(A) Definitions. For the purpose of this ordinance, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ANY OTHER OFFENSIVE OR NOXIOUS SUBSTANCES. Any substance which will attract any vermin, rodents, insects, or other disease-carrying animal.
GARBAGE. Refuse animal or vegetable matter or substance from a kitchen and refuse fruit, vegetables, and animal matter and substances from stores and markets and restaurants and food containers, wrappings, or any other article upon which food particles or other particles which are attractive to vermin, rodents, flies, or insects are adhering thereto.
(B) Disposal restrictions; receptacles.
(1) It shall be unlawful for any person, company, or corporation within the city to deposit or place any garbage or other offensive substance as herein defined in any street, alley, public place, or upon any private property therein, owned by those persons or not, unless the same shall be contained in metal vessels or cans of a capacity as will afford storage capacity for all garbage and offensive substances as shall be produced or accumulated on the private property or premises used in connection with the receptacles, and any other owner, lessee, or other occupant of any building, place, or places of business, shall at all times keep suitable receptacles as aforementioned for removing and holding all garbage and offensive substances. These receptacles as aforementioned for the storage of garbage and offensive substances to be watertight and so kept with tightly fitting covers.
(2) It shall be unlawful for any person to place or cause to be placed in any street, lane, alley, or public place in the city or upon any private property including the private property of the owner thereof or the user thereof, any tin cans or other receptacles from which animal or vegetable matter may have been removed leaving any portion thereof to breed or attract flies, vermin, rodents, or other disease-carrying animals, unless those tin cans or other receptacles are contained in metal cans provided with tightly fitted covers.
(3) No person, firm, or corporation shall dispose of any wrapping paper or container previously containing food or beverage except in a suitable sealed contained or except that a dumping ground authorized for use as such by the city or except by burning so as to reduce the entire container, paper, or wrapping in inedible ashes which are not insect-breeding or vermin-attracting.