(A) The term
WASTE, as herein defined, shall mean cinders, ashes, plaster, brick, stone, sawdust or sand.
(1976 Code, § 4-203)
(B) It shall be unlawful for any person to keep in, on or about any residence or commercial enterprise, decayed vegetable or animal substance, garbage, trash, solid waste, compost materials or refuse matter of any kind that may be injurious to the public health or offensive to the residents of the city. It shall be unlawful to throw or sweep into the streets, alleys, parks or other public grounds any dirt, paper, nails, pieces of glass, refuse, waste, trash, compost materials or rubbish of any kind. No person may permit garbage, rubbish, waste, trash, compost materials or refuse to collect and all persons shall remove the same from his or her property within 24 hours after being notified to do so by the city’s Police Chief, who shall represent the city’s Board of Health. All persons residing in residential districts as indicated on the city’s Zoning Map shall have provided and maintained by the city receptacles for the collection of solid waste, compost materials and recycling materials. The city shall provide for the removal of such solid waste, compost materials and recycling materials with cost for removal to be assessed to the residents within the city at the rate of $15 per month for residential unit; and at a rate set by resolution by the City Council for non-residential solid waste, compost materials and recycling material removal.
(1976 Code, § 4-204)
(C) The city has provided, for the use of all residents of the city, solid waste receptacles which are tan in color and compost material receptacles which are green in color. It shall be unlawful to place compost materials, primarily consisting of grass, leaves and small branches less than two inches in diameter, in receptacles designated for solid waste. It shall also be unlawful to place solid waste, which shall mean material which does not meet the definition of compost materials, in receptacles designated for compost materials.
(1976 Code, § 4-204.01)
(Ord. 557, passed 9-22-1977; Ord. 644, passed 7-31-1980; Ord. 686, passed 7-29-1982; Ord. 747, passed 8-9-1984; Ord. 1063, passed 7-20-1992; Ord. 1221, passed 9-9-1996; Ord. 1283, passed 9-25-2000; Ord. 1296, passed 10-8-2001; Ord. 1406, passed 10-6-2008; Ord. 1415, passed 9-13-2010; Ord. 1474, passed 9-5-2017) Penalty, see § 51.99
Statutory reference:
Related provisions, see Neb. RS 19-2106