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93.02 Definitions
93.02 DEFINITIONS
 
For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
 
(a)        “BOARD” - The Board of Sanitary Commissioners of the City of Richmond or their authorized representatives.
 
(b)        “BULKY WASTE” - Refrigerators, stoves, appliances, and attachments, the doors of which must be removed or sealed. Furniture, bedding, carpeting, fencing, sacked or bundled clothes or any refuse which because of its size, shape or weight cannot be handled by normal disposal methods.
 
(c)        “COMMERCIAL GENERATOR” - A Facility generating solid refuse resulting from any commercial enterprise with the exception of industrial and residential enterprises.
 
(d)        “CONSTRUCTION REFUSE” - All refuse resulting from the construction, demolition, alteration, or repair of any building, structure, roadway, sidewalk, and so forth.
 
(e)        “GARBAGE” - Those putrescible wastes resulting from the growing, handling, storage, preparation, cooking, and consumption of food.
 
(f)         “GRASS CLIPPINGS” - That part of yard waste collected from the mowing and trimming of turf and grass, traditionally used as ground cover.
 
(g)        “HEALTH OFFICER” - The Health Officer having jurisdiction in WayneCounty, State of Indiana, or his authorized representative.
 
(h)        “INDUSTRIAL GENERATOR” - A facility generating solid refuse resulting from any manufacturing process not considered “special waste” nor “hazardous waste”.
 
(i)         “INDUSTRIAL REFUSE” - The solid refuse resulting from any manufacturing process.
 
(j)         “INSTITUTIONAL GENERATOR” - A facility generating solid refuse resulting from any governmental, religious, educational , recreational, or other not for profit, or property tax exempt facility.
(k)        “MULTI-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL GENERATOR” - Mobile home parks, campgrounds, condominiums, apartments, and other residential facilities containing three (3) or more residential units.
 
(l)         “OPEN BURNING” - Any fire from which the products of combustion are emitted directly into the outdoor atmosphere.
 
(m)      “OWNER” - Any person, corporation, partnership, trust or any entity which shall be the owner of any interest whatsoever of, or in, real property which is situated within the corporate limits of the City of Richmond.
 
(n)        “PERSON” - An individual, partnership, association, syndicate, company, firm, trust, corporation, government corporation, department, bureau, agency or any entity recognized by law.
 
(o)        “PRIVATE HAULER” - Any person who shall go from place to place within the city on any vehicle, mechanical or otherwise, for the purpose of collecting refuse as herein defined, or any person who shall engage in the business of collecting or disposing of refuse or recycled materials.
 
(p)        “REFUSE” - All putrescible and nonputrescible solid wastes, with the exception of body wastes, and shall include garbage, rubbish, ashes, street sweepings, dead animals, and industrial and construction wastes.
 
(q)        “RUBBISH” - All nonputrescible wastes including all combustible and non-combustible substances. Combustible rubbish shall mean relatively dry rubbish comprised chiefly of wood, paper, straw, cardboard, excelsior, sweepings, and all other similar articles of combustible nature. Incombustible rubbish shall mean rubbish incapable of incineration such as glass, cans, brick, stone, potterware, metallicware, ashes, and any other material that will not burn.
 
(r)        “SINGLE RESIDENTIAL GENERATOR” - Residential facilities containing not more than two residential units shall be considered a single residential generator.
 
(s)        “SOLID WASTE GENERATOR SERVICE AGREEMENT” - A service agreement for the class of user as follows:
 
(1)        “Multi-family Residential Generator”
(2)        “Commercial Generator”
(3)        “Institutional Generator”
(4)        “Industrial Generator”
 
(t)         “TRASH” - To include demolition, refuse, and rubbish (‘72 Code, 14.01) (Ord. 2432-1969; Ord. 11-1979)
 
(u)        “YARD WASTE”    
 
(1)        Tree limbs up to three inches in diameter and less than twelve feet long, a pile of limbs or brush up to two cubic yards. 
 
(2)        Bundles up to four feet long and two feet in diameter, weighing less than forty pounds. 
 
(3)        Leaves and garden waste, weeds, flowers, vegetables, straw, hay or similar material.


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