No garbage shall be removed or carried on or along any street or any alley of the city, except in water-tight containers with proper coverage so that the garbage shall not be offensive. Every such container shall be kept clean and the garbage shall be so loaded that none of it shall fall, drip or spill to or on the ground, sidewalk or pavement.
(Prior code § 8-27; Ord. 551-79, 6-26-1979)
No garbage or rubbish shall be removed and carried on and along the streets and alleys of the city, except in conveyances so constructed and arranged as not to permit dust or other matter to sift through or fall upon the streets and alleys or drift or blow into the air. The contents of such conveyances must be further protected with appropriate covers so as to prevent the same from being blown on the streets, alleys and adjacent lands.
(Prior code § 8-28; Ord. 551-79, 6-26-1979)
(1) 
Contract Authorized Maximum Period. The city may enter into a contract for the collection and disposal of garbage and rubbish for a period not to exceed 10 years in accordance with, and under the terms and conditions that are consistent with, the provisions of this chapter.
(2) 
Scope of Contract. Such contract shall provide that the contractor shall collect and dispose of the garbage and rubbish in the city in the manner as in this chapter provided.
(3) 
Fee Limitation. The contract shall provide that the contractor shall not charge any amounts in excess of the rates to be agreed upon between the contractor and the city, and set by a resolution passed and adopted by the city council of the city at the time of the making of the contract or as thereafter modified.
(4) 
Bond. The contractor shall be required to furnish a cash or surety bond to the city in the sum of $10,000 conditioned upon the faithful performance of the contract and the provisions of this chapter.
(5) 
Worker's Compensation Required. Such contract shall also require that the contractor procure, for the period covered by the proposed contract, full compensation insurance with an "industrial carrier" as defined by and in accordance with the provisions of Division 4 (Section 3200 et seq.) of the California Labor Code, entitled Workmen's Compensation and Insurance.
(6) 
Liability Insurance. Such contract shall also require that the contractor carry public liability insurance in the minimum amount of $100,000 for loss from an accident resulting in bodily injury to or death of one person; $500,000 for the death or injury of more than one person; and property damage insurance to the extent of $25,000 upon each of the trucks or other vehicles used by contractor in carrying out the work called for in the contract; such insurance to cover both the city and the contractor. The contractor shall deliver a certificate of each such policy to the employer.
(Prior code § 8-29; Ord. 551-79, 6-26-1979)
(1) 
It shall be unlawful for any person, for a charge or fee, other than the city or such contractor as may be designated by the city under contract therefor, to collect, dispose of, transport, carry or convey through the streets, alleys, or public ways of the city, any garbage, or to collect or dispose of same.
(2) 
Nothing in this chapter shall be deemed to prohibit the removal and hauling by an unlicensed person of materials considered by the health officer or police to constitute a health menace of such nature as necessary to be ordered by either of such officers to be promptly removed.
(Prior code § 8-30; Ord. 551-79, 6-26-1979)
It shall be unlawful for any person in any manner to interfere with the collection or disposal of garbage or rubbish by any person authorized by license or contract to collect and dispose of same.
(Prior code § 8-31; Ord. 551-79, 6-26-1979)
(1) 
It shall be unlawful for any unauthorized individual(s) to open or damage any garbage, refuse or recycling bin or can container or to inspect, collect, interfere with, disturb or scatter any refuse, including, but not limited to, written documents or recyclable refuse stored in such bin or can container, while awaiting collection on the public right-of-way.
(2) 
Nothing in this section shall prohibit the collection of recycling materials from containers located on public lands.
(3) 
Any violation of those actions described in subsection (1) of this section shall be a misdemeanor.
(Prior code § 8-32; Ord. 677-07, 10-9-2007)