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As used in this chapter, the following words and terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section:
DWELLING: A building or portion thereof used exclusively for residential occupancy, including single-family, two-family, and multi-family dwellings, but not including hotels, motels, condominiums, lodging houses, apartments, group homes or tourist homes.
DWELLING UNIT: One or more rooms in a dwelling, occupied by one family for living, sleeping and eating purposes.
RECYCLABLE: Waste material that may be collected, separated, cleansed, treated or reconstituted and returned to the economic stream in the form of raw materials or products, and which is approved for collection as a recyclable. The director of the public works department shall determine which materials are suitable for collection as recyclables based upon the city's ability to recycle such materials in a reasonable and economical manner.
REFUSE: Includes and means all animal and vegetable refuse from kitchens of residences, hotels, cafes, restaurants and places where food is prepared for human consumption, including all animal and vegetable refuse from such kitchens; and also all condemned or decayed or unsound vegetables, meat, fish, fruit and all waste and offal therefrom from markets, stores and factories. The term "refuse" shall also include normal household trash, cardboard boxes, grass, leaves, yard trimmings, tree limbs and shrub trimmings; provided, however, that it shall not include waste from slaughterhouses, hot stove ashes or coals, dirt, sod, rocks, concrete, flammable materials such as oil, gas or paint, large bulky items such as appliances, furniture, metal objects, construction, remodeling or demolition debris, car parts, mattresses, rolls of carpet, animal carcasses or hazardous wastes.
STOVE ASHES: Includes the residue of material burned in stoves and in furnaces in private residences, but shall not include the residue from furnaces in apartment houses, hotels, business houses, heating or manufacturing plants. An "apartment house" is defined as a building comprising three (3) or more units designated for separate housekeeping tenements with heat furnished in common.
(Ord. 796, 10-4-2011)