This article shall be known as the garbage regulations of the city.
(1986 Code, sec. 8.1)
The word “premises” as used in this article shall be taken to mean business houses, boarding houses, offices, theaters, hotels, restaurants, cafes, eating houses, liquor, wine and/or beer stores, tourist courts, trailer parks, hospitals, rooming houses, schools, churches, private residences, vacant lots and all other places within the city limits where garbage, trash or rubbish accumulates in ordinary quantities. The various kinds of garbage shall be defined as follows:
Dry kitchen refuse
means the solids after the liquid or slop has been drained off.
Kitchen garbage
means dry kitchen refuse, all meat, vegetable and fruit refuse, small dead animals and dead fowls, from any premises within the city limits.
Rubbish
means tin cans, bottles, glass, or scraps of iron, tin, wire, or any other metals from any premises within the city limits.
Trash
as used in this article means paper of all kinds, rags, old clothing, paper containers, old rubber, pieces of wood, boxes, barrels, crates, feathers, weeds, grass, and tree limbs, from any premises within the city limits.
(1986 Code, sec. 8.1)
The rates for garbage pickup service shall be as set forth in the franchise agreement currently in force between the city and the provider for such services.
(Ordinance adopting 2017 Code)
Every person, firm or corporation owning, managing, operating, leasing or renting any premises or any place where garbage, trash or rubbish accumulates shall be and is hereby required to pay amounts for collection at the same time each month as such person, firm or corporation is now required to pay his, her, their, or its water bill or account, and the charges accruing hereunder shall hereafter become a portion and a part of the water bill or account of such person, firm or corporation, and shall be billed by the city as a part of such water bill, and be subject to the same penalties for the failure to pay the water bill, as well as all other penalties provided for in such garbage regulations.
(1986 Code, sec. 8.16)
It shall be the duty of every person, firm or corporation owning, managing, operating, leasing or renting any premises, or any place where “kitchen garbage” accumulates, to provide a portable garbage can constructed of galvanized tin or other suitable material, with two handles and a tightfitting cover, of a capacity not less than ten gallons nor over forty gallons, or plastic garbage bags, and the daily accumulation of kitchen garbage and dry kitchen refuse shall be placed in this garbage can or bag. The container must not have inside structures, such as inside bands and reinforcing angles, or anything within the container to prevent the free discharge of the contents. Containers that have deteriorated, or that have been damaged to the extent of having jagged or sharp edges capable of causing injury to garbage collectors or other persons whose duty it is to handle the containers, or to such an extent that the covers will not fit securely, will be condemned by the city, acting through its department of sanitation, and if such containers are not replaced after notice to the owner or user of their defective condition, they shall be confiscated. It shall also be the duty of every person, firm or corporation owning, managing, operating, leasing or renting any premises to place all trash and rubbish, other than wet garbage, from said premises in boxes, sacks or barrels or other receptacles of reasonable size, provided that the gross weight does not exceed 100 pounds. Garbage cans, boxes, sacks or barrels of trash and rubbish and tree limbs (which shall be cut into lengths not exceeding four feet) shall be placed inside the property line at the end of the alley, where there is no fence; where there is a back fence with alley gate, garbage cans, boxes, sacks, or barrels of trash, rubbish and tree limbs (which shall be cut into lengths not exceeding four feet) shall be placed against the inside of the fence at the side of the alley gate. If there is no alley gate, there shall be built a platform against the inside of the fence below the top of the fence so that garbage-collecting vehicles can drive close up to the fence and lift the garbage, trash and rubbish over the fence; and where there is no alley, kitchen garbage, trash and rubbish shall be placed inside the curb line of the street to be collected by the city garbage vehicle.
(1986 Code, sec. 8.2)
The places of wholesale accumulations, such as killing and dressing plants for fowl, wholesale fruit and vegetable houses, storage and other places, where the daily accumulation of kitchen garbage, trash and rubbish is more than the ordinary quantities, are not included in the service furnished by the city garbage department, and such places are required to remove same to the city dump grounds at their own expense, in the manner and by the method directed by the official designated by the governing body of the city.
(1986 Code, sec. 8.3)
Heavy dead animals such as cows, horses, and mules shall be disposed of at the expense of the owner or person having same in charge in the manner and by the method directed by the designated official.
(1986 Code, sec. 8.4)
Heavy accumulations such as brick, broken concrete, lumber, ashes, clinkers, cinders, dirt and plaster, sand or gravel, automobile frames, dead trees, and other bulky, heavy material shall be disposed of at the expense of the owner or person controlling same under the direction of the designated official.
(1986 Code, sec. 8.5)
Manure from cowlots, horse stables, poultry yards, and pigeon lofts, and waste oils from garages or filling stations, shall be disposed of at the expense of the party responsible for same under the direction of the designated official.
(1986 Code, sec. 8.6)
The city garbage department will not make collection of kitchen garbage, trash or rubbish or tree limbs where same is not prepared for collection and placed as designated by the terms of this article, and failure to comply with this provision will be an offense and each day’s failure to comply will constitute a separate offense.
(1986 Code, sec. 8.7)
The meddling with garbage cans, trash or rubbish receptacles or in any way pilfering, scattering contents or junking in any alley or street within the city limits is prohibited.
(1986 Code, sec. 8.10)
Employees of and city officers directing operation of the city garbage department and persons delivering garbage or other rubbish to the city dump grounds are allowed on the dump grounds. All other persons are prohibited.
(1986 Code, sec. 8.11)
All junk and other material of the dump ground is the property of the city, and no person is allowed to separate and collect, carry off or dispose of same except under the direction of the designated official.
(1986 Code, sec. 8.12)
Wastes from building operations, rock, waste, scrap building materials or other trash resulting from construction or major remodeling, resulting from a general cleanup of vacant or improved property just prior to its occupancy, or resulting from sizeable amounts of trees, brush and debris cleared from property in preparation for construction will not be removed by the city as regular services, but may be done for the owner on payment of an extra charge. The owner, at his option, may have such debris removed at his expense by private haulers.
(1986 Code, sec. 8.14)
(a) 
Prohibition.
It shall hereafter be unlawful for any person to burn any trash, waste or rubbish within the corporate limits of the city in any street or alley or on any premises adjoining any building or on any vacant lot or parcel of land except as specified in subsection (b) of this section.
(b) 
Approval of burning.
The fire chief or fire marshal or their representatives may, upon request, inspect and approve the burning of trash or waste that is not adaptable to being hauled in the refuse truck. This approval must be obtained prior to burning in each instance.
(c) 
Burning leaves, tree limbs, etc.
This section shall not apply to the burning of leaves, tree limbs, grass or other materials from trees or shrubs. However, it shall be unlawful for such burning [to be done] on public rights-of-way and/or alleys within the city.
(1986 Code, secs. 8.30–8.32)