Discussion and Review of Tiffin Municipal Code Revisions – Preparation for Setting the Public Hearing — Tiffin City Code - DRAFT

CHAPTER 105 SOLID WASTE CONTROL 105.01 Purpose 105.07 Littering Prohibited 105.02 Definitions 105.08 Toxic and Hazardous Waste 105.03 Sanitary Disposal Required 105.09 Waste Storage Containers 105.04 Health and Fire Hazard 105.10 Prohibited Practices 105.05 Open Burning Restricted 105.11 Recycling Program 105.06 Separation of Yard Waste Required 105.01 PURPOSE. The purpose of the chapters in this Code pertaining to Solid Waste Control and Collection is to provide for the sanitary storage, collection, and disposal of solid waste and, thereby, to protect the citizens of the City from such hazards to their health, safety, and welfare as may result from the uncontrolled disposal of solid waste. 105.02 DEFINITIONS. For use in these chapters the following terms are defined: 1. “Collector” means any person authorized to gather solid waste from public and private places. 2. “Discard” means to place, cause to be placed, throw, deposit, or drop. (Code of Iowa, Sec. 455B.361(1)) 3. “Dwelling unit” means any room or group of rooms located within a structure and forming a single habitable unit with facilities that are used or are intended to be used for living, sleeping, cooking, and eating. 4. “Garbage” means all solid and semisolid, putrescible animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparing, cooking, storing, serving, and consuming of food or of material intended for use as food, and all offal, excluding useful industrial by-products, and includes all such substances from all public and private establishments and from all residences. (567 IAC 100.2) 5. “Landscape waste” means any vegetable or plant waste except garbage. The term includes trees, tree trimmings, branches, stumps, brush, weeds, leaves, grass, shrubbery, and yard trimmings. (567 IAC 20.2) 6. “Litter” means any garbage, rubbish, trash, refuse, waste materials, or debris not exceeding 10 pounds in weight or 15 cubic feet in volume. Litter includes but is not limited to empty beverage containers, cigarette butts, food waste packaging, other food or candy wrappers, handbills, empty cartons, or boxes. (Code of Iowa, Sec. 455B.361(2)) 7. “Owner” means, in addition to the record titleholder, any person residing in, renting, leasing, occupying, operating, or transacting business in any premises, and as between such parties the duties, responsibilities, liabilities, and obligations hereinafter imposed shall be joint and several. CODE OF ORDINANCES, TIFFIN, IOWA - 849 -