[Ord. No. 371, § 1.]
No person in an aircraft shall throw out, drop or deposit within
the city any litter, handbill or any other object.
For the purposes of this section, "aircraft" is any contrivance
now known or hereafter invented, used or designated for navigation
or for flight in the air. The word "aircraft" shall include helicopters
and lighter-than-air dirigibles and balloons.
[Ord. No. 244, §§ 1
to 4; Ord. No. 363, § 1; Ord. No. 590, § 1; Ord. No. 602, § 2; Ord.
No. 630, § 1.]
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to burn trash or any other materials
in any street, alley, vacant lot or premises within the city. The
term "trash" shall be construed as meaning combustibles of every nature
and kind.
(b) This section shall not prevent agricultural burning done under applicable
state and local statutes and ordinances after the issuance of an agricultural
burning permit, nor combustion for the preparation of human foods
or heating of buildings and structures.
(c) This section shall not prevent burning done by an officer of the
city fire department, or under permit issued by the fire chief, in
the following circumstances:
(1) For the purpose of prevention of a fire hazard which cannot be abated
by other means.
(2) For instruction of public employees or members of the city volunteer
fire department in the methods of fighting fire.
(3) The burning of combustibles pursuant to permit on property used for
industrial purposes for the purpose of instruction in methods of fire
suppression and utilization of fire fighting equipment.
[Ord. No. 244, § 6.]
It shall be unlawful for any person to keep, accumulate or permit
to be kept or accumulated any oily rags or oily waste, except when
in actual use, in any building or enclosure unless the same are kept
in a metal receptacle or can fitted with a self closing lid or cover,
the receptacle being of durable material.
[Ord. No. 244, §§ 5,
7.]
It shall be unlawful for any person to permit the accumulation
of trash to become or remain offensive, unsightly or unsafe to public
health or hazardous from fire.
It shall be unlawful for any person to permit the accumulation
of trash to remain for more than forty-eight hours in any alley, or
premises in Fire Zone One.
[Ord. No. 245, §§ 2
to 4; Ord. No. 631, § 1; Ord. No. 644, § 1.]
No person shall deposit or cause to be deposited on any vacant
lot, street, alley or sidewalk any paper, rubbish, garbage or obstructions,
except that paper, garbage, trash and/or rubbish may be deposited
on a sidewalk next to the curb line or in an alleyway after 5: 00
p.m. of a day immediately prior to the day scheduled for collection.
No person shall cause any container used for disposal of garbage,
trash or refuse to remain on a sidewalk or in, an alleyway after 6:
00 p.m. of the regular collection day.
Except for the times indicated herein, no container used for
disposal of garbage, trash, or refuse or any uncontainerized trash
or rubbish shall be allowed to remain closer to the curb line than
the building setback line and shall be screened from view from the
sidewalk, street, or adjacent properties.
The term "obstruction" as used in this section, shall be understood
and construed to refer to any object which impedes or interferes with
pedestrian or vehicular traffic on sidewalks, streets or alleys.
Notwithstanding provisions of this section to the contrary,
the city council may, upon written application therefor, grant permission
to the applicant to place objects in the nature of obstructions on
sidewalks, when such objects are not detrimental, unsightly or dangerous
and will provide a service to the public generally.