For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ENFORCEMENT OFFICER. Any county employee duly authorized to write either criminal or civil citations.
GARBAGE. All putrescible wastes, including animal offal and carcasses, and recognizable industrial byproducts, but excluding sewage and human waste.
LITTER. Any quantity of uncontainerized paper, metal, plastic, glass or miscellaneous solid waste, including but not limited to refuse or garbage.
NONPUTRESCIBLE WASTE. Solid waste that is not capable of being decomposed by microorganisms with sufficient rapidity as to cause nuisances from odors and gases.
PERSON. Any individual, firm, governmental unit, organization, partnership, corporation or company.
PRIVATE PROPERTY. Includes but is not limited to the following exterior locations owned by private individuals, firms, corporations, institutions or organizations: yards, grounds, driveways, entrances, passageways, parking areas, working areas, storage areas, vacant lots and recreation facilities.
PUBLIC PROPERTY. Includes but is not limited to the following exterior locations: streets, street medians, roads, road medians, catch basins, sidewalks, alleys, public rights-of-way, public parking lots, school grounds, parks, playgrounds, other publicly owned recreation facilities, and county waterways and bodies of water.
PUTRESCIBLE WASTE. Solid waste capable of being decomposed by microorganisms with sufficient rapidity as to cause nuisances from odors and gases, such as kitchen wastes, offal and carcasses.
REFUSE. All nonputrescible waste.
SOLID WASTE. Any hazardous or nonhazardous garbage, refuse or sludge from a waste treatment plant, water supply treatment plant or air pollution control facility, domestic sewage and sludge generated by the treatment thereof in sanitary sewage collection, treatment and disposal systems and other material that is either discarded or is being accumulated, stored or treated prior to being discarded, or has served its original intended use and is generally discarded, including solid, liquid, semisolid or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, institutional, commercial and agricultural operations, and from community activities.
WASTE. Useless, unused, unwanted or discarded materials resulting from natural community activities, including solids, liquids and gases.
(Ord. 30, passed 3-8-1999; Am. Ord. 30, passed 10-3-2005)