Except as otherwise provided by ordinances licensing junk dealers, private scavenging or salvaging refuse material, including the buying, collecting or gathering of rags, junk, waste paper or other waste material, is prohibited within the corporate limits of the city. It shall be unlawful and a violation of the provisions of this chapter for any person, whether or not licensed as a junk dealer, to engage in scavenging or salvaging refuse material or waste set out by householders for collection by the city or brought to the curbline by city collectors in the process of making the collection, whether such refuse material or waste is in containers or not.
(Ord. 5455, passed 2-26-1963) Penalty, see § 939.99