For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning:
BOARD. The City Board of Public Works and Safety.
COMMERCIAL BUSINESS STRUCTURES. Any structure in which there is located any commercial or retail business or activity.
CURBSIDE COLLECTION. Collection in a standard container, as defined herein, at or near the street or alley adjacent to the premises served or at any other location as the city may direct.
CUSTODIAN. An owner of record of real estate, or his or her agent or assignee, who uses a standard container.
(Ord. 678, passed 4-2-1990)
GARBAGE. Includes every rejected food waste, accumulation of animal, fruit or vegetable matter used or intended for food, or that attends the preparation, use, cooking, dealing in or storing of meat, fish, fowl, fruit or vegetable at any residence, club, restaurant, hotel, nursing home or other public or private place, also includes human or animal bodily waste and includes dead animals or fish or portions thereof.
REFUSE. By way of example but not limitation, except as herein expressly provided, REFUSE shall include items such as discarded containers, paper, ashes, cans, glass, wood, small solid objects and other litter capable of being placed in a standard container, but specifically excluding wastes such as rejected food wastes, including every waste accumulation of animal, fruit and vegetable matter used or intended for food or that attends the preparation, use, cooking, dealing in or storage of meat, fish, fowl, fruit or vegetable, and items such as discarded appliances, mattresses, box springs, tree limbs, leaves and grass clippings. REFUSE shall also include all items that might be defined as the same under the terms and conditions of a contract for refuse collection services, which may be entered into by the Board as authorized herein, which contract shall be on file in the Clerk-Treasurer's Office.
RESIDENTIAL UNIT. An occupied or unoccupied single-family residential dwelling unit specifically including, but not limited to, a mobile home, and each individual housekeeping, living or dwelling unit of a multiple-family building. (May be referred to as “Unit”.)
TRASH BAG. A bag with a draw-string or other method of closure, which is opaque, which has a volume capacity of no more than 40 gallons and which weighs no more than 30 pounds.
(Ord. 630, passed 12-22-1986; Am. Ord. 934, passed 5-2-2005; Am. Ord. 937, passed 7-5-2005)