As used in this article, the following terms have the respective meanings ascribed to them:
Garbage.
All decayable wastes, including vegetable, animal and fish offal and carcasses of such animals and fish (except sewage and body wastes, and industrial byproducts), and including all such substances from all public and private establishments and from all residences.
Junk.
All worn-out, worthless and discarded material in general, including, but not limited to, odds and ends, old iron or other metal, glass, paper, cordage or other waste or discarded materials.
Litter.
Any quantity of uncontainerized paper, metal, plastic, glass or miscellaneous solid waste which may be classed as rubbish, refuse, garbage or unsolicited and unsubscribed advertising in accordance with the definitions set forth in this section.
Private property.
Includes, but is not limited to, the following exterior locations owned by private individuals, firms, corporations, institutions or organizations: yards, grounds, driveways, entranceways, passageways, parking areas, working areas, storage areas, vacant lots and recreation facilities.
Public property.
Includes, but is not limited to, the following exterior locations: streets, street medians, roads, road medians, catchbasins, sidewalks, strips between streets and sidewalks, lanes, alleys, public rights-of-way, public parking lots, school grounds, vacant lots, parks, beaches, playgrounds, other publicly owned recreation facilities, and municipal waterways and bodies of water.
Refuse.
Garbage, rubbish and all other decayable and nondecayable waste, including vegetable, animal and fish carcasses, except sewage, from all public and private establishments and residences.
Rubbish.
All nondecayable wastes, except ashes, from all public and private establishments and from all residences.
Solid waste.
Rubbish, refuse, garbage, junk or unsolicited and unsubscribed advertising generated from both residential and commercial establishments.
Unsolicited and unsubscribed advertising.
In general, but not limited to, all forms of unsolicited and unsubscribed circulars, newspapers, placards, cards and samples which serve as advertising or announcements.
(2004 Code, sec. 6.02.001)
Editor’s note–Former section 6.02.002 pertaining to penalties and deriving from the 2004 Code, sec. 6.02.010; was deleted in its entirety by Ordinance 1266, sec. 2, adopted 4/22/19.
It shall be unlawful for any person to dump, deposit, leave or allow the dumping, depositing or leaving of any refuse, garbage, rubbish, junk or unsolicited or unsubscribed advertising on any street, right-of-way, alley or public lands within the city. Upon finding the refuse, garbage, rubbish, junk or unsolicited or unsubscribed advertising upon any street, right-of-way, alley or public lands within the city, said refuse, garbage, rubbish, junk or unsolicited or unsubscribed advertising will be collected by the city’s public works department and transported to an authorized solid waste facility, and the adjoining property owner(s) to the location of [where] said refuse, garbage, rubbish, junk or unsolicited or unsubscribed advertising was collected will be billed accordingly for the cost associated with said items’ removal. In the event the property owner fails to reimburse the city for costs incurred with the removal of said items, the city is authorized to file a labor lien against the property to recover expenses associated with the removal of the refuse, garbage, rubbish, junk or unsolicited or unsubscribed advertising, including the cost of collection of said debt to the city.
(2004 Code, sec. 6.02.002)
It shall be unlawful for any person to dump, deposit or leave any refuse, garbage, rubbish, junk or unsolicited and unsubscribed advertising within or nearer than three hundred (300) yards of any public street or highway within the city, whether or not the refuse, garbage, rubbish, junk or unsolicited and unsubscribed advertising being dumped, deposited, or left, or the land upon which refuse, garbage, rubbish, junk or unsolicited and unsubscribed advertising is dumped, deposited or left, belongs to the person so dumping, depositing or leaving it.
(2004 Code, sec. 6.02.003(a))
It shall be unlawful for any person to dump, deposit, or leave any abandoned refrigerator, deep freeze or other appliance in which a person could become entrapped on the premises, without removal of door handles or other closure paraphernalia that might make the appliance dangerous to the life of a child, should one become entrapped in the appliance. In the event the owner cannot be contacted immediately, the police department will have the power to secure the appliance immediately.
(2004 Code, sec. 6.02.003(b))
In the event of any threatened or probable violation of any provision of section 6.02.003, 6.02.004 or 6.02.005, it shall be the duty of the city attorney to bring suit for injunction to prevent such threatened or probable violation. Any person affected or to be affected by any such threatened or probable violation shall have the right to enjoin such violation or threatened violation. The enforcement of the remedy hereinabove provided by injunction shall not prevent the enforcement of the other penalties provided in this code.
(2004 Code, sec. 6.02.005)
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation, institution or organization to transport any loose cargo by truck or other motor vehicle within the corporate limits of the city unless said cargo is covered and secured in such manner as to prevent depositing of litter on public and private property.
(2004 Code, sec. 6.02.006)
(a) 
Any owner or occupant of an establishment or institution at which litter is attendant to the packing and unpacking and unloading or loading of materials at exterior locations shall provide suitable containers there for the disposal and storage of such litter and shall make appropriate arrangements for the collection thereof.
(b) 
Further, it shall be the duty of the owner or occupant to remove at the end of each working day any litter that has not been containerized at these locations.
(2004 Code, sec. 6.02.007)
(a) 
It shall be unlawful for the owner, agent or contractor in charge of any construction or demolition site to cause, maintain, permit or allow to be caused, maintained or permitted the accumulation of any litter on the site before, during or after completion of the construction or demolition project.
(b) 
It shall be the duty of the owner, agent or contractor to have on the site adequate containers for the disposal of litter and to make appropriate arrangements for the collection thereof for transport by himself to an authorized facility for final disposition.
(c) 
The owner, agent or contractor may be required at any time to show proof of appropriate collection, or, if transported by himself, of disposition at an authorized facility.
(2004 Code, sec. 6.02.008)
It shall be unlawful to sweep or push litter from sidewalks and strips into streets. Sidewalk and strip sweepings must be picked up and put into household or commercial solid waste containers.
(2004 Code, sec. 6.02.009(a))
(a) 
It shall be the duty of every nonresident owner of a vacant lot or other vacant property to appoint, in writing, to the city, a resident agent who shall have responsibility for keeping that lot or other property free of litter.
(b) 
If, after due warning, citation or summons, an owner, agent, occupant or lessee fails to remove litter from any private property, the city is authorized to serve written notice to the owner or his appointed agent that, if the condition is not corrected within ten (10) days, the property will be cleaned by the city and the owner or his appointed agent billed for the cost thereof. If the bill is not paid within thirty (30) days, execution may be issued by the city against the property for the amount of the cleaning charge, and such execution shall constitute a lien on the property until the claim has been satisfied.
(2004 Code, sec. 6.02.009(b), (c))