The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this chapter shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning.
AGRICULTURAL WASTE. Any refuse, except garbage and dead animals, generated on a farm or ranch by crop and livestock production practices, including such items as bags, cartons, dry bedding, structural materials and landscape wastes.
CONTAINER. Any receptacle for the storage or disposal of any waste material of any kind, including but not limited to trash cans, ash cans, plastic bags, barrels or dumpsters.
GARBAGE. Waste resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food and waste from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
LANDSCAPE WASTE. Any vegetable or plant refuse, except garbage. The term includes trees, tree trimmings, branches, stumps, brush weeds, leaves, grass, shrubbery, yard trimmings and crop residues.
LITTER.
Any discarded, used or unconsumed substance or waste.
LITTER
may include but is not limited to any garbage, trash, refuse, cigarettes, debris, rubbish, grass clippings or other lawn or garden waste; newspaper, magazines, glass, metal, plastic or paper containers, or other packaging construction material, abandoned vehicle as defined in ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-101.05, motor vehicle parts, furniture, oil, carcass of a dead animal, any nauseous or offensive matter of any kind; any object likely to injure any person or create a traffic hazard; or anything else of an unsightly or unsanitary nature, which has been discarded, abandoned or otherwise disposed of improperly, ILCS Ch. 415, Act 105, § 3.
MOTOR VEHICLE. As defined in Title VII of this code.
OPEN BURNING. The combustion of any matter in such a way that the products of the combustion are emitted to the open air.
PROPERTY HELD OUT TO THE PUBLIC FOR THE TRANSACTION OF BUSINESS. Means but is not limited to commercially operated parks, campgrounds, drive-in restaurants, automobile service stations, business parking lots, car washes, shopping centers, marinas, boat launching areas, industrial parking lots, boat moorage and fueling stations, piers, beaches and bathing areas, airports, roadside rest stops, drive-in movies and shopping malls; and includes but is not limited to any property that is publicly owned or operated for any of the foregoing purposes but excludes state highway rights-of-way and rest areas located thereon.
REFUSE. Includes both garbage and rubbish, and any waste material not classified as either garbage or rubbish.
RESTRICTED AREAS. The area with the boundaries of the city, unless the area is 1,000 feet from residential or other populated areas.
RUBBISH. Combustible trash, including but not limited to paper, cartons, boxes, barrels, wood, excelsior, tree branches, yard trimmings, wood furniture, bedding; noncombustible trash, including but not limited to metals, tin cans, metal furniture, dirt, small quantities of rock and pieces of concrete, glass, crockery, other mineral wastes; street rubbish, including but not limited to street sweeping, dirt, leaves, catch basin dirt and contents of litter receptacles. RUBBISH shall not include earth and wastes from building operations, nor shall it include solid waste resulting from industrial processes and manufacturing operations such as food processing waste, boiler house centers, lumber, scraps and shavings.
WASTE MATERIAL. Garbage, refuse, rubbish, landscape waste and construction waste, collectively or individually.
(1986 Code, § 11-1) (Ord. 1998-08, passed 4-20-1998; Ord. 2010-17, passed 12-20-2010; Ord. 2022-42, passed 10-3-2022)