§ 6:375. Definitions.(City)

The following words and phrases, when used in this part, shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them:

Central Business District is the urban area that has a diversity of uses not typically found in other areas of the parish, including retail, governmental, office, cultural, recreational, entertainment, and residential uses, whose boundaries are the Mississippi River on the west, North Boulevard on the south, North Street on the north and Interstate 110 on the east.

Collector is any person who has obtained a license and/or permit pursuant to this chapter.

Commercial establishment is any person who is engaged in any type or kind of trade or business (whether such business is for profit or is charitable or public in nature), except that this definition shall not include any public or parochial schools or individual residence, whether under lease or not, or apartments. Business schools will not be included within the term "public or parochial schools."

Director of the department of public works or director is the director of the department of public works of the city-parish.

Garbage shall mean and include putrescible animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and serving of food, including tin cans, broken or plastic bottles, glassware, which may be used in a household or restaurant.

Neutral ground shall mean that area between the property line and the curb or ditch, as the case may be.

Occupant shall mean any person who lives in, resides in, conducts or operates a business in, or uses any buildings, house, structure or grounds.

Owner shall mean and include the record owner or owners of any buildings, house, structure or grounds.

Refuse control board shall consist of the director of public works, treasurer, chief of police, director of the health unit, and city prosecutor.

Trash shall mean and include nonputrescible solid waste such as wastepaper, debris, tin cans, aluminum cans, bottles, glassware, ordure, excrement, cartons, boxes, etc., not included under the definitions of "garbage," and shall also include cut grass, weeds, vines, shrubbery trimmings, and trees or limbs, provided that industrial wastes, building debris from erection or repairing of any buildings, dead fowls and animals and scrap metal shall not be included.

Should a contract or contracts be entered into between the city and parish with a private contractor for the collection and disposal of garbage, trash, bulky waste and litter, the definitions of all items alluded to in that contract shall take precedence over the definitions set out above.

(City Code 1951, Title 6, § 401; Ord. No. 8074, § 1, 12-11-85; Ord. No. 8572, § 1, 12-9-87); Ord. No. 16912, § 1, 10-24-18)