§ 14-54. Definitions.

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

Court means the mayor's court of the village.

Dispose means, in any way whatsoever, to throw, discard, place, deposit, discharge, burn, dump, drop, eject, or allow the escape of a substance.

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

Litter.

(1)

The term "litter" means all waste material except as provided and defined in R.S. 30:2173(2), including but not limited to disposable packages, containers, sand, gravel, rubbish, cans, bottles, refuse, garbage, trash, debris, dead animals, furniture or appliances, automotive parts, including but not limited to tires and engines, trailers, boats and boating accessories, tools and equipment, and building materials, or other discarded materials of any kind and description.

(2)

The term "litter" does not include:

a.

Agricultural products that are being transported from the harvest or collection site to a processing or market site if reasonable measures are taken to prevent the agricultural product from leaving the transporting vehicle. The term "agricultural product" as used in this definition, means all crops, livestock, poultry, and forestry; and all aquacultural, floracultural, horticultural, silvicultural, and viticultural products.

b.

Recyclable cardboard being transported in compressed bundles to processing facilities.

Local governing authority means the governing authority of the village.

Public or private property means the right-of-way of any road or highway, levee, any body of water or watercourse or the shores or beaches thereof, any park, playground, building, refuge, or conservation or recreation area, and residential or farm properties, timberlands, or forests.

Refuse means all putrescible and nonputrescible solid waste, other than body waste, including garbage, rubbish, ashes, street cleanings, dead animals, abandoned motor vehicles and solid market and industrial wastes.

Rubbish means nonputrescible solid waste consisting of both combustible and noncombustible waste such as paper, wrappings, cigarettes, cardboard, tin cans, yard clippings, leaves, wood, glass, bedding, crockery, plastic, and similar materials.

(Code 2004, § 23.2)

State law reference

Definitions, R.S. 30:2522.