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Cross References — Animals and fowl, ch. 205; garbage and trash, ch. 240; building codes, ch. 500; property maintenance code, ch. 500, art. vi; manufactured homes, ch. 400, art. iv; abandoned motor vehicles, §385.360 et seq; planning and zoning, ch. 405; plumbing code, §500.090 et seq.; sewers, ch. 705; utilities, ch. 700; zoning, ch. 400; as to vegetation and growth on streets and sidewalks, see ch. 525, art. I.
[CC 1976 §17-11; Ord. No. 1503 §1, 12-1-1987]
The following terms, phrases, words and their derivations shall
have the meaning given herein unless their use in the text clearly
demonstrates a different meaning.
Includes any private or public property upon which repairs
to existing buildings, construction of new buildings or demolition
of existing structures is taking place.
Includes any element, whether created by nature or created
by man, which with reasonable foreseeability could carry litter from
one (1) place to another. Elements shall include, but not be limited
to, air current, rain, water current and animals.
Includes any uncontainerized man-made or man used waste,
which if deposited within the City otherwise than in a litter receptacle,
tends to create a danger to public health, safety and welfare or to
impair the environment of the people of the City. Litter may include
but is not limited to any garbage, trash, refuse, confetti, debris,
grass clippings, or other lawn or garden waste, newspaper, magazine,
glass, metal, plastic or paper container, or other construction material,
motor vehicle parts, furniture, oil, carcass of a dead animal or nauseous
or offensive matter of any kind or any object likely to injure any
person or create a traffic hazard.
Includes any container which is designed to receive litter and to prevent the escape of litter deposited therein which is of such size or sufficient capacity to hold all litter generated between collection periods and which is in compliance with the regulations issued pursuant to Section 225.130 (A).
Includes any private or public property with provisions for
parking vehicles to which the public is invited or which the public
is permitted to use or which is visible from any public place or private
premises.
Includes a public or private park, reservation, playground,
beach, recreation center or any public or private area devoted to
active or passive recreation or any other area under the supervision
of the Department of Parks and Recreation or under the Department
of Public Works.
Includes any dwelling, house, building or other structure
designed to be used, either wholly or in part, for private residential
purposes, whether inhabited or temporarily or continuously uninhabited,
or vacant, and shall include any yard, grounds, walk, driveway, porch,
steps, vestibule, mailbox or other structure belonging or appurtenant
to such dwelling, house, building or other structure.
Includes any and all streets boulevards, avenues, lanes,
alleys or other public ways and parks, squares, plazas, grounds and
buildings frequented by the general public, whether publicly or privately
owned.
[CC 1976 §17-12; Ord. No. 1503 §2, 12-1-1987]
Regulations promulgated in this Chapter shall be enforced by
the Building Commissioner, Public Works Director and the Chief of
Police.
[CC 1976 §17-13; Ord. No. 1503 §3, 12-1-1987]
A.
It
shall be unlawful for any person to transport in any vehicle or by
any other means or manner any loose material or articles likely to
sift, fall, spill or be blown about on any public street, alley, or
other public way in the City.
B.
In
case any of the contents of such vehicle shall become blown or scattered
upon any public street, alley or other public way or place in the
City, the person in charge thereof shall immediately gather up or
cause to be gathered up any such blown or scattered material. Failure
to so do shall constitute a violation of this Section.
[CC 1976 §17-14; Ord. No. 1503 §4, 12-1-1987]
Every owner or occupant or lessee of a house or building used
for residence, business or commercial purpose shall maintain litter
collection and storage areas in a clean condition and insure that
all litter is properly containerized. Failure to so maintain a clean
litter collection and storage area shall constitute a violation of
this Section.
[CC 1976 §17-15; Ord. No. 1503 §5, 12-1-1987]
All litter that is subject to movement by the elements shall
be secured by the owner of the premises where it is found before the
same is allowed to be removed by the elements to adjoining premises.
[CC 1976 §17-16; Ord. No. 1503 §6, 12-1-1987]
It shall be the duty of any person owning or controlling a house
or other building or premises, including vacant lots, visible from
any public place or private premises, to maintain such premises in
a reasonably clean and orderly manner and to a standard conforming
to other orderly premises in that vicinity. It shall be a violation
of this Section to abandon, neglect or disregard the condition or
appearance of any premises so as to permit it to accumulate litter
thereon.
[CC 1976 §17-17; Ord. No. 1503 §7, 12-1-1987]
The owner or person in control of any public place including
but not limited to restaurants, shopping centers, fast food outlets,
stores, hotels, motels, industrial establishments, office buildings,
apartment buildings, housing projects, gas stations, hospitals and
clinics, shall at all times keep the premises clean of all litter
and shall take measures, including daily cleanup of the premises,
to prevent litter from being carried by the elements to adjoining
premises. It shall be a violation of this Section to abandon, neglect
or disregard the conditions or appearance of such premises so as to
permit it to accumulate litter thereon.
[CC 1976 §17-18; Ord. No. 1503 §8, 12-1-1987]
The person owning, operating or in control of a loading or unloading
dock shall at all times maintain the dock area free of litter in such
a manner that litter will be prevented from being carried by the elements
to adjoining premises.
[CC 1976 §17-19; Ord. No. 1503 §9, 12-1-1987]
The property owners and the prime contractors, as well as any
subcontracts in charge of any construction site, shall maintain the
construction site in such a manner that litter will be prevented from
being carried by the elements to adjoining premises. All litter from
construction activities or any related activities shall be picked
up at the end of each workday and placed in containers which will
prevent litter from being carried by the elements to adjoining premises.
Each contractor shall be responsible to remove any litter or other
debris, including dirt and mud deposited as a result of a normal construction
process, upon any public place or private premises.
[CC 1976 §17-20; Ord. No. 1503 §10, 12-1-1987]
Every owner, occupant, tenant or lessee using or occupying any
public place shall provide adequate litter receptacles of sizes, numbers
and types as required to contain all litter generated by those persons
frequenting that public place and as specified by the Director of
Public Works or Building Commissioner for all such public places.
[CC 1976 §17-21; Ord. No. 1503 §11, 12-1-1987]
Any parking lot shall be equipped with litter receptacles in
compliance with this Section and the regulations issued hereto.
[CC 1976 §17-22; Ord. No. 1503 §12, 12-1-1987]
The owner or person in control of private premises shall maintain
litter receptacles for collection of litter as necessary or as required
by regulations made pursuant hereto and in such a manner that litter
will be prevented from being carried by the elements to adjoining
premises.
[CC 1976 §17-23; Ord. No. 1503 §§13 — 14, 12-1-1987]
A.
Litter
receptacles shall not be less than twenty (20) gallons in nominal
capacity and shall be leakproof, waterproof and fitted with a fly-tight
lid and shall be properly covered at all times, except when depositing
litter therein or removing the contents thereof.
B.
All
litter shall be removed periodically from litter receptacles as necessary
to maintain their usefulness.
[CC 1976 §17-24; Ord. No. 1503 §15, 12-1-1987]
Persons placing litter in litter receptacles shall do so in
such a manner as to prevent litter from being carried from the receptacles
by the elements.
[CC 1976 §17-25; Ord. No. 1503 §16, 12-1-1987]
No person shall cause the removal, upsetting, mutilation, defacing
or tampering with litter receptacles or cause the contents thereof
to be spilled or to be strewn in or upon any public place or private
premises.
[CC 1976 §17-26; Ord. No. 1503, §17, 12-1-1987]
Litter receptacles shall not be placed in any location where
they may obstruct vehicular traffic or unreasonably obstruct pedestrian
traffic.
[CC 1976 §17-27; Ord. No. 1503 §18, 12-1-1987]
Litter receptacles located on publicly owned property shall
be conspicuously identified and shall be free of commercial advertising.
[CC 1976 §17-28; Ord. No. 1503 §19, 12-1-1987]
The Board of Aldermen may, if they deem it advisable, in the
Central Business District or in such other area cause to be placed
in convenient places litter receptacles to be serviced either by contract
or by direct operation by the City. The Board of Aldermen may also
cooperate with any merchant's association or civic group by permitting
the placing by the merchant's association or civic group of litter
receptacles in the same or in any other area of the City.
[CC 1976 §17-29; Ord. No. 1503 §20, 12-1-1987]
No Section of this Article and no regulation made pursuant hereto
in furtherance of the purposes and provisions of this Article shall
be construed to regulate the containers used in the collection of
refuse, waste or garbage which containers are regulated by other City
ordinances.
[CC 1976 §17-30; Ord. No. 1503 §21, 12-1-1987]
No person shall deposit any litter within the City except in
public receptacles or in authorized private receptacles for collection.
