§ 82-1. Definitions.

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

Dumpster means a container placed and maintained by the city for use by specifically permitted persons or businesses for the disposal of garbage, rubbish and trash.

Garbage means any refuse accumulation of animal, fruit or other material that attends the preparation, use, cooking, and dealing in or storage of meats, fish, fowl, fruit or vegetables, or any other matter of any nature whatsoever which is subject to decay, putrefaction, or the generation of noxious or offensive gases or odors or which during or after decay may serve as breeding or feeding material for flies or other germ-carrying insects or rodents; and also papers, bags, sacks, cartons, containers, cans, boxes, bottles, and such other small refuse ordinarily accumulated about residential premises and business establishments.

Garbage cans and plastic garbage bags. The term "garbage cans" shall be defined to mean reusable metal or plastic receptacles, as distinguished from plastic garbage bags, which are disposable.

Rubbish and trash mean all other waste materials (except body waste) not defined in this section as garbage, including but not limited to wood, stone, brick, cement, concrete, construction blocks, roofing and other refuse building materials, tree stumps, tree leaves, tree limbs, tree trunks, grass cuttings, etc.

(Code 1986, § 13-1)

Cross reference

Definitions generally, § 1-2.