animals, animal waste, motor vehicles and parts thereof, nor economic poisons and containers therefor, unless the manufacturer has identified open burning as a safe disposal procedure.
(b) "Building materials" means those materials resulting from the alteration, construction, destruction, rehabilitation, or repair of any manmade physical structure including, without limitation, houses, buildings, industrial or commercial facilities, or roadways.
(c) "Economic poisons" include but are not restricted to pesticides such as insecticides, fungicides, rodenticides, miticides, nematocides and fumigants; herbicides, seed disinfectants and defoliants.
(d) "Garbage" means any matter resulting from the handling, processing, preparation, cooking and consumption of food or food products.
(e) "Landscape waste" means any plant waste material, except garbage, including trees, tree trimmings, branches, stumps, brush, weeds, leaves, grass, shrubbery, yard trimmings and crop residues.
(f) “Land clearing waste" means plant waste material which is removed from land, including plant waste material removed from stream banks during projects involving more than one property owner, for the purpose of rendering the land useful for residential, commercial or industrial development. Land clearing waste also includes the plant waste material generated during the clearing of land for new agricultural development.
(g) "Open burning" means the burning of materials wherein products of combustion are emitted directly into the ambient air, without passing through a stack or chimney from an enclosed chamber.
(h) "Residential waste" means any waste material, including landscape wastes, generated on the property of a one-, two-, three-, or multi-family residence as a result of residential activities, but not including garbage, rubber, grease, asphalt, liquid petroleum products, or plastics.
(i) "Recreational fire" means an outdoor fire where the fuel being burned is not contained in an incinerator, outdoor fireplace, portable outdoor fireplace, barbecue grill or barbecue pit and has a total fuel area of three (3) feet or less in diameter and two (2) feet or less in height for pleasure, religious, ceremonial, cooking, warmth or similar purposes.
(j) "Bonfire" means a recreational fire exceeding the size limitations for recreational fires specified in this section.
(k) "Outdoor fireplace" means an outdoor, solid-fuel-burning fireplace, pit or box that may be constructed of steel, concrete, brick, other masonry, clay or other noncombustible material, including commercially-manufactured portable outdoor fireplaces commonly marketed as "fire pits."
(l) "Outdoor cooking" means the preparation of food in barbecue grills, smokers and outdoor ranges, commercially manufactured and sold for the purpose of outdoor cooking, whether fixed or portable, and regardless of the type of fuel used.
(Ord. 2022-147. Passed 10-10-22.)