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[Amended 9-17-1996, effective 9-18-1996] A. Any commercial user wherein food items are sold for off-premises consumption shall place a receptacle immediately outside the premises for the use of patrons to discard said food items or their wrappings therein. B. Said receptacle shall be secured to eliminate improper removal from the site. Said receptacle shall be visible and accessible to the public and shall be maintained in a clean and sanitary state. Said receptacle shall be covered in such a fashion so as to eliminate the possibility of divergence by wind or soaking by rain or snow or accessibility to animals. C. Said receptacle shall not be allowed to overflow or in any way become a health hazard or nuisance and shall be emptied in an approved fashi...

[Derived from Sec. 126 of Ch. XXV of the Charter and Ordinances, 1974]

[Amended 3-31-1992, effective 4-13-1992; 9-17-1996, effective 9-18-1996] A. It shall be the duty of each person to strain and securely wrap in paper or plastic all garbage set out for public collection by the city. The Commissioner is hereby authorized to decline to collect any garbage not so wrapped. B. Loose disposal of syringes, lancets and needles is hereby prohibited. Syringes, lancets and needles are hereby deemed to be regulated medical waste, which the City shall not collect, and such regulated medical waste must be collected by a licensed regulated substance collector or medical facility with appropriate collection facilities for such regulated medical waste. Syringes, lancets and needles must be disposed of in a sealed and clearly marked cont...

[1] Editor's Note: Former § 216-7, Applicability, was repealed 9-17-1996, effective 9-18-1996.

[Amended 9-17-1996, effective 9-18-1996] Garbage shall not be kept or stored upon any real property or premises by any person except in pestproof receptacles with tight covers. Such receptacles shall be kept tightly covered at all times except when deposits are being made therein and during the time that garbage therefrom is being collected from the real property or premises.

[Derived from Secs. 106 through 108 of Ch. XXV of the Charter and Ordinances, 1974]

[Amended 6-25-1996, effective 6-27-1996; 9-17-1996, effective 9-18-1996] A. No person shall place, deposit, leave, litter, throw, cast or dump or cause to be placed, deposited, left, littered, thrown, cast or dumped or permit any servant, agent, employee or other person under his control to place, deposit, leave, litter, throw, cast or dump any waste of any kind on any street, sidewalk or right-of-way (including the curbline), public park, public place or any real property or premises within the City of Buffalo without the lawful consent of the owner or lawful consent of the occupant in possession thereof; provided, however, that nothing in this section shall authorize or permit any action that would be otherwise prohibited, but for such consent, by any...

[Amended 6-28-1994, effective 7-15-1994; 9-17-1996, effective 9-18-1996; 6-10-2003, effective 6-23-2003; 5-28-2019, effective 5-28-2019] A reward of $1,100 is hereby offered to the person or persons who furnish information leading to the apprehension, arrest and conviction of anyone found guilty of illegal dumping within the City of Buffalo as set out in this chapter. Such reward shall not apply to any employee, agent or servant of the City of Buffalo who acquires such information during the discharge of his official duties. All claims for such reward must be made to the City of Buffalo within 90 days after the conviction of any such person or persons.

[Amended 5-21-1993, effective 5-28-1993; 5-28-2019, effective 5-28-2019] Any person convicted of illegal dumping within the City of Buffalo shall be subject to a fine of $2,200 as prescribed in Chapter 137, Article I, of this Code.

[Amended 9-17-1996, effective 9-18-1996] The owner or occupant of real property or premises within the City of Buffalo shall, upon the direction of the Health Commissioner, cause the collection of any of the substances mentioned in § 216-9 which shall have been thrown, placed or deposited upon the owner's or occupant's real property or premises.

[Amended 9-17-1996, effective 9-18-1996] A. Every owner or occupant of real property or premises within the City of Buffalo shall keep such real property and premises thereon, of whatsoever kind, free and clear of any kind of filth or dirty water or unwholesome matter and of all the substances specified in Article I of this chapter and § 216-9 of this article. B. Every owner or occupant of real property or premises in the City of Buffalo keeping horses, cows or other quadrupeds within the limits of said City shall remove from the real property or premises all manure accumulating thereon as often as required by the Health Commissioner. C. Every owner or occupant of real property or premises on or in which horses, cows or other quadrupeds are kept and e...

[Derived from Secs. 26 through 28 of Ch. IV of the Charter and Ordinances, 1974]

[Amended 3-21-1995, effective 4-3-1995; 9-17-1996, effective 9-18-1996; 5-22-2001, effective 6-4-2001; 6-14-2005, effective 6-24-2005] A. No person shall deposit or leave or cause or allow any agents, subordinates, occupants or employees to deposit or leave in any public street, curbline or public place any solid waste, unless the same is in proper receptacles, no earlier than 7:00 p.m. on the evening prior to the day of the regular collection as provided. All City-issued receptacles shall be removed from the street, curbline or public place following public collection and shall not be left in the street, curbline or public place after 8:00 p.m. on the day of regular collection. All garbage receptacles shall be kept in rear yards, or side yards if store...

[Amended 9-18-1990, effective 9-27-1990; 7-23-1991,[1] effective 9-3-1991; 10-29-1991, effective 1-1-1991; 3-31-1992, effective 4-13-1992; 10-26-1996, effective 1-8-1996; 9-17-1996, effective 9-18-1996] A. The Commissioner shall designate days for the removal of solid waste from the several streets of the city, and on those days it shall be lawful for any person to place at the curbline in front of the premises occupied by him all solid waste collected from the lot owned or occupied by him in receptacles or plastic bags properly closed with a twist tie or string. The Commissioner is authorized to adopt rules and regulations for receptacles to provide for uniform types of receptacles. All owners shall assure that occupants comply with this requirement. ...

No person shall buy or receive any solid waste from any person unauthorized to collect or receive solid waste, and no such person shall sell or dispose of any solid waste except with the consent and in the manner prescribed by the Commissioner of Public Works. Any scavenging, rummaging into or picking discarded articles or material out of solid waste by persons other than owner or occupant, authorized City employees or City contractors is hereby prohibited, and if the person so offending shall be a holder of a junk dealer's license, such offense shall be sufficient cause for the revocation of that license in addition to any fine or other penalty for any violation hereof.

[Derived from Sec. 29 of Ch. IV of the Charter and Ordinances, 1974]

No person shall dispose of inert fill or waste except at a landfill licensed pursuant to this chapter and Chapter 263, Licenses, of this Code.

No landfill shall be hereafter established within or directly adjacent to a residential area, within or directly adjacent to any marsh or wetland area or within the floodways as indicated on the current National Flood Program Boundary and Rate Maps.

[1] Editor's Note: Former § 216-19, License required, was repealed 9-17-1996, effective 9-18-1996.

[1] Editor's Note: Former § 216-20, Application procedure, was repealed 9-17-1996, effective 9-18-1996.