To protect public health, safety and well-being and to control the spread of vectors, no person shall keep solid waste in Containers or Commercial Bins other than those approved by a Solid Waste Collector, nor shall any person accumulate solid waste, except for Construction and Demolition Waste, for more than 13 consecutive days; nor shall any person keep upon any premises in the City any solid waste which is offensive, obnoxious or unsanitary. All of the foregoing is unlawful, constitutes a public nuisance and may be abated in the manner now or hereafter provided by law for the abatement of nuisances.
(Added by Ord. 1020, adopted 5-28-96)
To protect public health, safety and well-being, and to control the spread of vectors, no person, other than a person authorized by the person in charge of the premises or a Solid Waste Collector authorized by the City or the person in charge of the premises, shall remove any Container from a location where a Container has been placed for storage or collection, or remove any solid waste from any Container or move the Container from the location in which it was placed for storage or collection, or apply any paint or markings (commonly know as "graffiti" or "tagging") to any Container without the prior written approval of the owner of the Container.
(Added by Ord. 1020,adopted 5-28-96)
To protect public health, safety and well-being and to minimize interference with the public rights-of-way, no person shall place Bulky Goods adjacent to a street or public right-of-way without first having made arrangements with a Solid Waste Collector for the pick-up of the Bulky Goods.
(Added by Ord. 1020, adopted 5-28-96)
To protect public health, safety and well-being , no person shall burn any solid waste within the City, except in an approved incinerator or transformation facility or other device for which a permit has been issued by the Building Official and which complies with all applicable permits and other regulations of air pollution control authorities and provided any such act of burning in all respects complies with all other laws, rules and regulations. No person shall bury solid waste at any place within the City.
(Added by Ord. 1020, adopted 5-28-96)
To protect public health, safety and well-being, no person except for a Self-Hauler or gardener shall collect any solid waste from any Commercial Premises or Residential Premises within the City, nor shall any person place a Commercial Bin or any Construction Bin, at any premises within the City, without a City-issued written Franchise or written Solid Waste Collector's Permit. Each day any person other than a Self-Hauler or gardener shall collect any solid waste from any Commercial Premises or Residential Premises within the City, or place a Commercial Bin or Construction Bin for the accumulation of solid waste at any premises within the City, or permit or suffer a Commercial Bin to remain in place within the City, without a City Solid Waste Collector's Permit shall constitute a separate offense.
(Added by Ord. 1020, adopted 5-28-96)
To protect public health, safety and well-being and to prevent the spread of vectors, it is unlawful and a public nuisance for any person to occupy, inhabit, maintain, or to be in day-to-day control of any premises within the City for which arrangements have not been made for regular collection and removal services for solid wastes, including Recyclable Solid Wastes or Green Waste, and any other violation of this chapter is unlawful and may be enjoined as a nuisance, in addition to all other remedies.
(Added by Ord. 1020, adopted 5-28-96)
To protect public health, safety and well-being and to prevent contamination of solid waste and Recyclable Solid Wastes, no person shall place solid waste in, or otherwise use, the solid waste or Recyclable Solid Waste or Green Waste Containers of another, without the permission of such other person.
(Added by Ord. 1020, adopted 5-28-96)
No person shall dump, deposit, release, spill, leak, pump, pour, emit, empty, discharge, inject, bury or dispose into the environment (including by abandonment or discarding of barrels, containers and other closed receptacles of solid or liquid waste of any kind whatsoever) any solid or liquid waste upon, in or under any premises within the City, or to cause, suffer, or permit any solid or liquid waste to come to be located upon, in or under any premises in the City, except in an authorized or permitted solid waste Container or at an authorized or permitted solid waste facility.
(Added by Ord. 1020, adopted 5-28-96)
Pursuant to California Penal Code Section 836.5, the City Manager and City Code Enforcement Officers are authorized to enforce the provisions of this chapter and as well as those of California Penal Code, Sections 374, 374a, 374.2, 374.3, 374.4, 374d, 374.7 and 375; California Government Code, Sections 68055, et seq.; and California Vehicle Code, Sections 23111 and 23112.
(Added by Ord. 1020, adopted 5-28-96)
The City Manager or the City Manager's designee(s) shall have the authority to enforce the provisions of this chapter. This authority shall be in addition to the authority granted to police officers pursuant to the Municipal Code.
(Added by Ord. 1020, adopted 5-28-96)
Wherever in this chapter enforcement authority is given to any City employee or officer, such authority may be exercised by designees of those officers and employees.
(Added by Ord. 1020, adopted 5-28-96)
Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, violations of this chapter are punishable as set out in Section 1200 of this Code.
(Added by Ord. 1020, adopted 5-28-96)
Violation of any provision of this chapter shall be a misdemeanor.
(Added by Ord. 1020, adopted 5-28-96)
Nothing to this chapter shall be deemed to limit the right of any solid waste enterprise to bring a civil action against any person who violates California Public Resources Code, Sections 41950-51, or to seek injunctive relief from unlicensed solid waste enterprises which collect or attempt to collect solid waste in violation of any permit requirement or exclusive Franchise, nor shall a conviction for such violation exempt any person from a civil action brought by solid waste enterprise.
(Added by Ord. 1020, adopted 5-28-96)
Subscribers to a solid waste collection service may order: special collections of such things as Bulky Goods, Brown Goods, White Goods, Holiday Trees and other items too large to fit in standard Containers; and pick-up of household hazardous wastes (from service providers authorized by the State of California to collect household hazardous wastes), subject to the payment of rates set by the City Council, if the City Council has set such rates.
(Added by Ord. 1020, adopted 5-28-96)
(a) 
To protect public health, safety and well-being, any truck used for the collection or transportation of solid waste within the City shall be leak proof and equipped with a close-fitting cover which shall be affixed in a manner that will prevent spilling, dropping or blowing of any waste upon the public right-of-way during collection or transportation.
(b) 
Each Solid Waste Collector shall maintain its Commercial Bins and Construction Bins within the City in a manner to protect public health and safety and prevent the spread of vectors.
(c) 
Each Solid Waste Collector shall maintain its Commercial Bins and Construction Bins in the City of Downey free from exterior paint or markings commonly referred to as "graffiti" or "tagging." Each day a Solid Waste Collector permits a Commercial Bin or any Construction Bin to remain in this City with conspicuous "graffiti" or "tagging" shall be a separate offense.
(d) 
No person shall place any Commercial Bin or any Construction Bin in this City, or maintain or collect solid waste from any Commercial Bin or any Construction Bin in this City without conspicuous warnings on the exterior of the Commercial or Construction Bin that the Commercial Bin or Construction Bin is not to be used for the disposal of any hazardous substances or Hazardous Waste. Each day a Commercial Bin or a Construction Bin remains in this City without conspicuous warnings on the exterior of the Commercial Bin or Construction Bin that the Commercial Bin or Construction Bin is not to be used for the disposal of any hazardous substances or Hazardous Waste shall be a separate offense.
(e) 
No person shall park, or cause to be parked within the City any vehicle containing solid waste unless the vehicle is free from odor and in a sanitary condition.
(Added by Ord. 1020, adopted 5-28-96)
To protect the public health, safety and quiet enjoyment of the residents of the City, the noise level for the collection vehicles during the stationary compaction process shall not exceed 75 dB(A) at a distance of 25 feet) from the collection vehicle and at an elevation of five feet from the horizontal base place of such vehicles.
(Added by Ord. 1020, adopted 5-28-96)
(a) 
Until solid waste has been picked up by a Solid Waste Collector, the owner, operator, occupant, or other person in charge of the day-to-day operation of each premises in the City shall be responsible for the cleanup of any and all solid waste generated, deposited, released, spilled, leaked, pumped, poured, emitted, emptied, discharged, injected, dumped or disposed into the environment, or which otherwise has come to be located outside an authorized Container on, at, or in the premises of which the person is the owner, operator, occupant or is otherwise in charge. This cleanup responsibility includes the cleanup of solid waste, including Recyclable Solid Wastes and Green Waste, which has come to be located outside an authorized Container for the collection of such solid waste notwithstanding human or animal interference with Commercial Bins or Containers, wind or other natural forces and whether during storage, collection, removal, or transfer. For purposes of this section, the term "disposed into the environment" shall include, but is not limited to, the abandonment of or discarding of barrels, containers and other closed receptacles of solid or liquid waste of any kind whatsoever.
(b) 
To protect public health, safety and well-being, each person collecting or transporting solid waste, Recyclable Solid Wastes or Green Waste within the City shall clean up immediately, or arrange for the immediate cleanup, of any solid waste released, spilled or dumped into the environment by such person during collection, removal or transport within the City.
(Added by Ord. 1020, adopted 5-28-96)