§ 50.01. DEFINITIONS.

For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.

CITY COMPOST BAG. A bag sold or designated for sale by the city as a suitable container for compost refuse.

CITY-DESIGNATED DISPOSAL FACILITY. A facility which the city has identified from time to time as an approved location for the disposal of refuse, leaves, yard waste, and/or recyclable materials.

CITY REFUSE BAG. A bag sold by the city as a suitable container for the purposes of residential refuse collection.

CITY REFUSE TAG. A tag sold by the city which may be attached to acceptable special refuse or compost for the purposes of collection.

COMMERCIAL REFUSE. Solid waste collected in commercial refuse collection that requires containers or receptacles.

COMMERCIAL REFUSE COLLECTION. Refuse pickup from all commercial, buildings, institutional, condominium development, and multi-unit residential establishments which regularly generate in excess of one cubic yard of solid waste per week.

COMPOST REFUSE. Grass clippings, weeds, leaves, hedge clippings, garden wastes, and twigs and brush no longer than four feet in length.

CONTAINERS or RECEPTACLES, COMMERCIAL. For the purposes of commercial refuse collection, CONTAINERS and RECEPTACLES shall mean durable, watertight metal containers or dumpsters with tight-fitting covers meeting National Solid Waste Management Association, American Standards Institute, and Consumer Products Safety Commission requirements as applicable to design, application, and safety.

DEMOLITION or CONSTRUCTION DEBRIS. Refuse that is incidental to construction, renovation, or demolition of buildings, other structures, or appurtenances on a premises.

DESIGNATED COLLECTOR. A licensed collector who has been awarded a contract within the city to collect refuse, leaves, yard waste, and/or recyclable materials.

LICENSED COLLECTOR. A collection agent who has received a material collection license from the city.

RECYCLABLE MATERIAL. These materials may include but are not limited to newspaper, corrugated cardboard, magazines, computer print-out paper, office paper, glass containers, plastics, tin cans, ferrous metal, and aluminum containers or articles separated for the express purpose of preparation for the delivery to a secondary market or other use.

REFUSE. Putrescible and vegetable waste resulting from handling, preparation, cooking, and consumption of food; normal waste material resulting from household or living conditions; it shall not include refuse from industrial plants or compost material; nor shall it include human body waste or any material that has been identified by state or federal regulation to be unsuitable for disposal in a Type II sanitary landfill.

RESIDENTIAL REFUSE. Solid waste collected in residential refuse collection.

RESIDENTIAL REFUSE COLLECTION. Weekly refuse pickup from residential buildings with no more than two dwelling units and from small commercial establishments which regularly generate less than one cubic yard of solid waste per week.

SPECIAL REFUSE. White goods, furniture, household appliances, and other bulky refuse items, with the exception of construction and demolition debris, that are unsuitable for regular refuse collection services.

TYPE II SANITARY LANDFILL. As defined in Public Act 641, being M.C.L.A. §§ 324.11501 et seq.

(1993 Code, § 50.01) (Ord. 90-4, passed 8-20-1990)