When not inconsistent with the context, words used in the present
tense include the future; words used in the plural number include
the singular number; and words used in the singular number include
the plural number. The word "shall" is always mandatory and not merely
directory.
COMMERCIAL PLACE
Any store or building or group thereof, including shopping
centers, shopping plazas and other similar places wherein mercantile
activities and services are offered to the public and shall include
all parking areas thereat.
GARBAGE
(1)
Every waste accumulation of animal, vegetable, fruit or similar
organic matter that attends the preparation, use, dealing in or storage
of meat, fish, fowl, fruit or vegetable; metal containers, paper cartons
or other containers that have contained food materials and beverages;
smoking products, discarded paper, rubber (excluding tires), cloth,
leather, sweepings, as well as inorganic waste such as glass, porcelain
or other similar waste materials that ordinarily accumulate around
a home, business or industry. Garbage shall not, however, include
those items designated by ordinance, rule or regulations as recyclables.
(2)
Further exclusions. Prohibited materials include flammable or
explosive substances, paint, paint thinners or solvents, pesticides,
acids, caustics, or similar wastes, oil, tires, batteries, garbage
or trash generated outside the Village and medical waste.
LITTER
Garbage, refuse and rubbish, as defined herein, and all other
waste material which, if thrown or deposited as herein prohibited,
tends to create a danger to public health, safety and welfare or creates
unsightliness. Any quantity of uncontainerized paper, metal, plastic,
glass or miscellaneous solid waste which may be classified as trash,
debris, garbage or junk.
PARK
A park, reservation, playground, beach, recreation center
or any other public area in the Village, owned or used by the Village
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 sidewalks, 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.
RESPONSIBLE PERSON
In all cases, the property owner; additionally, when readily
identifiable, shall also mean the tenant whose solid waste is at issue.
RUBBISH
Nonputrescible solid wastes consisting of both combustible
and noncombustible wastes, such as yard clippings, leaves, wood, glass,
bedding, crockery and similar materials.
SOLID WASTE
All material described as garbage, yard waste and trash as
defined in this chapter.
TRASH
Discarded household furniture, bedding and mattresses, and
other bulky household materials not specifically prohibited by this
chapter, too large to place in standard refuse containers, except
those items designated by ordinance, rule or regulation as recyclables.
Trash shall not include concrete, cinder, block, stone or other masonry
materials.
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.
VILLAGE
The Village of Johnson City in the County of Broome.
YARD WASTE
Grass clippings, garden materials, leaves and brush trimmings.