(A) Use of containers. 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 collector; nor shall any person accumulate solid 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.
(B) Removal of solid waste. To protect public health, safety and well-being, and to control the spread of vectors, no person, other than the person in charge of day-to-day activities at any premises or a collector authorized by the person in charge of the premises, shall remove any container or commercial bin from the location where the container was placed for storage or collection by the person in charge of day-to-day activities at the premises, or remove any solid waste from any container or commercial bin, or move the container or commercial bin from the location in which it was placed for storage or collection, or apply any paint or markings (commonly known as "graffiti" or "tagging") to any solid waste container or commercial bin without the prior written approval of the owner of the container or commercial bin.
(C) Bulky goods. To protect public health, safety and well-being and to minimize interference with 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 collector for the pickup of the bulky goods.
(D) Civic litter container; institutional, commercial, or industrial solid waste prohibited. To protect public health, safety and well-being, no person shall place or deposit institutional, commercial, industrial, special, or hazardous waste in any civic litter container.
(E) Solid waste burning prohibited. 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 permit 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.
(F) Collection of solid waste without license prohibited. 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 for the accumulation of solid waste at any premises within the city, without a city business license and a collector's license or operate a collection vehicle within the city without displaying a current city-issued collector's decal, as provided by § 6.16.110. 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 for the accumulation of solid waste at any premises within the city, or permit or suffer a commercial bin to remain in any place within the city, without a city business license and a collector's license or operate a collection vehicle within the city without displaying a current city-issued collector's decal shall constitute a separate offense.
(G) Public nuisance. 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.
(H) Unauthorized disposal prohibited. To protect public health, safety and well-being and to prevent the contamination of solid waste, including recyclable solid wastes and green waste, no person shall place solid waste in, or to otherwise use the solid waste or recyclable solid waste or green waste containers of another, without the permission of such other person.
(I) Unauthorized removal of recyclable solid wastes prohibited by state law. The unauthorized removal of recyclable solid wastes and recyclable materials placed at designated recycling collection locations is prohibited by California Public Resources Code §§ 41950-51.
(J) Solid waste spills and releases prohibited. To protect public health, safety and well-being, no person transporting solid waste, including recyclable solid wastes or green waste within the city shall fail to immediately clean up, or arrange for the immediate cleanup, of any solid waste released, spilled or dumped into the environment during removal or transport within the city by such person.
(K) Unlawful dumping prohibited. 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 any premises within the city, or to cause, suffer, or permit any solid or liquid waste to come to be located upon any premises in the city, except in an authorized or permitted solid waste container or at an authorized or permitted solid waste facility.
(Ord. 4321, passed 6-9-97; Am. Ord. 4325, passed 6-23-97) Penalty, see § 6.16.280