§ 55.01  DEFINITIONS.
   For the purpose of this chapter the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings ascribed to them respectively:
   APPROVAL or APPROVED.  The object of reference shall meet with the approval of all duly constituted authorities having jurisdiction therein.
   COMMERCIAL OPERATOR.  Persons, firms, partnerships, or corporations who own or operate stores, restaurants, industries, institutions, apartment buildings, and other similar places, public or private, charitable or non-charitable, and includes all responsible persons other than householders upon the premises upon which garbage, refuse or both is or are created or accumulated.  Nothing in this definition shall include those portions of units used for residential purposes where the building is used for a joint residential/commercial purpose.
   COMMERCIAL PERMITTEE.  Any person, firm, or corporation who, in compliance with terms of this chapter, has applied for and received a permit for collection of garbage, refuse and recyclables from  commercial  operations within the corporate limits of the municipality.  The word PERMITTEE shall extend to and include the employees or agents of the principal who holds the permit.
   DEBRIS.  Any non-putrescible waste such as earth, sand, stone, cinders, ashes, tree trimmings, plaster, or other substances which may result from construction or remodeling operations.  It shall not include waste paper, garbage, tin cans, bottles, animal offal or dead animals, or any other materials or substances which would attract rodents or insects or be conducive to spontaneous combustion.
   DUMP, PRIVATE OR PUBLIC.  Any place within the corporate limits of the municipality not controlled and supervised by the municipality and on which place or places garbage, rubbish, ashes, animal or vegetable refuse, dead animals, animal offal, and waste matter of any kind, is regularly or irregularly deposited and also any place in which fires are started after any deposit as aforesaid is made, which fires give off offensive or unwholesome odors.
   GARBAGE.  All putrescible wastes (except human excreta, sewage, and other water carried wastes) and shall include all vegetable and animal offal and carcasses of dead animals, and shall include all such substances from all public and private establishments and from all residences, excluding recyclables if a valid contract for their collection is in place.
   HOUSEHOLDER.  The head of a family or 1 maintaining separate living quarters and shall include owners, tenants, and occupants of all residential, residential; multi-family and the residential portion of joint residential/commercial buildings where garbage, refuse or recyclables is or are created.  Nothing in this definition shall be construed to apply to commercial operators as hereinafter defined.
   JOINT RESIDENTIAL/COMMERCIAL.  Buildings used for both residential and commercial purposes.
   RECYCLABLES.  All items which are deemed recyclable by the municipality and are incorporated into the recyclable residential permittee's exclusive contract.
   REFUSE.  Ashes, glass, crockery, tin cans, paper, boxes, rags, and old clothing and all similar non-putrescible wastes.  The word shall not include any material such as earth, sand, brick, stone, plaster, or other substances that may accumulate as a result of construction or remodeling operations nor shall it include the debris resulting from the trimming or removal of entire trees.
   RESIDENTIAL.  Single-family residences, duplex residential structures, twin-single residential structures, garage apartments, and apartment houses with not more than 3 residential units.
   RESIDENTIAL; MULTI-FAMILY. Apartment houses with more than 3 units.  Nothing in this definition shall be construed to apply to commercial operators as hereafter defined.
   RESIDENTIAL PERMITTEE.  Any person, firm, or corporation who, in compliance with terms of this chapter, has applied for and received an exclusive permit for collection of residential garbage, refuse and/or recyclables within the corporate limits of the municipality.  The word PERMITTEE shall extend to and include the employees or agents of the principal who holds the aforesaid permit. 
(1974 Code, § 93.01)  (Ord. 44-76, passed 11-15-1976; Am. Ord. 36-88, passed 6-20-1988; Am.  Ord. 49-91, passed 9-16-1991)