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The following definitions shall be applicable in this chapter:

A. “Authorized receptacle” means a public or private litter storage and collection receptacle.

B. “Garbage” means waste from the preparation, cooking or consumption of food, condemned food products, and all refuse and waste from the handling, storage, preparation and sale of produce. Garbage originates primarily in kitchens, stores, markets, restaurants, hotels and other places where food is handled, stored, sold, cooked or consumed.

C. “Handbill” means any printed or written matter, any sample or device, dodger, circular, leaflet, pamphlet, newspaper, magazine, paper, booklet, or any other printed or otherwise reproduced original or copies of any matter or literature.

D. “Litter” means “garbage,” “refuse” and “rubbish,” as defined in this chapter, and all other waste material which, if thrown or deposited as prohibited in this chapter, tends to create a danger to public health, safety, welfare or appearance of the city.

E. “Newspaper” means any newspaper of general or local circulation or any periodical or current magazine regularly published and offered to the public.

F. “Park” means a park, reservation, playground, beach, recreation center, or any other public area in the city, owned, used or managed by the city.

G. “Refuse” means all putrescible and nonputrescible solid wastes (except body wastes), including garbage, rubbish, ashes, street clearings, dead animals, and solid market and industrial wastes.

H. “Rubbish” means nonputrescible solid wastes consisting of both combustible and noncombustible wastes such as paper, wrapping, cigarettes, cardboard, tin cans, yard clippings, leaves, wood, glass, bedding, crockery and similar materials.

I. “Vehicle” means every device in, on, or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, including devices used exclusively on stationary rails or tracks. (Ord. 2018-07 § 1 (Exh. A (part)); Ord. 8/27/2002B (part))