§ 16-21. Definitions.

(a)

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

Brush means scrub vegetation or dense undergrowth.

Carrion means the dead and putrefying flesh of any animal, fowl or fish.

Filth means any matter in a putrescence state.

Garbage means all decayable wastes.

Impure or unwholesome matter means any putrescible or nonputrescible condition, object or matter which tends, may or could produce injury, death or disease to human beings.

Junk means all worn out, worthless, or discarded material, including, but not limited to, old machinery or parts of same, old iron or other metal, glass, cordage or building materials.

Objectionable, unsightly or unsanitary matter means any matter, condition or object which could attract rodents, reptiles or insects, and which is or could be objectionable, unsightly or unsanitary to a person of ordinary sensitivities.

Owner means a person having title to or claiming, occupying, or having supervision or control of real property.

Refuse means a heterogeneous accumulation of worn out, used up, broken, rejected, or worthless materials, and includes garbage, rubbish, paper or litter, and other decayable or nondecayable waste.

Rubbish means trash, debris, rubble, stone, fragments of building materials or other miscellaneous useless waste or rejected matter.

Weeds means vegetation that because of its height (12 inches or higher) is objectionable, unsightly or unsanitary, but excluding:

(1)

Shrubs, bushes and trees;

(2)

Cultivated flowers and cultivated wild flowers;

(3)

Cultivated crops.

(b)

Any word not defined herein shall be construed in the context used and by ordinary interpretation not as a word of art.

(Code 1990, ch. 6, § 2(A); Ord. of 5-8-1970; Ord. No. 2016-12-6-33 , § I, 12-6-2016)