The following words and phrases, when used in this title, shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section:
A. “Employee” means any person engaged in the operation or conduct of any business, including any member of the owner’s family, agent, manager, solicitor, partner, co-owner and any other person employed or working in such business.
B. “Engaged in business” means the conducting, managing or carrying on in the city of any business, profession, trade, calling, occupation or commercial enterprise on which the city has legal right to impose a license and collect a fee.
C. “Nonresidential rental units” means and includes all building structures of any kind, rented or leased to tenants using the premises for other than dwelling purposes.
D. “Patrolman” includes any person, firm or corporation carrying on the business of night watch service, security guard, private policeman, police patrol service or any other occupation the purpose of which is to afford police or fire protection within the city to the public for hire or reward.
E. “Residential rental units” includes any structure, the principal function of which is to provide guestrooms, shelter or space at a fixed rental for the accommodation of the public. This includes hotels, motels, apartments, roominghouses, auto courts, trailer courts, houses and duplexes, as described on the property tax rolls of the county.
F. “Vending machine” includes any machine vending merchandise, wares, edibles, liquids or other products, which machine is operated by inserting coins therein.
G. “Wheeled vehicle” means and includes an automobile, motorcycle, truck, tank truck, trailer, wagon, cart and any and all other contrivances, except pedal powered bicycles, used or capable of being used as a means of transportation that move or roll on one or more wheels.
H. “Small collection facility” means any facility which occupies an area of not more than five hundred square feet, and may include: a mobile recycling unit, reverse vending machines, bulk reverse vending machines, kiosk-type units if they include permanent structures; and unattended containers placed for the donation of recyclable materials.
I. “Reverse vending machine” means a device that accepts one or more types of empty beverage containers and issues a cash refund or redeemable coupon. Some reverse vending machines will also dispense promotional materials.
J. “Bulk reverse vending machine” is a reverse vending machine that accepts several containers at once and usually pays by weight. Typically a bulk reverse vending machine is substantially larger than a reverse vending machine.
K. “Kiosk-type unit” means a small collection facility located within one of the primary tenants at the host site location. All kiosk-type units must be operated inside of a primary tenant at the host site location. A kiosk-type unit that does not contain permanent structures and is smaller than eight square feet is not considered a small collection facility for purposes of this chapter.
L. “Solid waste collector’s gross receipts” include any and all revenue, receipts, or compensation in any form received by a solid waste collector for collection, transportation and other solid waste services provided within the city, in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). Sources of solid waste collector’s gross receipts include, but are not limited to, service, disposal, processing, container delivery, taxes, and local government surcharges. (Ord. 998-07 § 1; Ord. 921-02 § 2; Ord. 831-97 § 6 (part); Ord. 685-91 § 2)