(1) “Collector” or “collector of solid waste and/or recyclables” means the company(ies) with which the City has contracted to collect, haul, or dispose of solid waste, recyclables, and/or yard waste.

(2) “Commercial” means any establishment or business that is not residential in nature, including hotels/motels, churches, nonprofit organizations, Federal, State and local government-owned facilities.

(3) “Person” means every person, firm, partnership, association, institution, and corporation. The term shall also mean the occupant and/or the owner of the premises for which service mentioned in this chapter is rendered.

(4) “Solid waste” means all putrescible and nonputrescible solid and semisolid wastes including, but not limited to, garbage, rubbish, ashes, industrial wastes, swill, sewage sludge, demolition and construction wastes, abandoned vehicles or parts thereof, and recyclable materials. (RCW 70.95.030(22).)

(5) “Yard waste” means compostable organic materials resulting from landscape maintenance and pre- and post-consumer organic wastes including, but not limited to, leaves, brush, tree trimmings, grass clippings, weeds, shrubs, garden waste, and food scraps. Branches or roots must be smaller than four inches in diameter and shorter than four feet in length. Yard waste does not include stumps, demolition wood, large amounts of dirt, rocks, glass, plastics, metal, concrete, sheet rock, asphalt, or any other nonorganic land-clearing debris. (The collector may change the range of materials handled as yard waste upon the approval of the City to reflect those materials allowed by the Seattle-King County Health Department to be treated as such for the frequency of collection provided by the collector.) (Ord. 08-15 § 1; Ord. 04-13 § 1 (Exh. 1))