Legal Documents of Pittman Center

As used in this chapter the following words and phrases shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section:

1. "Ashes" shall include the waste products from the burning of coal, wood and other fuels from residences or business.
2. "Business" or commercial premises shall include, but not be limited to, wholesale and retail commercial establishments and establishments that provide services, all including, but not limited to, professional offices, restaurants, markets, schools, medical clinics, houses of worship, motels, hotels, campgrounds, overnight rental structures, garages, automotive service stations and, in general, all premises that are not residential or agricultural.
3. "Collector" shall mean any person or entity that collects, transports or disposes of garbage and waste.
4. "Collectible garbage and waste" (sometimes referred to as "garbage and waste") shall be the garbage, refuse, rubbish or solid waste as is defined herein that the town shall collect. The town shall not collect ashes, housing appliances or furnishings, sewage (human or animal body wastes), automobile parts, motor oil, tires, machinery, tree leaves, limbs and branches, grass clipping, wood, stone and plastic debris from demolition or construction sites, plumbing fixtures, industrial by-products, dead animals, toxic materials or other similar items.
5. "Director" shall mean the town administrator or chief executive officer of the town or other person who may be specifically designated by the mayor and board of aldermen to be in charge of garbage and waste collection, hauling off and disposal.
6. "Garbage" shall include all putrescible wastes (except sewage--human or animal body wastes, vegetable and animal offal and carcasses of dead animals) from residences or businesses. Likewise excluded are recognizable industrial by-products. (See subsection (12).)
7. "Person" shall mean any and all entities, natural and artificial, including any individual, firm, association, partnership, corporation, company or other business organization, agency of any municipal corporation, agency of any county government, agency of any state government, or agency of the United States government.
8. "Refuse" shall include garbage, rubbish, ashes and all other putrescible or nonputrescible substances, combustible or non-combustible materials, products from the preparation, cooking or consumption of food, waste from the handling and sale of food supplies or produce, and similar sewage (human or animal body wastes) and recognizable industrial by-products. (see number 12)
9. "Residential" shall mean a private dwelling used as an abode or a unit in a multiple family dwelling used as a permanent abode. An "overnight rental" structure or unit specifically is not a residential premises.
10. "Rubbish" shall include all nonputrescible waste materials, except ashes, and does not include liquid or solid hazardous waste. (See subsection (12).)
11. "Solid waste" shall mean garbage, refuse or other discarded solid materials, including, but not limited to, materials resulting from residential, commercial or agricultural operations, but does not include solids or dissolved material in sewage or materials in water resources such as silt, dissolved or suspended solids in industrial waste water effluent, dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or other common water pollutants or other liquid or solid hazardous waste.
12. The terms "garbage," "refuse," "rubbish" and "solid waste" may on occasion be interchanged in this chapter. (2000 Code, § 17-101)