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ARTICLE II. LITTER, WASTES AND THE LIKE
DIVISION 1. GENERALLY
For the purposes of this article, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section.
COMMERCIAL WASTE. The miscellaneous waste materials, including garbage, rubbish, ashes and waste, including construction waste, resulting from the operation of business enterprises and institutions, including multifamily dwellings containing seven or more units, but excludes trade waste.
COMPOST. All organic materials which grow on the property which are to be disposed of, such as grass clippings, vegetable and other garden debris, weed, leaves, plants, clippings from hedges and shrubs, branches or tree trimmings less than four feet in length and two inches in diameter from trees and bushes provided that none of the items were produced from the work of commercial landscape, tree trimming service or utility company that can be converted to compost humus. It does not include stumps, agricultural wastes, animal wastes, roots, sewage sludge or garbage.
CONSTRUCTION WASTE. Waste from building construction, alteration, demolition or repair, and dirt from excavations.
DOMESTIC WASTE. The waste material resulting from the usual routine housekeeping and includes garbage, rubbish and ashes resulting from the usual routine housekeeping and including garbage, rubbish and ashes generated from single-family detached dwellings or multifamily dwellings containing six or fewer units.
GARBAGE. All waste animal, fish, fowl, fruit or vegetable matter incident to the use, preparation and storage of food.
LITTER. Any garbage, rubbish, waste material or other substance placed or allowed to remain on the ground or in any other manner constituting a nuisance.
MUNICIPAL WASTE. Certain discarded products incident to housekeeping and commercial enterprises, as further defined in this section.
RUBBISH. Combustible and noncombustible waste materials, except garbage; the term shall include the residue from the burning of wood, coal, coke and other combustible materials, paper, rags, cartons, boxes, wood, excelsior, rubber, leather, tree branches, yard trimmings, tin cans, metals, mineral matter, glass, crockery and dust and other similar materials.
TRADE WASTE. The waste material resulting from industrial operation and is not classified as municipal waste.
(Ord. 2027, passed 2-5-1968; Ord. 3194, passed 1-27-1992; Ord. 3456, passed 6-12-2000)
No person shall deposit, leave or allow to remain in any public street, alley or public place or any private place or premises, any glass, metal, stone, earthenware, tacks, nails, cinders, medicine, poisons or other substances of a nature likely to cause injury to children, travelers or pedestrians or to injure any animal or which might damage any vehicle. No person shall dispose of any medicine, drug or remedy containing a drug of any kind whatsoever, whether it is in a liquid, tablet, capsule, pill or other form, by throwing or placing the same in a trash container or other container or upon any street, highway, boulevard, alley or public place or on any private property in the City. Medicines or poisons from domestic sources, hospitals, clinics, convalescent homes, nursing homes and similar sources shall be disposed of by flushing into a water closet or other fixture or otherwise disposed of in a manner acceptable to the Department of Health.
(Ord. 2027, passed 2-5-1968; Ord. 3456, passed 6-12-2000)
Public receptacles are for use of pedestrians only, and shall not be used by vendors or by occupants of adjacent premises. Newspapers, handbills and wastepaper or other litter shall not be scattered or thrown upon public or private property, but shall be deposited in private or public receptacles.
(Ord. 2027, passed 2-5-1968; Ord. 3456, passed 6-12-2000)
(a) It shall be the duty of the owner or person in control of any premises, vacant or occupied, to keep his or her premises, sidewalks and all adjoining public property between the center of street and center of alley free of litter at all times. All litter removed shall be placed in proper receptacles or removed to an approved disposal location.
(b) For the purpose of this article, the property lying between the outermost edge of the street right- of-way and the street curb or the drainage course paralleling the street where there is no curb, shall be deemed to be the responsibility of the person hereunder for the property abutting the street right-of- way, provided that the person shall not be responsible for dead, dangerous, diseased or insect-infected trees located on the right-of-way.
(Ord. 2027, passed 2-5-1968; Ord. 3456, passed 6-12-2000)
Earth or other materials shall not be placed on or removed from any premises unless the written permission of the owner of the land is obtained and exhibited on request of the enforcing officer by the operator of the vehicle used for loading, transporting or dumping the material. Such permission shall be subject to zoning regulations and to the requirements that no nuisance shall be created.
(Ord. 2027, passed 2-5-1968; Ord. 3456, passed 6-12-2000)
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