(A) Standard. All vessels, personal property, facilities, or equipment on or about, or used on or about city harbor properties or property or water under control of the city, shall be kept at all times in a condition of reasonable cleanliness and sanitation so as not to constitute a common nuisance or existing or potential danger or harm to public health.
(B) Animal wastes or droppings. No person having control of any animal on city facilities shall allow waste or droppings of that animal to remain on any harbor facility of the city. Animal wastes or droppings shall immediately be removed and placed in a waste receptacle.
(C) Fish carcass/fish waste. No person shall cause, suffer, permit, deposit, or dispose of fish carcass or fish waste on or about the city harbor properties, city property, or water under the control of the city, except as specifically allowed in this section.
(1) Commercial users.
(a) Commercial users shall be responsible for disposal of fish carcass and fish waste and shall not use city refuse or waste containers or other city facilities for disposal. Commercial users are persons, businesses, concessionaires, and non-public entities performing any regular or non-incidental activity or event conducted for the purpose of selling products or providing goods or services for a profit or private financial gain.
(b) Commercial uses include, but are not limited to, permanent or portable stores, restaurants, shops, commercial fishing vessels, ocean charterboats, fish cleaning services, tour or excursion boats, shuttle services, ticket sales, and watercraft rentals.
(2) Non-commercial users. Non-commercial users may dispose of fish carcass and fish waste:
(a) By proper use of the grinder and/or city refuse or waste containers at the public fish cleaning station;
(b) By transferring such carcass or waste to a person or entity that has agreed to dispose of such materials in such a way as to not violate any federal or state law or regulation applicable to the materials;
(c) By removing of such materials from the harbor properties; or
(d) By disposing of such materials upon the waters of the harbor, provided such carcass or waste was exclusively used for recreational crabbing within the harbor.
(D) Industrial waste. No person shall throw, place, leave, deposit, or abandon, or cause or permit to be thrown, placed, left, deposited, or abandoned, any industrial waste, litter, or sewage on any city harbor public property, except in receptacles designed by the city for the disposal of such materials or substances.
(E) Odorous waste. No person shall cause, suffer, permit, place, leave, deposit, or abandon aboard any vessel, in any motor vehicle or trailer, or on any city harbor properties or other public property, litter in the nature of offal, garbage putrid, or decaying or deleterious substances which give off an offensive odor, except in a closed nonporous container.
(F) Off-premises waste. No person shall use city refuse or waste containers for other than wastes or litter generated on city harbor properties or waters controlled by the city and for those wastes or litter generated from a vessel’s voyage.
(G) Toilet standards. No person on a vessel equipped with a toilet shall use or permit the use of such toilet on waters controlled by the city, unless the vessel is equipped with facilities approved by the U.S. Coast Guard, or other appropriate governmental agency, and such equipment is in good operating condition adequate to treat, hold, incinerate, or otherwise handle sewage in such a manner that is capable of preventing water pollution. Dumping of vessel holding tanks in harbor waters is not allowed. Persons shall use the CVA pump/dump station for dumping of vessel holding tanks.
(Ord. 292, passed 12-18-2012) Penalty, see § 11.99