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 Fruitland Park
 Code of Ordinances
 Title IX. GENERAL REGULATIONS
 Chapter 97. PROPERTY MAINTENANCE

§ 97.01. Definitions.  

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  • For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.

    Accumulate. Synonymous with store, keep, hold, and retain. The term includes the retention or storage of one item, as well as the amassing of more than one item.

    Ashes. The residue from the burning [of] wood, coal, coke, or other combustible materials.

    Garbage. Putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking, and consumption of food.

    Junk. Scrap metal, or any dismantled, partially dismantled, nonoperative, or discarded, machinery, appliance, equipment, vehicle, or boat, or part thereof. Any vehicle which is required to be registered and licensed in order to be operated or driven on the roads of the state, and which does not have a current certificate of registration and current license tag shall be irrebuttably presumed to be junk. Any item of tangible personal property, designed to be used in an environment which is protected from the elements, such as the interior of a building, shall be irrebuttably presumed to be junk if the item is stored outside. Further, any vehicle in inoperable condition shall be irrebuttably presumed to be junk. For the purposes of this chapter, inoperable condition shall mean a condition of disrepair which renders the vehicle inoperable in a normal manner, or in the manner for which the vehicle was designed, for a period of time exceeding 72 hours.

    Junkyard. An establishment or place of business which is operated or maintained for the purpose of storing, buying, or selling junk.

    Refuse. All putrescible and nonputrescible solid wastes (except body wastes), including, but not limited to, garbage, rubbish, ashes, street cleanings, dead animals, abandoned automobiles, junk, and solid market and industrial wastes.

    Rubbish. Nonputrescible solid wastes (excluding ashes), consisting of both combustible and noncombustible wastes, such as paper, cardboard, tin cans, yard trash, wood, glass, bedding, crockery, and similar materials.

    Yard trash. Vegetative matter resulting from landscaping maintenance or land clearing operations and includes materials such as tree and shrub trimmings, grass clippings, palm fronds, trees, and tree stumps.

(Ord. 90-019, passed 7-26-90; Am. Ord. 94-002, passed 4-14-94)