§ 11-1. Definitions.

The following words and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them:

Commercial units:

(1)

Commercial A unit. Hotels, restaurants, theatres, grocery and convenience stores, cocktail lounges (includes package stores, bars, taverns and saloons) selling or serving alcoholic beverages, drug stores, private athletic clubs and schools (public, private, parochial and denominational).

(2)

Commercial B unit. Any business establishment not included as a commercial A unit as defined in subsection (1) which occupies more than two thousand (2,000) square feet of floor space measured at the outside dimensions.

(3)

Commercial C unit. Any business establishment not included as a commercial A unit as defined in subsection (1) which occupies not more than two thousand (2,000) square feet of floor space measured at the outside dimensions.

(4)

Commercial D unit. Office units not included as a commercial A or C unit as defined in either subsection (1) or subsection (3) which occupies not more than two thousand (2,000) square feet of floor space measured at the outside dimensions.

(5)

Commercial E unit. Churches and fraternal lodges.

Dwelling unit is a residence occupied by and the place of abode of a single-family, where one (1) kitchen only is provided and maintained.

Garbage means every refuse accumulation of animal, fruit or vegetable matter that attends the preparation, use, cooking and dealing in, or storage of, meats, fish, fowl, fruit or vegetables; any other matter, of any nature whatsoever, which is subject to decay, putrefaction and the generation of noxious or offensive gases or odors, or which, during or after decay, may serve as breeding or feeding material for flies or other germ-carrying insects; and any bottles, cans, or other containers, which, due to their ability to retain water may serve as breeding places for mosquitoes or other water breeding insects; and pet waste.

Garbage container means a city approved plastic container for the purpose of temporarily storing waste for collection and disposal.

Growth means all accumulations of foliage, grass, shrubbery, vines, palmettos or wild vegetation of any kind or nature whatsoever.

Industrial waste means all waste material, empty boxes or barrels, garbage and refuse of every description when same shall originate, be kept, held or collected at business houses or places of business of every kind, and all building material resulting from the erection, removal, repair or tearing down of buildings; all waste material from printing offices, ashes from steam boilers, office buildings or hotels, manure from stables, swill or kitchen refuse and garbage from hotels, restaurants and boardinghouses, offal and floor sweepings from poultry houses and meat markets, dead animals, offal and floor sweepings from stockyards, livery feed and sale stables.

Property means every lot, piece or parcel of real estate lying within the city, either improved or unimproved.

Recycle container means a city approved plastic container for the purpose of temporarily storing qualifying recyclables for collection and processing.

Refuse means any general combustible refuse, all paper, rags, pasteboard boxes, berry boxes, wooden boxes, whole or broken bottles, and all other trash and refuse material not containing any vegetable or animal matter tending to rapid decay or putrefaction.

Secured plastic bag means a trash bag, storage bag, or other similar type bag used for storing nonyard debris garbage that is either tied, twisted or otherwise secured so that the garbage contained therein is not exposed to the elements or otherwise capable of spilling out.

Yard debris means all accumulations of grass or shrubbery cuttings, and other refuse attending the care of lawns, shrubbery, vines, trees and tree limbs.

(Code 1959, § 11-1; Ord. No. 2012-12, § 1, 1-7-13; Ord. No. 2016-06 , § 1, 6-6-16)

State law reference

Definitions, F.S. §§ 403.703, 403.7031.

Cross reference

Definitions and rules of construction generally, § 1-2.