When used in this chapter, the following words and terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section:
GARBAGE: Includes all animal and vegetable refuse from kitchens and other places where food is prepared, all offal from fish, meat and vegetable markets, and all organic substances unfit for food and subject to decay.
ITEMS EXCLUDED FROM CITY COLLECTION: Discarded household furnishings, dirt or earth debris from construction or lawn renovation, rocks, stones, automobile bodies and parts, dead animals, building materials such as mortar, plaster, scrap lumber and wood shavings must be collected and disposed of by the building contractor, owner or occupant of premises.
PERSON: Includes a normal person, his heirs, executors, administrators and assigns; and shall also include a firm, partnership, corporation, its or their successors or assigns. Singular includes plural. Male includes female.
RUBBISH: Includes all waste and refuse such as newspapers, magazines, wrapping and other paper products, packing cases and materials such as straw, shavings, excelsior, sawdust, and discarded clothing, metals, tin cans, bottles, broken glass, ashes, lawn and tree trimmings and cuttings and weeds and leaves from residential property.
SHALL AND MAY: Shall means mandatory; may means permissive. (1990 Code)