(a) For purposes of this section:
(1) "Junk" includes old or scrap copper, brass, rope, rags, batteries, paper, rubber, lumber pipe, used building materials, roofing; old or scrap iron steel or other ferrous or nonferrous materials which are not held for sale for remelting purposes by an establishment having facilities for processing such materials; and inoperable and unlicensed, dismantled, partly dismantled or wrecked vehicles or motor vehicles, or parts thereof.
(2) "Garbage" includes all putrescible wastes except wastes of the human body and other water-carried wastes; all vegetable and animal wastes resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking or consumption of foods; any containers that have contained food or liquids for consumption by humans or other beings.
(3) "Refuse" includes ashes, crockery, bottles, cans, paper and other wood pulp products, boxes, rags, grass clippings and other cut vegetation; old or discarded clothing, bedding, mattresses, furniture, appliances; rubbish, dirt, nails, pieces of glass, oil; and all other similar nonputrescible wastes.
No person shall place, throw, deposit, permit to be deposited or sweep into or upon any property which he owns, occupies or otherwise has charge of, or into or upon any street, sidewalk, alley, park, public ground or public building, or into or upon any property of another any junk, garbage, refuse, offal, animal carcass or any similar matter of an unsightly or unsanitary nature, except as is otherwise provided or permitted by law.
(b) Individuals desiring to bring about implementation of the above section shall present in person or in writing, any complaints hereof to the office of the Director of Law or other City office as may be designated for such purpose.
(c) Whoever violates any provision of this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor upon the first offense and is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree upon any subsequent violations of this section. A separate offense shall be deemed committed each day during or on which a violation occurs or continues.
(Ord. 24-77. Passed 4-5-77.)