(A) For the purpose of this section, the following definition shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning:
MOTOR VEHICLE. Every self-propelled vehicle which is designed for use upon a highway including trailers designed for use with those vehicles, and every vehicle which is propelled by electric power obtained from overhead wires but not operated upon rails.
(B) Any motor vehicle operated within the corporate limits of the city to transport garbage, swill, cans, bottles, glass, crockery, trees or parts thereof, brush, coal, slag, silt, sand, gravel, coke, rock, trash, litter, debris or refuse of any kind whatsoever shall be fully enclosed or covered by a tarpaulin or other suitable material so as to prevent the materials being transported from being deposited, in the course of transporting, upon the streets, sidewalks, passways or upon any public or private highway or road, including any portion of the right-of-way thereof, or in or upon any private property which the public is admitted by easement or license, or upon any private property, or in or upon any public park or other public property.
(C) Nothing in this section shall be construed to require or to place any owner or operator of a motor vehicle in a position of danger; and, therefore, any motor vehicle carrying materials, which are combustible and present a clear and present danger of inflaming the cover required by this section, are hereby exempt from the provisions contained herein.
(2000 Code, § 11-35)