King City Municipal Code Ch. 8.04 Definitions

The following words, when used in this title, shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this chapter.

(Ord. 327 § 1, 1970)

“City” means the city of King.

(Ord. 327 § 1(h), 1970)

“Contractor” means any person with whom the city shall have duly contracted under the terms hereinafter set out in this title to collect and transport garbage and rubbish through, in and from the city, and to dispose of same.

(Ord. 327 § 1(d), 1970)

“Council” means the city council of the city of King.

(Ord. 327 § 1(g), 1970)

“Garbage” means all putrescible or easily decomposable animal or vegetable matter, including dead animals of less than ten pounds in weight, and including all refuse accumulations of animal, fruit or vegetable matter that attend the preparation, use, cooking, dealing in or storage of meat, fish, fowl, fruits or vegetables.

(Ord. 327 § 1(a), 1970)

“Garden refuse” means and includes trimmings from lawns, shrubberies, trees, and flower and vegetable gardens.

(Ord. 327 § 1(c), 1970)

“Person” means every natural person, firm, copartnership, association, or corporation.

(Ord. 327 § 1(f), 1970)

“Premises” means any dwelling, place of residence, rooming house, hotel, motel, apartment, court, trailer camp, labor camp, club, restaurant, tavern, bar, boardinghouse, eating place, shop and place of business, or any other housing accommodation, building, grounds, or location, where garbage or rubbish is or may be produced or accumulated, including all sidewalk, curb, gutter, and street and alley areas adjacent thereto.

(Ord. 327 § 1(e), 1970)

“Rubbish” means all matters and materials not defined as garbage but which are rejected by the owners or producers thereof as useless, and includes crockery, bottles, tin cans, metal vessels or containers, pasteboard boxes or cartons, wooden boxes or containers, rags, paper, straw, sawdust, packing materials, ashes, metals and boards, but excludes “Garden Refuse,” as that term is defined in Section 8.04.060.

(Ord. 327 § 1(b), 1970)