(A) It shall be unlawful to dump, burn, bury, destroy, or otherwise dispose of refuse within the jurisdictional limits of the municipality except at an approved refuse disposal site.
(B) The municipality may acquire by lease or purchase a suitable place or places wherein yard waste may be deposited by residents of the municipality. All such places shall be appropriately posted by signs designating the particular site as an approved yard waste site and specifying the particular type of yard waste allowed to be deposited at such site. For the purposes of this chapter, the term YARD WASTE shall be defined to include only the following:
(1) Compost material. Shall consist only of plant material, leaves, and grass clippings collected as a result of the care of lawns and gardens; and
(2) Tree limbs. Shall consist only of tree limbs and branches three inches or less in diameter.
(C) It shall be unlawful:
(1) For any nonresident of the municipality to deposit yard waste or any other refuse at the municipal compost site or at the municipal tree limb site;
(2) For anyone to deposit anything but compost material at the designated municipal compost site; and
(3) For anyone to deposit anything but tree limbs of the aforementioned size at the designated municipal tree limb site.
(D) The governing body of the municipality is empowered to establish and promulgate from time to time, by resolution, such rules and regulations as it may deem appropriate and necessary for the operation and/or use of the municipal compost and tree limb sites.
(1991 Code, § 4-211) (Ord. 552, passed 6-18-1998) Penalty, see § 10.99