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For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them by this section:

“Ashes” means the solid waste products of coal, wood and other fuels used for heating and cooking;

“Brush” includes sawdust, wood waste, logs and tree limbs;

“Commercial establishment” means any establishment, whether or not utilized for private gain, that is not a residence or a public food establishment as defined in this section;

“Garbage” means and includes all putrescible waste, including vegetable and animal offal but not including carcasses of dead animals, sewage and human remains or body wastes;

“Multifamily residence” means any building or establishment in which three or more families are separately housed, including mobile home parks, rooming houses and boarding houses;

“Occupied premises” means any premises that is not an “unoccupied premises” as defined in this section;

“Person” means any person, firm, partnership, association or corporation;

“Public food establishment” means any restaurant, hotel, cafe, drinking place, grocery, food market, boardinghouse, school, church or any other establishment where food or drink is served, provided or prepared for the public with or without charge;

“Residence” means any separate living unit or a combination of two living units situated on one premises in which up to and including two families are separately housed;

“Rubbish” means and includes all nonputrescrible waste except ashes;

“Sanitary fill operator” means the person entering into a contract with the City, if so designated by the City Council, for the disposal of solid waste as provided in this chapter;

“Sanitary landfill” means the method of disposing of refuse on land without creating nuisances or hazards to public health or safety, but utilizing the principles of engineering to confine the refuse to the smallest practical area, to reduce it to the smallest practical volume, and to cover it with a layer of earth at the conclusion of each day’s operation or at such more frequent intervals as may be necessary;

“Solid waste” means all putrescible and nonputrescrible solid and semisolid waste, including garbage, rubbish, ashes, industrial waste, swill, demolition or construction waste, abandoned vehicles or parts thereof and discarded commodities;

“Solid waste collector” means the person entering into a contract with the City, if so designated by the City Council, for the collection and transportation of solid waste as provided in this chapter;

“Swill” means every solid waste accumulation of animal, fruit or vegetable matter, liquid or otherwise, that attends the preparation, cooking, dealing in or storing of meat, fish, fowl, fruit, or vegetables but not including coffee grounds;

“Unoccupied premises” means any residence or establishment that does not currently house a person or family, or is in current use for which the owner or his authorized agent has notified the City Finance Director that the premises is so vacant for a minimum time period of more than one week. [Ord. 1537 §§ 2.1 - 2.16, 1972; Code 1970 § 6.04.020.]