§ 102-157. Definitions.

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

Accumulation of weeds includes but is not limited to permitting or allowing the growth of weeds.

Garbage includes but is not limited to the following: waste resulting from the handling of edible foodstuffs or resulting from decay, solid or semisolid putrescible waste, and all other mixed, nonrecyclable wastes which are generated in the day-to-day operation of any business, residential, governmental, public or private activity, and may include tin cans, bottles and paper or plastic, or other synthetic material, food or beverage containers.

Refuse includes rubbish and garbage, as defined in this section.

Rubbish includes all the following, but is not restricted to nonputrescible wastes, such as paper, cardboard, grass clippings, tree or shrub trimmings, wood, bedding, crockery, rubber tires, construction waste and similar waste materials.

Weeds includes any of the following:

(1)

Weeds which bear seeds of a downy or wingy nature.

(2)

Sagebrush, chaparral, and any other brush or weeds which attain such hard growth as to become, when dry, a fire menace to adjacent improved property.

(3)

Weeds and grasses which are otherwise noxious.

(4)

Poison oak and poison ivy when the conditions of growth are such as to constitute a menace to the public health.

(5)

Dry grass, stubble, brush, litter, or other flammable material which endangers the public safety by creating a fire hazard.

(Ord. No. 97-01, § 2(17.12.020), 1-2-1997; Ord. No. 97-13, § 2, 3-26-1997; Ord. No. 97-17, § 2, 9-24-1997)

Cross reference

Definitions generally, § 1-2.