Unless otherwise specified, the following terms, as used in this Chapter, shall mean as follows:

(a)   Waste or Wastes: Shall mean useless, unused, unwanted or discarded materials resulting from normal community activities. Wastes include solids, liquids or gases.

(b)   Refuse: Shall mean all putrescible and nonputrescible waste materials (except body wastes) such as trash, garbage, tree trimmings, grass cutting, dead animals and industrial wastes but shall not include human or animal excrements, salvage or inert materials produced in connection with the erection or demolition of buildings.

(c)   Trash or Rubbish: Shall mean all nonputrescible animal and vegetable wastes including but not limited to paper, cardboard, tin cans, glass, wood, yard clippings, crockery, metals, and ashes.

(d)   Garbage: Shall mean the putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling, preparation, cooling and consumption of food;

(e)   Industrial Refuse: Shall mean the solid wastes resulting from industrial processes.

(f)   Dead Animals: Shall mean those that die in the normal course of community activity, excluding condemned animals at slaughter houses or any other animals normally considered industrial refuse.

(g)   Manure: Shall mean the body discharges of all animals except humans;

(h)   Human Excreta: Shall mean the body discharges (both feces and urine) of humans.

(i)    Sewage: Shall mean a combination of the water carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together with such ground surface and storm waters as may be present.

(j)    Salvage Materials: Shall mean materials of some value that are obtained from the disassembly of various kinds of machinery and mechanical appliances and/or the demolition of buildings or similar structures;

(k)   Salvage Yard: Shall mean any premises used for:

(1)   The sale and resale of used merchandise;

(2)   The disassembling of wrecked or used automobiles and sale of auto parts, and;

(3)   The collection, sorting, storage and/or resale of various kinds of metal and/or used building materials.

(l)    Foodstuffs: Shall mean all food used for human consumption;

(m)  Rodents: Shall mean the so-called domestic rodents Rattus norvegicus, Rattus rattus alexandrinus and Rattus rattus, domestic mice, Mus musculus and other wild native rodents associated with the transmission of diseases affecting man or other animals.

(n)   Insects: Shall mean the following classes of Arthropoda:

(1)   Insects; and;

(2)   Arachnida, including flies, lice, cockroaches, bedbugs, plant bugs and mites, ticks, spiders and scorpions.

(o)   Control Measures: Shall mean any chemical, structural, physical procedures, or processes designed to eradicate, minimize, prevent or otherwise limit the reproduction and/or infestation of insects, rodents or other animal populations detrimental to public health.

(p)   Premises: Shall mean a lot, plot or parcel of land, including the dwellings and structures, if any, located thereon.

(q)   Sanitation Code – Rules and regulations adopted by the city which are designated to minimize or control environments and environmental conditions that may adversely affect the health and well-being of the public, such as but not limited to liquid wastes, solid wastes, weeds, insects, rodents, animal shelters, abandoned vehicles, junk, salvage, dilapidated auxiliary structures or other matters as herein presented.

(r)    Health Officer: Shall mean the Governing Body’s authorized representative, which may include the Director of the Sedgwick County Department of Health and Environment, or the Director’s designee.

(s)   City: Shall mean the City of Colwich, Sedgwick County, Kansas.

(Ord. 479, Sec. 1; Code 2004)