(a) No householder or commercial operator shall permit to be accumulated upon his premises any garbage or other refuse except in approved containers.
(b) All garbage shall be kept in rust-resistant, water tight, non-absorbent, rodent resistant, washable containers or plastic bags. Containers shall not exceed thirty gallons in capacity and shall have two handles, a carrying bail and must be sealed or tied shut.
(c) All other refuse shall be placed in substantial containers not subject to disintegration by moisture. Such containers shall be of adequate capacity and provided in sufficient number to satisfactorily hold all other refuse that accumulates between collections. Insofar as practicable boxes, papers and similar odd articles shall be crushed and bundled in lengths not to exceed three feet and not to exceed fifty pounds in weight.
(d) No householder or commercial operator may dispose of garbage in any other manner than the foregoing except by the use of a garbage disposal unit which trends and discharges garbage direct to the sanitary sewer. No other refuse may be burned in the container in which said refuse is placed for removal. (Ord. 1997-10. Passed 7-28-97.)