As used in this chapter, the following certain words
and phrases shall have the meanings indicated:
COMMERCIAL PLACES
Any store or building, or group thereof, including shopping
centers, shopping plazas and other similar places and including professional,
institutional, mercantile or industrial premises wherein mercantile
activities and services are offered to the public, and shall include
all parking areas thereof.
GARBAGE
Putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the
handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food.
LITTER
Garbage, refuse and rubbish, as defined herein, and all other
paper, material or matter of any kind which, if thrown or deposited
as herein prohibited, tends to create a danger to public health, safety
and welfare or creates unsightliness.
PARK
A park, reservation, playground, recreation center or any
other public area in the town, owned or used by the town and devoted
to active or passive recreation.
PERSON
Any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation,
company or organization of any kind.
PRIVATE PREMISES
Any house, building or other structure designed or used,
either wholly or in part, for private residential purposes, whether
inhabited or temporarily or continuously uninhabited or vacant, and
shall include any yard, grounds, walk, driveway, porch, steps, vestibule
or mailbox belonging or appurtenant to such dwelling, house, building
or other structure.
PUBLIC PLACE
Any and all streets, sidewalks, boulevards, alleys or other
public ways and any and all public parks, squares, spaces, grounds
and buildings.
REFUSE
All putrescible and nonputrescible solid wastes (except body
wastes), including garbage, rubbish, ashes, street cleanings, dead
animals, abandoned automobiles and solid market and industrial wastes.
RUBBISH
Nonputrescible solid wastes consisting of both combustible
and noncombustible wastes, such as yard clippings, leaves, wood, glass,
bedding, crockery and similar materials.
TOWN
The unincorporated areas in the Town of New Castle.
VEHICLE
Every device in, upon or by which any person or property
is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, including devices
used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.