§ 36-97. Definitions.

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

Commercial means all premises from which garbage, refuse and trash are collected except those defined as residential and shall include specifically, but not be limited to, businesses of all types, multiunit dwellings, mobile home parks, apartments, townhouses and condominiums. Whether used as a noun, adjective or adverb, the term "commercial" refers to a business enterprise or activity wherein gross revenue is derived from services. Whenever the director of public works, the city administrator, or his designate, has designated a business enterprise activity as commercial, such designation shall be presumed correct hereunder, and if disputed, the burden shall be upon the owner or duly authorized agent to disapprove it, by sworn, audited records of such business enterprise or activity. An activity or enterprise shall also be deemed commercial, whenever the garbage, trash and rubbish collection policies under this chapter require use of sanitation container units.

Sanitation container unit means a metal box or container, fixed with a lid and equipped for handling by city sanitation vehicles, owned by the city and furnished to a commercial customer for sanitary use at fees to be prescribed by resolution of the city council and placed on file with the city secretary's office.

(Code 1978, § 9-52; Code 1993, § 62-71)