For the purpose of this article, the following definitions shall
apply, unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different
meaning:
Alley.
Any public way, generally of less width than a street, used
for public utility purposes and right-of-way and as an alternate secondary
or emergency route for vehicle and pedestrian traffic, generally situated
at the rear or alongside a tier of lots.
Brush.
Nonputrescible solid waste consisting of tree, shrub, and
hedge clippings, providing that trunks and limbs shall not exceed
three inches in diameter and shall be cut in lengths not to exceed
five feet.
Container.
A receptacle for the deposit of solid waste.
Duplex.
A structure intended for use and occupancy as a two-family
dwelling unit.
Food establishment.
A cafe, restaurant, or other similar establishment serving
food or food products, including quick service drive-ins where food
is prepared and served.
Garbage.
Solid waste consisting of putrescible animal and vegetable
waste materials resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking,
and consumption of food, including waste materials from markets, storage
facilities, and handling and sale of produce and other food products.
Illegally dumped solid waste.
Any solid waste placed on properties with or without the
consent of the owner or person in control where such waste constitutes
a nuisance detrimental to the public health and welfare.
Institution or institutional.
Any church, church building, or structure housing any charitable,
philanthropic, or eleemosynary undertaking, or any school.
Manager.
The person in charge of real estate used for apartment, institutional,
or commercial purposes.
Manual collection.
The service rendered in collecting municipal solid waste
from containers, which containers can be handled in part by individuals
picking up the containers as distinguished from picking up containers
by mechanical means and which containers are too large for handling
by manual means.
Municipal solid waste.
Solid waste resulting from or incidental to municipal, community,
trade, business and recreational activities, including garbage, rubbish
(or trash), ashes, street cleanings, dead animals, and all other solid
waste other than industrial solid waste.
Occupant.
The person residing in a dwelling unit, specifically the
head of such household.
Owner.
The record title holder of real property.
Parkway.
The area ordinarily intervening between the curbline of a
street and the inside property line.
Public utility easement.
A right-of-way used or dedicated to be used by any public
utility, including, but not limited to, services such as electricity,
telephone, gas, solid waste collection, water, sewer and drainage.
Public way.
Any street, alley, easement or other right-of-way.
Residence.
A structure intended for use and occupancy as a one-family
dwelling unit.
Rubbish or trash.
Nonputrescible solid waste, consisting of both combustible
and noncombustible waste materials; combustible rubbish (or trash)
includes paper, rags, cartons, wood, excelsior, furniture, rubber,
plastics, yard trimmings, leaves, and similar materials; noncombustible
rubbish (or trash) includes glass, crockery, tin cans, aluminum cans,
metal furniture and like materials which will not burn at ordinary
incinerator temperatures 1,600° Fahrenheit to 1,800° Fahrenheit.
Sanitary landfill.
A method of disposing of municipal solid waste on land without
creating a nuisance or hazard to public health or safety, by utilizing
the principles of engineering to confine the solid waste to the smallest
practical area, to reduce it to the smallest practical volume and
to cover it with a layer of earth at appropriate periodic intervals.
Street.
Any public thoroughfare for the passage of vehicle and pedestrian
traffic.
(1997 Code, sec. 51.01)
The provisions of this article shall apply to all territory
within the city.
(1997 Code, sec. 51.02)
The bodies of dead animals shall not be placed in solid waste
containers or in any street, alley, easement, or public way. The collection
and removal of dead animal bodies shall be a service of the city and
shall be furnished upon request or notification by any interested
person.
(1997 Code, sec. 51.19)