Sec. 102-1. Definitions.

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:

Approved container means any container for solid waste, such as plastic or metal garbage cans with tops, or plastic garbage bags properly tied shut, which will hold solid waste, protect it from the elements, and keep it contained for hand dumping into collector trucks. Containers when full should not exceed 50 pounds in weight.

Bulky waste items include furniture, white goods (appliances such as stove, refrigerators, water heaters, washing machines, dryers), tree cuttings (must be no more than five feet in length) and construction materials limited to one cubic yard or less.

Commercial/industrial means places of commerce or industry generating solid waste streams generally and typically two cubic yards or more per week; and also multiple business units occupying premises under common ownership, such as shopping centers, when a common owner has elected to consolidate the solid waste stream thereby generating solid waste typically and generally two cubic yards or more per week.

Contractor or private solid waste contractor means that sanitation company to which the city's bid was let for the residential solid waste contract, for units which generate less than two cubic yards of solid waste per week.

Extraordinary materials means hazardous wastes, body wastes, dead animals, abandoned vehicles, vehicle parts, large equipment and parts thereof.

Garbage means the same as and defined as solid waste.

Hazardous materials means wastes that are hazardous by reason of their pathological, explosive, radiological or toxic characteristics, or by virtue of their being defined as hazardous by any state or federal law or regulation.

Multiple residential unit means a structure containing five or more dwelling units.

Private collector means any person or business entity which meets city qualifications and has a contract with the city to convey or transport solid waste within the city for units which generate two cubic yards or more of solid waste per week.

Rubbish or yard trash means the same as and shall be defined as solid waste.

Solid waste means all putrescible and nonputrescible waste in solid or semisolid form including, but not limited to, garbage, rubbish, ashes or incinerator residue, or street refuse, but excluding extraordinary materials and hazardous materials, as defined herein, except large branches, trees or bulky or noncombustible materials not susceptible to normal loading and collection in loadpacker type sanitation equipment used for regular collections from domestic households (tree trimmings shall be tied in bundles not exceeding four feet in length or weighing over 50 pounds and placed at the curb for pickup).

Special materials means those bulky materials or other special wastes that are not stored in approved containers and cannot be picked up by hand.

Trash means the same as and shall be defined as solid waste.

Units means places of residences or businesses within the city which generally and typically generate less than two cubic yards of solid waste per week. With respect to residences, a single unit is a dwelling place in which a single family or group of individuals regularly live and share common bath and kitchen facilities. With respect to businesses, a single unit is a single place of business owned and operated for the benefit of the owner of the business. Combined units of businesses, such as shopping centers, if the waste stream is separated for each such unit, are considered as units hereunder, unless the common owner of all such units elects to combine such waste stream into consolidated containers, thereby generating two cubic yards or more per week, in which case, these units shall not be serviced hereunder, but shall be serviced through the common owner by a commercial/industrial contractor.

(Code 1973, § 28 1/2-1; Ord. No. 3378, § 1, 9-23-03; Ord. No. 4037, § 1, 3-27-07)