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

B. “Litter” means garbage, refuse or rubbish as defined herein which is not within a receptacle provided therefor.

C. “Person” means any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company or organization of any kind.

D. “Private premises” means any private property, together with any structure thereon, whether inhabited or temporarily or continuously uninhabited or vacant, including the yard, grounds, walks, driveway, porch, steps, vestibule or entryway thereof and any off-street parking area.

E. “Public place” means any and all public streets, sidewalks, gutters, boulevards, alleys or other public rights-of-way and any and all public buildings, parks, squares, grounds and publicly owned off-street parking area.

F. “Refuse” means all putrescible and nonputrescible solid wastes (except human body waste) including garbage, rubbish, ashes, street cleanings, dead animals, animal feces and solid market and industrial wastes.

G. “Rubbish” means nonputrescible solid waste consisting of both combustible and noncombustible wastes including, but not limited to, paper, wrappings, cardboard, tin cans, weeds, dry grasses, dead trees and shrubs, yard clippings, leaves, dirt (other than the natural soil, in place), pieces of broken asphalt or concrete, wood, glass, bedding, crockery and similar materials.

H. “Sidewalk” means the paved and unpaved, planted or unplanted area maintained between the property line and the curb line or the edge of the surfaced roadway and includes a driveway, curbing, bulkhead, retaining wall or other works for the protection of any sidewalk or parking located in any public street, way or thoroughfare within the city. (Ord. 4810 § 1, 2015; Ord. 3070 § 2, 1986)