§ 38-1. Definitions.  


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  • 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:

    Commercial refuse consists of garbage and trash, produced in the operation of retail stores.

    Contractor's refuse consists of waste materials or debris, resulting from fires or construction, repairs, alteration or demolition of buildings or other structures.

    Garbage consists of animal and vegetable matter, waste from kitchens, restaurants and food stores, and all burnable rubbish such as paper, cardboard, rags, floor sweepings, excelsior, boxes or barrels of wood when broken up, and similar small articles of burnable nature.

    Manufacturing or trade refuse consists of special or unusual wastes resulting from manufacturing processes.

    Trash consists of nonburnable rubbish, such as ashes, bottles, tin cans, crockery, scrap metal, as well as yard rubbish, cut grass, clippings of vines, shrubs and plants and tree branches when properly prepared as provided in this chapter.

(Code 1976, § 9:1; Ord. No. 590, § 1, 6-10-1963)