For the purpose of this chapter, the following
words and phrases shall have the meanings assigned to them in this
section. Words and phrases not herein otherwise defined shall have
the meanings accepted by common use.
DEBRIS
Broken concrete, bricks, blocks or other mineral matter,
bottles, porcelain and other glass or crockery; boxes; lumber (new
and used), posts, sticks or other wood; paper, rags, cardboard excelsior,
rubber, plastic wire, tin and metal items; discarded household goods
or appliances, junk lawn mowers, tar paper, residues from burning
or any similar materials which constitute health, fire or safety hazards
or a serious blighting influence upon the neighborhood or the Village
of Superior in general.
JUNK
Any old or scrap metal, metal alloy, synthetic or organic
material or waste, or any junked, ruined, dismantled or wrecked motor
vehicle or machinery, or any part thereof, whether salvageable or
not. An unlicensed motor vehicle shall be construed to be a junked
motor vehicle.
REFUSE
Debris as heretofore defined.
RUBBISH
Combustible and noncombustible waste materials, except garbage,
and the term shall include the residue from the burning of wood, coal,
coke and other combustible materials, paper, rags, boxes, wood, excelsior,
rubber, leather, tin cans, metals, mineral matter, glass, crockery
and dust, and other similar materials.
The Building Inspector is authorized and directed
by the Board to enforce the provisions of this chapter and is hereby
authorized and directed to make inspections in response to a complaint
that an alleged violation of this chapter exists or when he/she has
good reason to believe that a violation is being committed. Members
of the Village Board may also enforce this chapter.
It is the purpose of the Village of Superior
in adopting this chapter, in the exercise of its police powers, to
regulate and provide for the removal and disposal of blighting influences,
debris, junk, noncombustible material, rubbish, and refuse generated
in the Village of Superior in order that the health, safety and welfare
of all persons in the Village of Superior may be protected.