For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms, phrases, words and their derivations shall have the meaning given herein. When not inconsistent with the context, words used in the present tense include the future, words used in the plural number include the singular number and words used in the singular number include the plural number. "Shall" is always mandatory and not merely directory.
(a) "Garbage" means any putrescible animal and vegetable material resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food.
(b) "Refuse" means all putrescible and nonputrescible solid material (except body wastes), including, but not limited to, garbage, rubbish, ashes, street cleanings, dead animals, abandoned motor vehicles, used motor vehicle parts, tires, junk as defined in Section 733.01(b), building materials, solid market and industrial wastes, used chemical and oil waste, and any other similar substance, manmade or otherwise, which no longer serves the functional use for which it was intended.
(c) "Rubbish" means all nonputrescible solid material consisting of both combustible and noncombustible matter, including but not limited to, paper, wrappings, cigarettes, cardboard, tin and aluminum cans, yard clippings, leaves, wood, glass, concrete, dirt, plaster, plasterboard, roofing material, nails, bedding, crockery and similar materials.
(d) "Waste" means all garbage, refuse and rubbish, as defined in this chapter, and any other similar substance, man-made or otherwise, which no longer serves the functional use for which it was intended at the location it is dumped or which may become noxious, offensive, injurious or dangerous to the public health, comfort or safety.
(e) "Dumping" means the discarding, dropping, placing, throwing, depositing or dispensing of waste.
(Ord. 576-89. Passed 6-13-89.)