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: Shall include discarded household furnishings, dirt or earth debris from construction or lawn renovation, rocks, stones, automobile bodies and parts, dead animals, manure, 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: Shall include a normal person, his heirs, executors, administrators and assigns; and shall also include a firm, partnership or 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: The word "shall" means mandatory and the word "may" means permissive. (1958 Code, ch. VII, art. 2)
USER: With respect to residential real property, the word “user” in this chapter means the owner of such property. With respect to non-residential real property, the word “user” in this chapter means the owner or occupant of the property.