For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ASHES. Refuse resulting from the burning of wood, coal, coke, or other combustible material.
BUILDING RUBBISH. Rubbish from construction, remodeling, and repair operations on houses, commercial buildings, and other structures, including, but not limited to, excavated earth, stones, brick, plaster, lumber, concrete, and waste parts occasioned by installations and replacements.
BUSINESS BUILDING. Any structure, whether public or private, that is adapted for transaction of business, for rendering of professional services, for amusement, for the display or sale or storage of goods, wares, merchandise, articles, or equipment, including hotels, apartment houses, rooming houses, office buildings, public buildings, stores, theaters, markets, restaurants, abattoirs, warehouses, sheds, barns, and other structures on premises used for or adapted to business purposes.
GARBAGE. Animal and vegetable refuse resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking, and consumption of food, including a minimum amount of liquid necessary or incident thereto.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE. Sawdust, shavings, feathers, excelsior, cartons, boxes, metal, glass, paper, wood, textiles, chemicals, plastic, or other waste materials from processing plants, factories, or manufacturing operations.
REFUSE. Solid waste, including, but not limited to, garbage, rubbish, and ashes.
RUBBISH. Refuse (exclusive of garbage and ashes), including, but not limited to, paper; rags; cartons; boxes; wood; excelsior; rubber; leather; tree, bush, and hedge branches, cuttings, and trimmings; yard trimmings; grass; leaves; tin cans; metals; small mineral matter; glass; crockery; dirt; earth; and dust.
WASTE. Useless, unused, unwanted, or discarded materials resulting from natural community activities, including solids, liquids, and gases.
(1983 Code, § 14-11) (Ord. passed 11-20-1973)