Any owner, tenant, housekeeper, management company, operator, corporation or other person or entity or contractor occupying or operating or performing work at any dwelling house or commercial property, or portion thereof, in the City, shall dispose for collection any construction or demolition materials from any structure in the City. All such disposal must utilize a roll off container pursuit to Section 107-10, and shall be contracted for removal on a private basis. No construction or demolition material shall be disposed of at the curb or sidewalk. No construction or demolition material shall be piled loosely outside of a container in the City.
No person shall engage in the act of collecting or removing
siding, drainage gutters, copper materials, aluminum, piping or any
other refuse from a residential or commercial building whether unoccupied
or occupied without the expressed written consent of the owner and
a permit obtained from the Department of Public Works.
Violators of this section shall be liable for fines up to two
thousand dollars based on property type. Residential properties are
properties that have one to two family homes. Commercial properties
are any properties that have three or more family dwellings and commercial
space. Residential properties shall receive a warning for their first
offense. For a second offense, they shall be fined two hundred and
fifty dollars ($250). For a third offense, they shall be fined five
hundred dollars ($500). For a fourth offense, they shall be fined
one thousand dollars ($1,000.) Commercial properties will be fined
a thousand dollars for their first offense. A second offense fine
shall be two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) or imprisonment
for a period not to exceed six (6) months. The two thousand five hundred
dollar ($2,500.) fine may be assessed on a continuing per day basis
for each of the violations continued.
