The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
means cuttings or trimmings from trees, shrubs, or similar materials which are not susceptible to placement in disposable containers.
refers to a business enterprise or other nonresidential activity.
means a person hauling and disposing brush, debris, garbage, and trash at the Jefferson-Marion County Solid Waste Site for a fee or remuneration paid by another person; provided such brush, debris, garbage, and trash is deposited in a vehicle and/or trailer that does not exceed one ton in weight.
means dirt, concrete, rocks, bricks, or other waste building materials.
means the solids after the liquid or slop has been drained off.
means items including, but not limited to, used and/or discarded food waste or refuse.
means residential use or commercial use as defined in this section; however, such brush, debris, garbage, or trash shall be deposited at the Jefferson-Marion County Solid Waste Site in a vehicle and/or trailer that is one ton or greater in weight.
means dry kitchen refuse, all meat, vegetable and fruit refuse, small dead animals and dead fowls, from any premises within the city limits.
includes, but is not limited to, business houses, residences, offices, theaters, hotels, restaurants, hospitals, medical clinics, schools, nursing homes, retail establishments, nurseries, charitable and religious institutions, gas stations, manufacturing and processing plants, all other such grounds upon which the same are located, tracts of land, vacant lots, and all other places where garbage, trash, rubbish and/or waste accumulate.
means the largest or most physically dominant improvement on real property.
means all individuals who are residents of, own real property in, or have the principal office of their principal places of business located in the county, and all partnerships, corporations, associations, firms, or other business entities who own real property or have the principal office of their principal place of business located in the county.
refers to buildings, or rooms fitted or used, in part or in whole, for private human sleeping accommodations and household activities including, but not limited to, individual residential houses, manufactured homes, garage apartments, and multifamily housing.
refers to use of the Jefferson-Marion County Solid Waste Site to dispose of brush, debris, garbage, and trash from an individual's principal place of residence or principal business; provided, such brush, debris, garbage, and trash is disposed of in a vehicle and/or trailer which does not exceed one ton in weight.
means items including, but not limited to, tin and/or aluminum cans, paper, empty bottles or glass containers, fragmented glass, scraps of iron or other metal, wire, plastic articles, empty boxes, and other such waste product items of normal household activity.
means wood, metal, or plastic dumpsters, boxes or containers, fixed with a lid or other opening, which has as its primary purpose the temporary storage of waste.
means items including, but not limited to, used rubber articles, pieces of wood, rope, empty boxes, sheetrock, weeds, grass, tree limbs, lawn and shrub trimmings, insulation, pipe, and any items associated with building construction.
(Code 1980, § 8.1; Ordinance of 3/11/1985; Ordinance of 2/23/1987, § 1; Ordinance of 6/8/1987(1), § 1; Ordinance of 2/8/2001, § 1.01)