§ 34-730. Definitions.
As used in this article, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the following words or phrases shall have the following meanings:
Bulk waste shall mean dry type wastes such as discarded tires, white goods, furniture, appliances, land clearing material, oversize tree trunks and/or limbs, and/or similar material.
Dispose means to discharge, deposit, inject, burn, dump, place or get rid of any liquid, trash, litter, or garbage into, or on any land, or water so that such liquid, trash, litter, or garbage, or any constituent thereof, may enter into and upon the environment or transfer to the control of another person in a manner inconsistent with this article or any other state or local law, regulation, or ordinance.
Garbage shall mean all household or domestic waste, including waste from the preparation and cooking of food, vegetable, fruit, and meat scraps, ashes, cans and bottles, paper, floor sweepings, cardboard, and other such material to be disposed of from residents, churches, schools, office buildings, business establishments and similar places.
Governing authority means Fulton County ("county"), its board of commissioners, and where delegated [designated] by the board of commissioners, the directors of the Fulton County Department of Public Works, and the department of the environment and community development.
Litter means all discarded sand, liquid, bulk waste, gravel, slag, brickbats, rubbish, waste material, tin cans, refuse, garbage, trash, debris, dead animals or discarded materials of every kind and description.
Litter receptacle shall mean a receptacle designed and constructed to receive, collect, store and contain litter in a lawful, convenient and spill-proof manner.
Owner shall mean any person, firm or corporation owning, leasing, renting, occupying, or managing any premises in unincorporated Fulton County or any area within the jurisdiction of the governing authority.
Person shall mean any individual, trust, firm, association, joint-stock company, corporation (including a government corporation), partnership, organization, municipality, commission, or political subdivision, or any agency, board, department, or bureau of this state or any other state or of the federal government.
Public or private property means the right-of-way of any road or highway; any body of water or watercourse or the shores or beaches thereof; any park, playground, building, refuge or conservation or recreation area, and residential or farm properties, timberland or forest.
Refuse means garbage, rubbish, or commercial solid waste.
Rubbish means discarded waste paper, cartons, boxes, wood, tree branches, yard trimmings, furniture, appliances, metals, cans, glass crockery, dunnage and/or similar materials.
Trash means any combustible and noncombustible nonputrescible solid waste, of a size and form which can be easily deposited in, and removed—by Fulton County personnel or lawfully removed by any other entity—from containers provided by the county or any other entity for the disposal and collection of solid waste from residences, and which includes paper, cardboard, small metal items or containers and packaging materials, and similar items normally accumulated in the care and maintenance of residential or commercial property.
Vegetative overgrowth means any and all uncultivated vegetative growth exceeding a height of 12 inches, as measured vertically from the surface of the ground, and covering a portion of any lot, tract or parcel of land which is not occupied by buildings, other structures or trees, but not including riparian vegetation located on any water frontage area.
Weeds means all rank, vegetative growth, including kudzu, poison ivy, plants of obnoxious odors, weeds and grasses causing hay fever or those which serve as a breeding place for mosquitoes and other unhealthy or undesirable insects or as a refuge for snakes, rats or other rodents or as a hiding place for filth, litter or trash or that create a fire or traffic hazard or provide a hiding place for persons.
(Ord. No. 98-0379, 3-4-98; Ord. No. 18-0340, Att. A, 5-16-18)