For the purposes of this chapter the following terms, phrases,
words, and their derivatives shall have the meaning given in this
section, unless it is apparent from the context of this chapter that
another meaning is intended:
means and includes kitchen and table refuse, leavings and
offal, and every accumulation of animal and vegetable and other matter
that attends the preparation, consumption, decay, or dealing in or
storage of meats, fish, fowl, birds, fruits and vegetables.
means and includes paper, rags, leaves, grass, vines, sawdust,
metal products, cans, ashes, packing material, shavings, boxes and
similar materials.
(Prior code § 11-101)
No person shall dump, place or bury in any lot, land or street
or in any alley, or in any water or waterway within the city, any
garbage, waste matter or other offensive substances.
(Prior code § 11-102)
No garbage shall be burned in the open air within the city.
No waste matter shall be burned upon any street, alley, park, waterway,
or public place within the city. No waste matter or rubbish which
shall, in burning, cause or create a dense or offensive smoke or odor
shall be burned in the open air upon any premises within the city.
(Prior code § 11-103)
A.
Every
owner, operator, manager or person in charge of any hotel, restaurant,
cafe, hospital, public dining room or other place where food is prepared
for sale or sold or offered for human consumption, and every owner,
operator, manager or person in charge of any food store or market
or place where meat, fish, fowl, vegetables, food or fruit is sold
or offered for sale for human consumption, shall provide one or more
galvanized water tight metal garbage receptacles with tight fitting
galvanized metal covers for receiving and holding all garbage created
upon the premises between the times of collection and removal or plastic
garbage receptacles with tight fitting lids or heavy duty plastic
garbage bags with tightly tied wire ties. Each receptacle must have
a capacity of not less than ten nor more than forty gallons.
B.
Every
tenant, lessee or occupant of any building where garbage is created
or accumulated shall provide upon such premises, at the nearest accessible
place for the collector, one or more galvanized metal garbage receptacles,
each of which shall have a capacity of not less than ten nor more
than forty gallons, with tight fitting galvanized metal covers for
receiving or holding all garbage created upon such premises between
the times of collection and removal or plastic garbage receptacles
with tight fitting lids or heavy duty plastic garbage bags with tightly
tied wire tires.
(Prior code § 11-104; Ord. 565 § 12, 1980)
All garbage, rubbish and waste matter receptacles shall be kept
in clean and sanitary condition by the owner or person using the same.
(Prior code § 11-105)
Garbage and waste matter may be collected or removed only by
employees of the city, acting in the regular course of such employment
and using equipment operated by the city for that purpose, or by contractors
or employees of contractors who are under contract with the city for
the collection and removal of garbage, and who are acting in the performance
of such contracts and using vehicles in which the transportation of
garbage is authorized by such contracts.
(Prior code § 11-106)
A.
All
garbage shall be collected, removed and disposed of in such a manner
as not to be needlessly offensive and filthy in relation to any person,
place, building, premises or highway.
B.
No person
shall use a vehicle for the conveyance of garbage, waste matter, manure,
filth, dead animals or any offensive or ill-smelling matter, unless
the vehicle is staunch, tight and closely covered with a wooden, metal
or canvas cover or equivalent cover, so as to wholly prevent the spilling,
leakage, falling off or blowing off of any of the contents of the
vehicle or escape of offensive odors therefrom. Such cart or vehicle
shall be kept clean, well-painted and in good repair.
(Prior code § 11-107)
All garbage and rubbish shall be collected and removed by the
collector:
A.
From
all places of business, not less than once each week except in cases
where a more frequent removal is required by other provisions of this
code because of the particular type of business involved.
B.
From
all other places, not less than once each week.
(Prior code § 11-108)
The director of public works of the city shall supervise the
collection, removal and disposal of garbage and rubbish in the city
and shall report to the city manager all violations of this chapter.
It shall be the duty of the city manager to see that the provisions
of this chapter are enforced.
(Prior code § 11-109)
The city council finds that the payment of the monthly charge
for collection and removal of garbage or rubbish by occupants of residential,
apartment and business property in the city is necessary in order
to protect the health and well-being of the residents of the city,
and nonpayment thereof when due is declared to constitute a misdemeanor.
(Prior code § 11-110)
A.
Nothing
in this chapter shall preclude the occupant of any residence or place
of business from personally removing his own rubbish to a public dump.
B.
Nothing
in this chapter shall preclude the occupant of any residence or a
place of business from permitting the removal of refuse by nonprofit
organizations utilizing such refuse for non-profit uses provided that
said collection of refuse is without charge.
(Prior code § 11-111; Ord. 550, 1979)
It is unlawful for any person to deposit anywhere in the city
any uncovered piles of refuse, garbage, offal or carcasses of dead
animals. Such refuse must be buried at least two feet below the surface
of the ground of burned in properly constructed incinerators or otherwise
properly disposed of. Any uncovered pile of refuse is declared to
be a nuisance.
(Prior code § 11-301)
