§ 16-601. Designation; definitions.

(a)

Designation. This article shall be known as the Solid Waste Ordinance of the city.

(b)

Definitions. The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this subsection, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

Premises means business houses, office buildings, boarding houses, theaters, hotels, restaurants, cafes, eating houses, tourist camps, apartments, sanitariums, rooming houses, schools, private residences, vacant lots and all other places within the city limits, where garbage, trash or rubbish accumulates in ordinary quantities.

Solid waste means:

(1)

Dry kitchen refuse means the solids after the liquid or slop has been drained off.

(2)

Kitchen garbage means dry kitchen refuse, all meat, vegetables and fruit refuse, small dead animals and fowls, from any premises within the city limits.

(3)

Rubbish means tin cans, bottles, glass, scraps of tin, or any other small metals from any premises within the city limits.

(4)

Trash means paper of all kinds, rags, old clothing, paper containers, old rubber, pieces of wood, boxes, (weeds, grass and leaves when placed in some kind of container) from any premises within the city limits.

(Ord. No. 48, § 1, 11-22-1982)