(a) Each householder where garbage or rubbish is created or allowed to be, shall obtain and keep available for the exclusive use of the premises, a sufficient number of approved containers to hold all the garbage and rubbish created or accumulated thereon for the period of one week between garbage collections.
(b) In the case of multiple dwellings, the property owner and the tenant shall both be considered primarily responsible for the observance of these regulations.
(c) Garbage and rubbish containers shall be standard size, air and watertight, and shall be equipped with two handles or a bale for lifting, and tight-fitting lid. Containers shall not exceed thirty-five gallons in capacity or seventy-five pounds in weight when filled, unless they shall be containers designed to be emptied by mechanical means.
(d) All garbage created or accumulated on the premises shall be kept in approved containers as herein provided.
(e) Garbage containers and rubbish not in containers shall be kept on private premises in a location not readily visible from the street, and not a nuisance to adjoining neighbors. No garbage or rubbish shall be kept within the limits of a street or other public place except when placed for collection.
(f) Garbage and rubbish shall be placed for collection weekly on the scheduled day. Material shall be placed at the curb between the sidewalk and the curb, or not more than six feet from the edge of the paved roadway. No refuse shall be placed for collection earlier than eighteen hours prior to the start of such collection, and rubbish containers shall be returned to their proper location on private property within fourteen hours following the start of the collection.
(g) Newspapers and magazines, and/or yard refuse may be placed for collection in disposable containers, or tied in bundles in sizes convenient for handling by one person.
(h) A householder may dispose of garbage by means of a sink disposal unit so constructed as to reduce the garbage to a state efficiently handled by the sanitary sewer system.
(i) Small dead animals may be buried on the premises at a depth of not less than three feet.
(j) No person shall remove any garbage or rubbish from any single family or two- family premises occupied by a household except the householder, owner or garbage collector.
(k) No householder or other person in the City shall throw or deposit any garbage, rubbish or waste matter, or cause the same to be thrown or deposited upon any street or any public place, or upon any vacant lot, or where rats, mice, dogs, cats, birds, fowl or other living thing can feed thereon. (Ord. 93-42. Passed 11-8-93.)