The word “premises” as used in this article shall be taken to mean business houses, boarding houses, offices, hotels, cafes, eating houses, motels, apartments, hospitals, schools, private residences, and other business or structure within the City of Sundown, Texas, and vacant lots and all other places within the city limits of the City of Sundown where garbage, trash, rubbish or brush accumulate in ordinary quantities.
(1986 Municipal Code, Title 9, Chapter 2, Section 9-2-1)
Garbage.
Is defined as rubbish, kitchen and household waste, ashes, paper, food containers, small hedge trimmings and leaves.
Trash.
As used in this article is defined to mean paper of all kinds, rags, old clothes, paper containers, and pieces of boxes, wire, etc.
Rubbish.
As used in this article is defined to mean tin cans, bottles, glass, scraps of iron (small), tin or other metals from any premises within the city limits.
Brush.
Is defined as tree trimmings, large weeds, large hedge trimmings, and trees not to exceed eight inches in diameter, and cut in lengths not to exceed four feet and tied in bundles for collection.
(1986 Municipal Code, Title 9, Chapter 2, Section 9-2-2)
(a) 
The City of Sundown shall provide metal containers of sufficient size and number in the residential and commercial districts for the deposit of garbage, trash, rubbish and brush as hereinabove defined. These containers shall be fitted with a tight-fitting lid or cover, which shall remain closed on the container at all times, except when garbage, trash, rubbish or brush is being deposited or collected.
(b) 
All garbage, trash, rubbish and brush shall be deposited in the containers except as herein provided. A sufficient number of containers will be supplied at those businesses where large numbers of cardboard boxes are disposed of. All cardboard boxes shall be broken down and flattened out before being deposited in the container.
(c) 
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to place in the containers any roofing or building materials, dirt, rocks or heavy items, heavy metals, engine blocks or auto parts, dead animals, and burning or smouldering materials.
(d) 
It shall be unlawful for any person to park any vehicle or object whatsoever in a manner such that it interferes with the movement of the garbage truck or the emptying of the detachable container. Upon notification, the police department shall remove or cause the removal of such vehicle or object at the owner’s expense. Proof of ownership shall be prima facie evidence that such owner parked such vehicle so as to violate this section.
(e) 
It shall be the responsibility of the owner, operator or occupant of any premises, store, factory or business for the disposal of all trees above eight inches in diameter and which might be cut in lengths of more than four feet in length, automobile bodies, abandoned automobiles, tires, industrial waste, etc. Arrangements for this special service may be made with the City of Sundown Garbage Department if personnel and equipment are available for such services. Charges for such special service shall be on a cost basis.
(f) 
It shall be the responsibility of the owner or occupant of any premises to properly dispose of any dirt, grass, trash, etc., resulting from yard work or lot leveling contracted for or performed by said owner or occupant.
(g) 
It shall be unlawful for any person to meddle or tamper with any garbage, trash, rubbish or brush, or to in any manner pilfer with such receptacles or with such garbage, trash, rubbish or brush, or to scatter the contents thereof in any street, alley, sidewalk or premises in the City.
(1986 Municipal Code, Title 9, Chapter 2, Section 9-2-3)
It shall be the duty of every person, firm or corporation owning, operating, managing, leasing or renting any premises or any place where garbage, trash, rubbish or brush accumulates, to deposit in said garbage and refuse container the garbage, trash, rubbish or brush accumulated at said premises.
(1986 Municipal Code, Title 9, Chapter 2, Section 9-2-4)
Rock, waste, scrap building materials, or other trash resulting from the construction or remodeling of premises, shall not be placed in such receptacles. The owner and/or contractor shall be responsible for removing any of the aforementioned items from the premises where they accumulate.
(1986 Municipal Code, Title 9, Chapter 2, Section 9-2-6)
(a) 
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or other entity, without the written permission of the city, to place garbage, trash, rubbish or brush in a municipal dumpster, including all park collection containers, if the garbage, trash, rubbish or brush does not originate from the usage of the park by the public or from a current customer of the city’s garbage service.
(b) 
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or other entity to place garbage, trash, rubbish or brush into a residential or commercial garbage container not belonging to or under the control of such person, firm, corporation or other entity without the written consent of the owner of the container or the person, firm, corporation or other entity legally entitled to the use and possession of such container. In the case of a commercial establishment operated by a firm, corporation or other entity, such permission shall be granted in writing only by an officer or employee of the firm, corporation or other entity over the age of eighteen (18) years.
(Ordinance 538 adopted 7/12/16)