§ 7-2001 — DEFINITIONS

Sec. 7-2001. - DEFINITIONS.

As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them, respectively: (a) Ashes. Refuse resulting from the burning of wood, coal, coke, and other combustible material. (b) Building rubbish. Rubbish from construction, remodeling, and repair operations on houses, commercial buildings, and other structures, including but not limited to stones, brick, plaster, lumber, concrete, and waste parts occasioned by installations and replacements. (c) Combustible refuse. Refuse, capable of incineration or burning, such as garbage, paper, rags, boxes, and wood. (d) Contamination. The presence of unacceptable or prohibited materials in a garbage, recycling, or yard waste receptacle that impedes proper disposal or causes reusable materials to be landfilled. (e) Garbage. Animal and vegetable refuse resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking, and consumption of food, including a minimum amount of liquid necessary incident thereto. (f) Industrial waste. Waste from factories, processing plants, and other manufacturing enterprises. (g) Loose leaves. Unsecured Leaves placed curbside for collection by the City of Raleigh Transportation Department's seasonal leaf collection program. (h) Noncombustible refuse. Refuse not capable of incineration or burning, such as ashes, tin cans, metals, mineral matter, crockery, and glass. (i) Nuisance. Any condition that is dangerous, hazardous, detrimental, or can have a negative impact on public health, public safety, quality of life, or general welfare of the City. (j) Person. Individual, firm, partnership, association, institution, corporation, municipalities and other political subdivisions, and governmental agencies. (k) Refuse. Solid waste, including but not limited to garbage, rubbish, ashes, and yard waste. (l) Regulations. Regulations of the City Manager of the City, now or hereafter in effect, promulgated under this chapter or other authority. (m) Rubbish. Refuse (exclusive of garbage and ashes) including but not limited to paper, rags, cartons, boxes, wood, excelsior, tires, rubber, leather, tin cans, metals, mineral matter, glass, crockery, and dust, except for dust incidental to excavated earth. (n) Sharps. Needles, syringes with attached needles, capillary tubes, slides, and cover slips. (o) Waste. Useless, unused, unwanted, or discarded materials resulting from natural community activities, including solids, liquids, and gases. Clean excavated earth shall not be considered waste material for the purpose of this part. (p) White goods. Residential appliances limited to washing machines, clothes dryers, stoves, ranges, ovens, refrigerators, freezers, dishwashers, and water heaters. (q) Yard waste. Vegetative trimmings from flowers, house plants, yards, or other landscaped areas, consisting only of leaves, grass clippings, plants, small brush, hedge clippings, small limbs, and dry seed pods, but excluding flocked trees, noxious weeds, and toxic plants.

(Code 1959, §19-22; Ord. No. 1983-98, §1, 4-19-83; Ord. No. 1985-639A, §§1—5, 9-17-85; Ord. No. 1995-760-TC-122, §12, TC-20C-95, 11-21-95; Ord. No. 1998-361, §§1—6, 6-11-98; Ord. No. 1998-454, §9, 11-4-98; Ord. No. 2022-398, § 2, 7-5-22; Ord. No. (2024) 598, § 2, 2-6-24)