Sec. 382.102. - Definitions.

As used in this Chapter: (a) Annual rate of compensation means the amount of money for each residential premises to be paid by the City to a contractor for waste collection and disposal services to be rendered by the contractor to the residential premises. (b) Reserved. (c) Contractor means a person applying for a contract to provide or providing waste collection and disposal services to the City as described in this Chapter. (d) Curbside means the area within five feet of the edge of the traveled portion of a public or private street affording reasonable access to waste collection vehicles, but only the portion thereof as lies on the roadway side of a drainage ditch. (e) Department means the Solid Waste Division. (f) Duplex, triplex, or quadraplex means a lot or parcel of land which is improved for occupancy by two, three or four housekeeping units, respectively. (g) Garbage means every accumulation of animal, vegetable or other matter that attends the preparation, consumption, decay, dealing in or storage or meats, fish, fowl, birds, fruit or vegetables or any other putrescible matter, including animal feces, and also including cans, containers or wrappers along with the materials. (h) Measure of contract compensation means the maximum amount of money to be paid annually by the City to a contractor for rendering waste collection and disposal service to a specified service area. (i) Multifamily residential premises means a building or complex or buildings on a single parcel of land divided horizontally or vertically and designed for or occupied by more than four housekeeping units. (j) Premises means every lot or parcel of land which is improved for occupancy, excluding residential premises and multifamily residential premises. (k) Residential condominium means that form of ownership of real property created pursuant to F.S. Ch. 718 which is comprised of units that may be owned by one or more persons, and in which there is, appurtenant to each unit, an undivided share in common elements in which units are intended for use as a permanent residence and in which the owner or owners of such residential condominium claim a homestead exemption in reference to such residential condominium. (l) Residential premises means every lot or parcel of land which is improved for occupancy as a single-family housekeeping unit, or a duplex, or a triplex, or a quadraplex. (m) Residential waste means an accumulation of garbage, trash and rubbish usual to housekeeping and generated solely by residents in the ordinary course of residential occupancy of a premises, excluding automobile bodies and parts. It shall also include that waste collected from multifamily residential customers and commercial establishments, both as specified in Section 382.402 . (n) Rubbish means every accumulation of paper, excelsior, rags, wooden and paper boxes or containers, sweepings and all other accumulations of materials, other than garbage, which are usual to household keeping and to the operation of stores, offices and other business places, and also bottles, cans or containers. (o) Solid waste or waste means garbage, trash and rubbish, or any combination thereof. (p) Special service means an additional convenience or service to the customer which increases the cost of service and is not a service required to be provided pursuant to this Chapter. (q) Yard trash means vegetative matter resulting from landscaping maintenance or land clearing operations and includes materials such as shrub trimmings, grass clippings, palm fronds, trees and tree stumps. (r) Garbage receptacle means one of the following types of containers: (1) A container of not more than 32 gallons nor less than twelve-quart capacity which is: (i) Free from jagged and sharp edges, (ii) Free from inside structures, such as inside bands or reinforcing angles, which would prevent free discharge of the contents. (iii) Watertight and of impervious material, and (iv) Provided with a tight-fitting cover to protect the contents from flies, insects, rats and other animals. (2) A wet-strength Kraft paper bag of not more than four cubic feet capacity having such characteristics, markings and method of securing as are prescribed by regulation of the Department. (3) A plastic bag having an inside circumference of at least 40 inches and not more than 60 and one-half inches and an inside length of at least 22 inches and not more than 37½ inches, and having such characteristics, markings and method of securing as are prescribed by regulation of the Department. (s) Volume reduction means incinerating, pulverizing, compacting, shredding, baling, composting and other means which process solid waste for recycling or disposal. (t) Equivalent residential unit means each separate dwelling unit in a multifamily residential premises, each separate business unit in a multibusiness building, each separate mobile home in a mobile home park and each separate small commercial premises, described in Section 382.402 (a). (u) Multibusiness building means a building or complex or buildings on a single parcel of land divided horizontally or vertically and designed for or occupied by more than one business unit. (Ord. 76-728-373, § 7; Ord. 81-673-324, § 1; Ord. 83-591-400, § 1; Ord. 87-656-609, § 1; Ord. 89-1168-679, § 12; Ord. 91-989-385, § 2; Ord. 91-1067-476, § 1; Ord. 94-144-121, § 13; Ord. 2012-545-E, § 1; Ord. 2025-30-E , § 16) Note— Former § 617.102.