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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)
In every multiple dwelling occupied by five families or over in which the owner does not reside, there shall be a responsible person designated by the owner for the purposes of compliance with this chapter. Both this person and the owner shall be responsible for maintaining the entire premises including the yards and one-half of the alley, street and any easement adjoining the dwelling free of all litter.
(Ord. 2027, passed 2-5-1968; Ord. 3456, passed 6-12-2000)
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