For the purposes of this article, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:
A room or suite of rooms with cooking and washing facilities arranged or designed for or occupied by a family, including but not limited to a subordinate dwelling such as a garage apartment or a separate quarters.
A building or buildings arranged or designed for or occupied by three (3) or more families.
Stoves, refrigerators, hot water heater, washer and dryer machines, furniture and other similar household waste materials.
A business customer within the corporate limits of the city and designated by the contractor as a commercial customer. These customers will be serviced with carts or containers supplied by contractor. A commercial customer must be an electric power and/or water customer of the city.
The person, firm or entity that the city has engaged to collect and dispose of its municipal solid waste.
One (1) or more individuals living as a single housekeeping unit.
All waste animal or vegetable matter such as, but not limited to, waste material and refuse from kitchens, residences, grocery stores, butcher shops, restaurants, cafes, hotels, motels, and all other putrescible substances.
Any chemical compound, mixture, substance or article which is designated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency, or appropriate agency of the state, to be “hazardous” as that term is defined or may hereafter be defined by or pursuant to federal or state law, rule or regulation.
A building designed for occupancy as a temporary abiding place of individuals who are lodged with or without meals.
The area containing two (2) or more mobile homes where families are residing.
The garbage, refuse, rubbish, solid waste, trash or yard waste generated or accumulated within the city and which the contractor is obligated to collect and dispose.
Business houses, boarding houses, offices, theaters, hotels, restaurants, cafes, apartments, apartment buildings, schools, residences, vacant lots, and all other places within the city limits where garbage, refuse, or trash accumulates in ordinary quantities.
Those materials specified by the city for collection in accordance with recycling regulations. Such material may include, but not be limited to, aluminum products, clean glass containers, bi-metal containers, newspapers, magazines and periodicals, plastic containers and yard wastes. What constitutes recyclable material shall change depending upon what the city is able to dispose of through municipal recycling efforts.
The separation, collection, processing, recovery, and sale or reuse of metals, glass, paper, plastics and other materials which would otherwise be disposed of as solid waste.
Waste, rubbish, or any material of any kind that has been discarded, rejected, cast aside or thrown away as worthless, including, but not limited to, tin cans, bottles, glass, scraps of iron, tin, wire, or other metal and glass.
Any house, mobile home, apartment or other dwelling unit, occupied by persons for living purposes. Each apartment of an apartment house shall be deemed a separate dwelling.
A single-family dwelling within the corporate limits of the city. A residential customer shall be deemed occupied, when either electric power and/or water services are being supplied thereto. A residential customer must be an electric and/or water customer of the city.
A customer requiring a specific type of open-top container generally used for construction or cleanup projects. These containers are places on site, loaded by the customer, and hauled off by the contractor with a specialized roll-off truck.
A building or portion thereof other than a hotel where five (5) or more persons are lodged for compensation.
All waste wood, wood products, tree trimmings, grass cuttings, dead plants, weeds, leaves, dead trees or branches thereof, chips, shavings, sawdust, printed matter, used and discarded shoes and boots, combustible waste pulp and other products, such as those used for packaging, or wrapping crockery and glass, ashes, cinders, floor sweeping, glass, mineral or metallic substances, and any and all other waste materials not included in the definition of garbage or refuse.
All putrescible and nonputrescible discarded or unwanted solid materials resulting from or incidental to municipal, community, trade, business, manufacturing, recreational, or agricultural activities, including garbage, refuse, and trash.
All manure and other waste matter normally accumulated in or about a stable, or any animal, livestock or poultry enclosure, and resulting from the keeping of animals, poultry or livestock.
Rubbish, paper of all kinds, rags, old clothing, feathers, ashes, paper containers, old rubber, pieces of wood, boxes, barrels, crates, yard cleanings, yard clippings, leaves, and tree trimmings.
A detached building having separated accommodations for and occupied as a dwelling by two (2) families.
Those materials generally related to yard maintenance. Such materials may include, but not be limited to, grass clippings, bush/shrub clippings, and tree trimmings that can be readily bagged. In addition this definition may include branches that can be chipped by the city chipper and large pieces of tree trunks or branches that will not go through the chipper.
(2004 Code, sec. 6.102)