For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning:
Residue from the burning of wood, coal, or combustible material.
Includes, but is not limited to, tree branches, bush branches, marsh plants such as cattails, tropical grasses such as bamboo, and all other similar plant life, twigs, and trimmings that are generally too large or otherwise impractical to place in the residential container.
Large rubbish items including but not limited to household appliances, bicycles, furniture, rugs, mattresses, televisions, tree limbs, fence material, and other similar items.
City Manager or his or her designee.
Official documentation obtained from a licensed professional containing serial numbers or other identifying number and verification that all refrigerants, chlorinated fluorocarbons (CFC) or polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) have been removed from the appliance and properly disposed.
A person that hauls another's refuse for a fee.
Commercial container, residential containers, recycling containers, and bags for yard waste as defined herein.
A metal or plastic receptacle for business refuse, also known as a dumpster, designed to be lifted and emptied mechanically.
A plastic receptacle owned and furnished by the city for a resident to place recyclable materials for collection.
A plastic receptacle for residential refuse with two wheels and a lid, designed to be lifted and emptied mechanically.
Putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from handling, preparation, cooking, or consumption of food.
Waste that is generated by a household that could pose a risk to human health or the environment due to ignitability, corrosivity, reactivity, or toxicity. Examples of household hazardous wastes are lead acid batteries, gasoline, degreasers, paints, pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers, pool chemicals, paint thinners, glues, cleaning products, radioactive or irradiated material, and pharmaceuticals.
Refuse generated from some location other than the collection location.
A material that has been recovered or diverted from the nonhazardous wastestream for purposes of reuse, recycling, or reclamation, a substantial portion of which is consistently used in the manufacture of products that otherwise may be produced using raw or virgin materials. Recyclable material is not solid waste. However, recyclable material may become solid waste if it is disposed of in any manner other than recycling, as defined below.
A process by which materials that have served their intended use or are scrapped, discarded, used, surplus, or obsolete are collected, separated, or processed and returned to use in the form of raw materials in the production of a new product.
All putrescible and nonputrescible solid wastes, including garbage, rubbish, yard waste, and ashes.
Any building, or portion thereof, which is designed for use for residential purposes.
A person who resides in the city.
Includes bulk, brush, garbage, refuse, recycling, and other allowable waste as set forth in this chapter 50 of the Code of Ordinances, including waste placed in residential containers.
Nonputrescible solid waste, such as waste wood products, tree trimmings, grass cuttings, leaves, paper, discarded mattresses, wire, glass, and scraps of metal.
Garbage, rubbish, refuse, sludge from a wastewater treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility, and other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semi-solid, or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, municipal, commercial, mining, and agricultural operations and from community and institution activities. The term does not include:
Solid or dissolved material in domestic sewage or solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or industrial discharges subject to regulation;
Soil, dirt, rock, sand, and other natural or manmade inert solid materials used to fill land if the object of the fill is to make the land suitable for the construction of surface improvements;
Waste materials that result from activities associated with the exploration, development, or production of oil or gas or geothermal resources and are subject to control by the Railroad Commission of Texas; or
Household hazardous waste.
Any natural or man-made hard, solid, nonmetallic mineral matter like bricks, tile, rock, or concrete.
See "rubbish."
Cut grass, leaves, small brush and tree trimmings that are bagged.
(Ordinance 4272 adopted 8/19/2025)