§ 12-16. Definitions.

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

Ashes shall mean the residue from burning of wood, coal, coke or other combustible materials.

Automobile graveyard shall mean any establishment or place of business which is maintained, operated, or used for storing, buying or selling wrecked, junked, scrapped, ruined or dismantled motor vehicles or motor vehicle parts.

Diseased animal shall mean an animal showing symptoms of a disease of having an illness or being in an unhealthy state. This shall include a vicious animal as defined under the Animal Control Act, 510 ILCS 5/1 et. seq.

Extermination shall mean the control and elimination of insects, rodents, or other pests by eliminating their harborage places by removing or making inaccessible materials that may serve as their food, by poisoning, spraying, trapping, or by any other recognized and legal method of pest elimination.

Garbage shall mean debris, junk, old or scrap copper, brass, rope, rags, batteries, paper, trash, rubber debris, waste, or junked, dismantled or wrecked automobiles, or parts thereof, iron, steel, and other old or scrap ferrous or nonferrous material, inoperable appliances, unusable furniture, and dimensional lumber from dismantled buildings, and putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food.

Household pets shall mean dogs, cats, hamsters, birds, or similar animals being kept solely on private premises for noncommercial purposes.

Infestation shall mean the presence, within a dwelling or other building, on the premises or storage site of insects, rodents, or other pests.

Inoperable motor vehicle shall mean any motor vehicle which, for a period of at least seven (7) days, the engine, wheels or other parts have been removed, or on which the engine, wheels or other parts have been altered, damaged or otherwise so treated that the vehicle in incapable of being driven under its own motor power. The term "inoperable motor vehicle" shall not include a motor vehicle which has been rendered temporarily incapable of being driven under its own motor power in order to perform ordinary service or repair operations.

Junk shall mean old or scrap copper, brass, rope, rags, batteries, paper, trash, rubber debris, waste, or junked, dismantled or wrecked automobiles, or parts thereof, iron, steel, and other old or scrap ferrous or nonferrous material, inoperable appliances, unusable furniture, and dimensional lumber from dismantled buildings.

Junk vehicle shall mean any motor vehicle which is wrecked, scrapped, ruined, partially dismantled, wholly dismantled, inoperative, abandoned or discarded, and/or fails to display current valid licensing.

Junkyard shall mean an establishment or place of business which is maintained, operated, or used for storing, keeping, buying or selling junk, or for the maintenance or operation of an automobile graveyard and mobile home salvage yard.

Manure shall mean the excrement of all domestic animals, household pets, fowl, and stable bedding.

Motor vehicle shall mean any vehicle which is self-propelled and designed to travel along the ground and shall include, but not be limited to, automobiles, buses, motor bikes, motorcycles, motor scooters, trucks, go carts, golf carts, campers and trailers.

Mobile home salvage yard shall mean an establishment or place of business which is maintained, operated or used for storing, keeping, buying or selling wrecked, scrapped, junked, ruined or dismantled mobile homes or mobile home parts, and does not include the repair of mobile homes by mobile home dealers who refurbish and sell used but not wrecked, scrapped, junked, ruined, or dismantled homes.

Person shall mean any natural person, firm, club, corporation, association, partnership, company, organization, or political subdivision.

Premises shall mean public and/or private property, either improved or vacant, inhabited or uninhabited, including buildings and other structures, vehicles, watercrafts and/or parts thereof.

Refuse shall mean all putrescible and nonputrescible solid wastes, (except body wastes), including garbage, junk, rubbish, ashes, street cleanings, dead animals, abandoned automobiles, discarded household appliances and solid market and industrial wastes.

Rodents shall mean rats and mice.

Rubbish shall mean nonputrescible solid wastes (excluding ashes), consisting of both combustible and noncombustible wastes such as paper, cardboard, tin cans, yard clippings, wood, glass, bedding, crockery, and similar materials.

Scrap processing facilities shall mean any establishment having facilities for processing iron, steel, nonferrous scrap, mineral wastes or slag, and whose principal product is scrap iron, steel or nonferrous scrap for sale for remelting purposes only.

Storage site shall mean public and/or private property, either improved or vacant, including the buildings or structures thereon, vehicles, watercraft, or parts thereof, upon or in which refuse is stored for collection prior to final disposal.

Vermin shall mean roaches, bed bugs, fleas, lice or similar noxious or disgusting animal of small size.

(Ord. No. 92-2007, § I, 11-6-2007)