As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
GARBAGE
Includes but is not limited to waste from the preparation, cooking
and consumption of food; metal, glass, plastic and paper containers for food
and household products; and paper, cartons, rags, dead animals, putrescible
substances, sewage and similar disposable items.
RUBBISH
Dry combustible or noncombustible material, which shall include but
is not limited to ashes, magazines, books, newspapers, clothing, wooden crates
and pieces of metal, junk, discarded furniture, rugs and carpets.
TRASH
Includes but is not limited to lumber, building materials, concrete,
rocks, fill, topsoil, inoperable or wrecked automobiles, automobile parts,
plumbing fixtures, household appliances, leaves, branches, grass, tree stumps
and limbs.
No person shall throw, place, litter, deposit or dump or suffer or permit
any servant, agent, employee or person in his charge to throw, place, litter,
deposit or dump any garbage, rubbish or trash of any kind on the surface of
any street, public grounds or private property in the village for the purpose
of abandonment or otherwise.
The owner of any private property in the village shall at all times
maintain said premises free of garbage, rubbish and trash, except that this
section shall not prohibit the temporary storage of garbage and rubbish in
authorized private receptacles for collection or trash in connection with
bona fide land clearing and building activity or the making and retaining
of a compost heap and mulching area for normal gardening purposes in accordance
with customary gardening practices, provided that said compost heap or mulching
area is located at least 40 feet from any boundary line of the property upon
which it is located.