For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
COLLECTOR. The agents and/or employees of the Sanitation Department of the city designated by the city to collect, handle, transport, and dispose of refuse and wastes.
GARBAGE.
(1) All putrescible waste, except sewage and body waste, including waste accumulation of animal food or vegetable matter, and including waste that attends the preparation, use, cooking, dealing in, or storing of meat, fish, fowl, fruit, and vegetables, and shall include all of such wastes or accumulations of vegetable matter of residences, restaurants, cafes, hotels, and places where food is prepared for human consumption.
(2) The term GARBAGE shall not include recognized industrial products.
INSPECTOR. The authorized employee of the city or some individual designated by the City Council as having the duty of the enforcement of this chapter.
OWNER AND OCCUPANT. Wherever herein used may be used interchangeably, and shall mean every person in possession, in charge, or in control of any dwelling, flat, rooming house, or any eating place, shop, place of business, or manufacturing or business establishment where garbage or other refuse is created or accumulated.
PERSON. Every individual, business, organization, and business entity.
REFUSE. Solid wastes, including garbage and rubbish.
RUBBISH.
(1) Refuse other than garbage (tin cans, bottles, ashes, paper, pasteboard, cardboard, or wooden boxes, brush, leaves, weeds, and cuttings from trees, lawns, shrubs, and gardens or other waste materials produced in the normal course of doing business or everyday living).
(2) The term RUBBISH shall not include recognized industrial byproducts.
WASTE. Unwanted solid, liquid, or gaseous materials.
(Prior Code, § 4-2-1) (Ord. 426, passed 2-11-1975)