§ 86-131. Definitions.

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

Approved commercial waste container means a building, vehicle or container used to store or transport commercial waste, except brush, which is totally enclosed; which is of adequate strength and design to prevent leakage of leachates and spillage of other waste during storage, transport and emptying or loading; and which is regularly replaced or cleaned to prevent offensive odor and harborage, feeding and propagation of vectors.

Brush means the cuttings or trimmings from trees, shrubs or lawns and similar materials.

Building waste means waste generated by construction or demolition of buildings or other structures.

Commercial waste means any putrescible or nonputrescible, combustible or noncombustible discarded or used materials, including solid, liquid, semisolid or contained gaseous material such as garbage, trash, brush, leachate, building waste and junk, generated by industrial or manufacturing processes; food preparation or service; agricultural operations; oil and gas recovery; institutional, governmental or religious activities; retail or wholesale stores or shops; apartment complexes, condominium projects or manufactured home or recreational vehicle parks exceeding eight units; tree or lawn services; fishing operations; and other commercial activities.

Disposal means the discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking or placing of any commercial waste into or on any land, water or container.

Garbage means putrescible animal and vegetable waste generated by the acquisition, handling, preparation, cooking, service or consumption of food.

Junk means discarded or used appliances, machinery, vehicles, plumbing, gas and electrical fixtures, wires, pipes, metals and other similar materials and things when found in quantity.

Leachate means liquid that has passed through or emerged from putrescible waste or that contains soluble, suspended or miscible materials from other commercial waste.

Maintain means to passively permit to remain or actively refuse to remove.

Notice means actual notice or notice in writing, sent by registered or certified mail with return receipt requested and addressed to the owner or the registered agent of the owner of property at the location of the property, the address shown for the owner by the tax records of the city, or the address of the registered agent reflected by the records of the secretary of state. Notice given in writing in accordance with this article is presumed to have been received no later than five days after it was sent.

Public sewer system means all gutters, drains, pipes, lift stations, canals, equipment and plants of both storm and sanitary sewer systems.

Putrescible waste means wastes capable of being decomposed by microorganisms with sufficient rapidity as to cause nuisances from odors or gases and capable of providing food for or attracting birds or vectors, and includes garbage, human and animal wastes and leachate.

Small business means a commercial facility or multifamily residential property having eight or fewer offices or dwelling units whose refuse is residential in nature.

Trash means nonputrescible solid waste consisting of both combustible and noncombustible materials including paper, rags, cartons, wood, excelsior, furniture, rubber, plastics, glass, crockery, cans, metal furniture and similar materials.

Vector means rodents, flies and mosquitoes.

Waste means both commercial and residential waste.

(Code 1967, § 14-20; Ord. No. 3728, § 1, 12-14-83; Ord. No. 8151, § 6, 12-16-97)

Cross reference

Definitions generally, § 1-2.