This article shall be known as the garbage regulations of the
city. 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:
The solids after the liquid or slop has been drained off.
Dry kitchen refuse, all meat, vegetable and fruit refuse,
small dead animals and dead fowls, from any premises with the city
limits.
Tin cans, bottles, glass, scraps of iron, tin, wire, or any
other metals from any premises within the city limits.
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.
(1984 Code, sec. 8.1)
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
five gallons nor over thirty 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 can, 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.
(1984 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.
(1984 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.
(1984 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.
(1984 Code, sec. 8.5)
Manure from cow lots, 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.
(1984 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.
(1984 Code, sec. 8.7)
The placing of kitchen garbage, trash or rubbish or any article,
thing or material in any street or alley within the city limits is
prohibited.
(1984 Code, sec. 8.8)
The disposal of kitchen garbage, trash or rubbish and that designated under sections 12.04.004, 12.04.005, and 12.04.006 of this article or any kind of rubbish in any place within the city limits, except at the city dump grounds, is prohibited.
(1984 Code, sec. 8.9)
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.
(1984 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.
(1984 Code, sec. 8.11)
All junk and other material of the dump grounds 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.
(1984 Code, sec. 8.12)
The collection of garbage, trash and rubbish or of any kind of junk within the city limits is prohibited except as provided for in sections 12.04.003, 12.04.004, 12.04.005, and 12.04.006 of this article.
(1984 Code, sec. 8.13)
Wastes from building operations, or 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.
(1984 Code, sec. 8.14)
Every person, firm or corporation owning, managing, operating,
leasing or renting any premises or any place where garbage, trash
or rubbish accumulates is hereby required to pay amounts for collection
at the same time each month as such person, firm or corporation is
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 said city as a part of such water bill, as
well as all other penalties provided for in such garbage regulations.
(1984 Code, sec. 8.16)
(a)
General prohibition.
It shall 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 by fire chief or fire marshal.
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)
Exceptions.
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.
(1984 Code, secs. 8.30–8.32)
(a)
The use of the existing sanitary landfill shall be restricted to
residents of the city who pay a monthly garbage fee and who are disposing
solid refuse generated with the city limits.
(b)
It is hereby declared to be unlawful for any person who is not a resident of the city to use the existing landfill for disposal of any item, except where such nonresident has received the advance written permission of the city council. Any violation of this section constitutes a misdemeanor punishable by a fine in accordance with the general penalty provided in section 1.01.009 of this code.
(1984 Code, sec. 8.40; Ordinance
106 adopted –/–/84; Ordinance 108 adopted 8/22/84; Ordinance adopting 2023 Code)
(a)
Garbage.
Refuse.
The following definitions apply to this section:
All waste material and refuse generated from households and
commercial establishments, including but not limited to animal and
vegetable matter, paper products, boxes, food and beverage containers,
including tin cans, bottles, jars, rags and other cloth or fibrous
material.
Waste material including but not limited to trees, limbs,
wood products, grass clippings, yard cleanings, tree trimmings, lumber,
siding, shingles, and pieces of metal, including but not limited to
iron, tin, steel, wire products and other metals.
(b)
No person in the city may dispose of garbage or refuse without having
first paid a garbage collection or landfill user’s fee. The
mayor is authorized to collect all fees for garbage collection and
landfill operations as established from time to time by the city council.
(c)
A person commits an offense if he, without paying the fee established
by the city council, places or deposits garbage or refuse in front
of another person’s residence who has paid for a collection
service or deposits garbage or refuse in a commercial dumpster located
at a location within the city, or disposes of garbage or refuse at
the city sanitary landfill without having paid for collection service
or any sanitary landfill user’s fee established by the city
council.
(d)
A person commits an offense if he disposes of any garbage or refuse
within the corporate city limits in any manner other than placing
the garbage on the street for collection, in a commercial dumpster
or at the city sanitary landfill, after having paid the fee required
for such service.
(Ordinance 141 adopted 12/4/89; Ordinance adopting 2023 Code)
