For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
CITY. The City of Whitewood, South Dakota.
COLLECTOR. The same as COLLECTOR OF REFUSE.
COLLECTOR OF REFUSE. A person holding a license from the city to collect garbage and rubbish, as provided in this chapter.
COMMERCIAL UNIT.
(1) Any type of business unit, which has a permanent location. Each separate office and each separate business is one separate COMMERCIAL UNIT regardless of how many of the units might be in the same building.
(2) Each motel, hotel, tourist court, church, school building, and hospital shall be deemed to be a COMMERCIAL UNIT. Dormitories and rooming houses, at which the roomers also obtain their meals, shall be deemed to be a COMMERCIAL UNIT.
DUMPSTER. A container used to dispose of a large mass of rubbish or garbage that can be attached to the collector’s truck to facilitate the emptying of the DUMPSTER.
FAMILY DOMESTIC UNIT.
(1) Any single independent family unit irrespective of the number of persons constituting such family, but shall not include a situation where one or more independent families may be living together in any single residence or abode, but in such situation each of such independent families shall be deemed and regarded as a separate and distinct FAMILY DOMESTIC UNIT; each independent family unit living in multiple dwelling residences, apartment houses, or any type of residence including trailer houses, shall each be deemed a FAMILY DOMESTIC UNIT for the purpose of this chapter.
(2) Rooming houses, at which the roomers do not obtain their meals, shall be deemed to be one FAMILY DOMESTIC UNIT.
GARBAGE. Includes kitchen refuse, an accumulation of animal and vegetable matter which attends the preparation, cooking, and eating of food, and including cans, bottles, and ashes.
MULTIPLE DWELLINGS. A structure designed or used for residential occupancy by two or more families living independently of each other.
PERSON. Every person, firm, partnership, association institution, and corporation.
RUBBISH. Includes paper, boxes, and cartons, all household wastes other than garbage, all wastes from commercial units, clipped grass, tree leaves, and other wastes from gardens and lawns, trimmings of trees, and all nonperishable wastes, but shall not include building wastes and dead trees, or limbs or branches therefrom.
(Prior Code, § 50.01)