For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms, phrases, words and their derivations shall have the meanings indicated below:
The residue from the burning of wood, coal coke or other combustible materials.
A metal container owned or provided by the owner or occupant of property receiving on-site collection service having the capacity of 1 1/2 cubic yards which is approved by the Superintendent of Public Works for the deposit of garbage, trash, refuse and recyclables while awaiting collection.
An unoccupied ground area, fully open to the sky, between the street line and a line drawn parallel thereto along the front of the building, extending from lot line to lot line.
The horizontal distance measured along the full length of a street line abutting the lot.
Putrescible animal and vegetable wastes, and other organic residues, resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food.
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 of public health, safety and welfare or tends to create blight.
Any boundary of a lot other than a street line.
Discarded newspapers, magazines and other printed material.
Grass clippings, weeds, leaves, branches, vegetative cuttings, twigs, shrubbery trimmings, and other similar organic landscaping-type materials generated from a property. Excluded are tree trunks, root systems, tree stumps, logs, and other large growing vegetation.
The individual or business entity or organization having title to a building or real property, including any part owner, joint owner, tenant in common, tenant in partnership, joint tenant or tenant by the entirety, of the whole or of a part of such building or land.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation, partnership, co-partnership, joint-stock company, trust, estate, governmental entity or any other legal entity or legal representatives, agents or assigns. The masculine gender shall include the feminine, the singular shall include the plural, where indicated by context.
Any public street, sidewalk, roadway, highway, parkway, public park, public mall, public parking lot and any private property the use of which owners and lessees have opened and offered to patrons or the public at large in the Village.
All components of any solid waste generated by a person which is required to be separated in accordance with Westchester County Source Separation Law.
Any method, technique or process utilized to separate, process, modify, convert, treat or otherwise prepare solid waste so that its component materials or substances may be beneficially used or reused.
All putrescible and nonputrescible solid wastes (except body wastes), including garbage, rubbish, ashes, street cleanings, dead animals and solid market and industrial wastes.
Nonputrescible, solid waste (excluding ashes), often referred to as "bulk" materials, consisting of both combustible and noncombustible wastes, such as bedding (mattresses and box springs), crockery, furniture and other household items and similar materials.
The throwing, depositing, sweeping littering, abandoning or spilling of waste materials, whether on private property or a public area.
The individual designated by the Village Manager as the head of the Department of Public Works regardless of title assigned to the position, and those designees duly authorized by said Superintendent or the Village Manager.