(a) Each owner, occupant, tenant or lessee owning and/or occupying any residence, building, house or structure within the corporate limits of the city as a place of residence or as a place of business is hereby required to place all trash and/or garbage being disposed of from the premises in plastic trash bags or other appropriate disposable containers that are secured to prevent scattering of refuse. The bags or disposable containers shall be placed unbroken in the city-furnished containers.
(b) It is hereby declared to be unlawful for any person to place any garbage or trash on the ground, in an open box or container, to store the same in any receptacle other than containers meeting the requirements of this chapter, or to place garbage or trash in city-furnished containers not otherwise assigned for their individual use.
(c) Commercial and residential account holders shall not share the same container.
(d) It is hereby declared unlawful for any person to place brush/trimmings, rocks, dirt, construction material or any other material listed in section 44-6 in any city-furnished container.
(e) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, to fail to properly secure loose garbage, trash or other waste for transporting by way of tarpaulin, net, or other means to effectively prevent the blowing or spilling of waste onto streets, highways, or thoroughfares within the city.
(Prior Code, § 11-2; Ord. of 4-24-1984; Ord. of 9-11-2014)