30-8-3. Refuse defined.
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Refuse means any article or substance:
A. which is commonly discarded as waste; or
B. which, if discarded on the ground, will create or contribute to an unsanitary, offensive or unsightly condition.
Refuse includes, but is not limited to, the following items or classes of items: waste food; waste paper and paper products; cans, bottles or other containers; junked household furnishings and equipment; junked parts or bodies of automobiles and other metallic junk or scrap; portions or carcasses of dead animals; and collections of ashes, dirt, yard trimmings or other rubbish.
History: 1953 Comp., § 40A-8-3, enacted by Laws 1963, ch. 303, § 8-3.