[Approved 10-17-1967 by Ch. No. 1135 as Secs. 15-4 through 15-7 of the 1966 Code]
[Amended 11-1-1991 by Ch. No. 2231]
A. 
No person shall place or deposit or cause or permit to be placed or deposited upon any premises anywhere within the City any decomposing or decomposable animal, vegetable or other organic debris or any other offensive matter or substance of any sort, unless such materials are judged by the Supervisor of the Environmental Control Division to be part of a backyard composting pile of materials such as leaves, weeds, grass clippings, hedge trimmings, sawdust, fireplace and wood ashes, vacuum cleaner lint, eggshells, coffee grounds and tea leaves, hair and peanut shells, not including meat, dairy products or fats, oils and grease.
[Amended 6-21-2001 by Ch. No. 2611]
B. 
Every owner, lessee or occupant of such land or persons having general charge of the same or any other person hereafter placing or depositing or causing or permitting to be placed or deposited any such matter or substance, as aforesaid, shall, if the Supervisor of the Environmental Control Division shall so request in writing, remove such matter or substance from such land within three days after receiving such request.
C. 
Every day in excess of three days that any person shall suffer or permit any such matter or substance to remain upon such land after receipt of such request from the Supervisor of the Environmental Control Division shall be deemed and regarded as a separate offense under this section.
[Amended 11-8-1984 by Ch. No. 1908]
A. 
The owner of any premises where swill or garbage shall accumulate shall provide a covered, rodentproof, insectproof, watertight receptacle on such premises for such swill or garbage, and shall deposit or cause to be deposited all such swill or garbage in such receptacle.
B. 
Such owner or occupant shall not locate such receptacle in any place which is not satisfactory to the Supervisor of the Environmental Control Division, his or her agent or designee. Said receptacle shall be screened by fencing or shrubbery if visible from the street.
C. 
No person shall deposit any garbage in any place other than such a garbage receptacle as is herein prescribed, and no person shall deposit any dishwater or liquid refuse, bottles, broken glass or crockery or any other refuse other than garbage in any garbage receptacle.
D. 
No person, unless appointed and licensed so to do by the City Council, shall remove, carry or transport any swill or house offal from any house, market, building or premises upon or through any street or highway in the city. All swill and house offal shall be removed in or from the City in watertight, closely covered vehicles.
[Amended 11-8-1984 by Ch. No. 1908]
A. 
Every dwelling shall have adequate rubbish storage and disposal facilities or containers approved as to type and location by the Supervisor of the Environmental Control Division, his or her agent or designee.
B. 
Every owner of a dwelling shall supply on the premises such rubbish disposal facilities and storage containers for each dwelling therein as are required by law and shall maintain such facilities in good repair and sanitary condition and shall provide for the proper collection and removal of the contents thereof.
[Amended 3-12-2026 by Ch. No. 3326]
Every occupant of a dwelling or dwelling unit shall dispose of all rubbish and garbage in a clean and sanitary manner by placing it in the facilities provided by the owner, agent, or resident of such dwelling or dwelling unit.