§ 44-87. Definitions.

The following definitions shall apply to the interpretation and enforcement of this division:

Bulky refuse means discarded appliances such as stoves, refrigerators, water tanks, washing machines, discarded furniture, and inoperable motor vehicles, or similar bulky materials having a weight greater than 75 pounds and/or volume greater than 35 gallons.

Garbage means putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food.

Litter means garbage, refuse, rubbish, and all other waste materials.

Nuisance means structures or buildings in such a state of deterioration or abandonment that it is a blighting influence on neighboring properties. The fact that buildings on neighboring properties are abandoned or deteriorated is not a defense.

Person means every natural person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, municipal corporation or public authority.

Refuse, as a comprehensive term, means any worthless leaving to be discarded, including but not limited to, garbage, bulky refuse, rubbish, and industrial and hazardous waste.

Rubbish means all combustible and noncombustible waste materials, except garbage. The term shall include the residue from the burning of wood, coal, coke, and other combustible materials, paper, rags, cartons, boxes, wood, excelsior, rubber, leather, tree branches, yard trimmings, tin cans, metals, mineral matter glass, crockery, dust, and other similar materials.

Urban blight means a condition existing on property such as weeds, grass, undergrowth and uncut shrubbery without apparent or patent supervision by an owner or tenant so that the exterior of property is in disrepair, contains excessive amounts of high weeds, tall grass, unkempt greenery and undergrowth about the premises creating an invitation to dust, obstructions to view, harbor for unauthorized persons or animals, or venom.

(Code 1992, § 28-76; Ord. No. 17, § I, 10-26-1987; Ord. No. 332, 7-23-2007)

Cross reference

Definitions and rules of construction, § 1-2.