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Ordinance No. 2019 Page 7 (9) Amend Chapter 9.20 Garbage as follows: 9.20.010 Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following words shall have the meanings given in this section: A. "Commercial unit" means any occupied premises specifically utilized for the purpose of engaging in commercial activity as defined in Chapter 18.44 of this code. B. "Industrial unit" means any occupied premises specifically utilized for the purpose of engaging in industrial activity as defined in Chapter 18.48 of this code. C. "Recyclable waste material" means discarded materials such as, but not limited to, newspapers, mixed paper, cardboard, glass, plastics, metal cans, and metals which are separated from other garbage or refuse for the purpose of recycling. D. "Recycling" means the process of collecting and turning used products into new products by reprocessing or remanufacturing them. E. "Refuse" means all putrescible and nonputrescible, combustible and noncombustible solid wastes, including, but not limited to, animal and vegetable waste resulting from the preparation, cooking and consumption of food, garbage, rubbish, ashes, street cleaning, dead animals, solid market and industrial waste paper wrappings, cigarettes, cardboard, tin cans, yard clippings, leaves, wood, glass, bedding, crockery and similar materials. F. "Residential unit" means any occupied premises having bathroom or toilet, and kitchen plumbing facilities, suitable for residential occupancy by a number of persons living together as a single-family, including single-family dwellings, and each group of occupied rooms constituting living quarters for a single family in any duplex, triplex, apartment, court or other multiple dwelling structure, by excluding any living or sleeping quarters in hotels, apartments, rooming houses, motels or auto courts where kitchen facilities are not provided. (2) Add a new Section 9.20.085 as follows: 9.20.085 Ownership of recyclable material and illegal removal. A. Upon the placement of recyclable materials in a designated recycling collection location for collection by the refuse collector, or in a public or private trash can, the recyclable material shall become the property of the refuse collector. B. No person, other than the person who generated such recyclable material or the refuse collector, shall remove recyclable material which has been placed in a designated recycling collection location, or in a public or private trash can. Any and each such removal in violation hereof from any designated recycling collection location, public trash can or private trash can shall constitute a separate and distinct offense.