As used in this chapter:
BULKY WASTE: Includes, but is not limited to: household appliances, furniture, carpet, mattresses, box springs, water tanks, containerized do it yourself remodeling wastes, fencing and similar noncontracted items, bagged grass and brush produced as refuse from single-family dwellings receiving collection services from a contractor. All appliances containing chlorofluorocarbons (air conditioners, refrigerators, and freezers) must be certified "freon free" or compressors must be removed before collection may be completed. Appliances containing freon can be picked up by special arrangement. Items excluded under the definition of bulky waste include hospital and medical waste, poisons, acids and caustics, explosives, dirt and rocks, sewage and liquid waste, nuclear materials, gasoline, kerosene, propane tanks, degreasers, lubricants, tires and rims, antifreeze, paint, and commercial construction debris.
GARBAGE: All putrescible wastes, including vegetables, animal and poultry offal, carcasses of small animals and dead fowl, and includes all such substances accumulated by all public and private establishments and by all residences. It shall not be construed to mean sewage and body wastes and recognized industrial byproducts or waste.
PERSON: Includes any individual, firm or corporation.
RUBBISH: Solid and ordinary waste, other than garbage, accumulated by all public and private establishments and by all residences, including glass and broken ware, discarded clothing, trash, tin cans, bottles, papers, and tree limbs, grass and weed cuttings properly contained or bundled as described in this chapter.
RUBBLE: Includes trees, dirt, rocks, ashes, debris resulting from construction, reconstruction or repair of buildings, and other earthen, wooden or metal materials, longer, larger and/or heavier than rubbish. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to preclude a person from removing "rubbish" and "rubble", as defined herein, from his premises at the expense of such person, provided, it is done in a neat and sanitary manner.
SERVICE UNITS: An average amount of garbage or rubbish not to exceed the following:
The contents of four (4) garbage containers, each not greater than forty (40) gallons and eight (8) 33-gallon bags. (Ord. 1072 §1, 2009: Ord. 989 §1, 2003: Ord. 917 §1, 2000: Ord. 903-A §1, 2000: Ord. 415 §1, 1976: prior code §10-3)