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No person shall hereafter maintain or construct a privy or privy vault unless such privy or privy vault be constructed and maintained according to the regulations of the Department of Public Health of the City of Flint, which regulations shall be furnished by the Department of Public Health on application, and no person shall hereafter construct a privy or privy vault without first obtaining from the Department of Public Health of the City of Flint a permit for that purpose; provided further, that temporary privies or toilets for workmen employed on construction work and for use at carnivals, circuses and other traveling tent shows may be used if approved in advance by the Department of Public Health.
(Ord. 297, passed 5-8-1939)
Any cart, wagon or truck or other vehicle used for the purpose of conveying away swill, offal, garbage or excrement shall be perfectly tight and covered so as to prevent the contents from leaking, spilling or becoming offensive because of odor, and no such cart, wagon or vehicle when not actually in use, shall be allowed in any street, lane, alley or public place within the City of Flint.
(Ord. 297, passed 5-8-1939)
The Director of Public Health of the City of Flint shall have the power and it is hereby made his duty to abate all nuisances herein designated which may be injurious to the public health of said City. The Director of Public Health is hereby authorized and directed to cause the removal of all privies and privy vaults not constructed or maintained pursuant to the regulations of said Department of Public Health. Said Director of Public Health and all persons acting under his orders and directions in removing such privies or privy vaults and abating such nuisances shall not be liable to any person constructing or making any such privy or privy vault, for any damages on account of such abatement and removal thereof.
(Ord. 297, passed 5-8-1939)
No distiller, dyer, machinist, manufacturer or other person shall himself or by others, discharge out of or from any stillhouse, dye house, workshop, factory, machine shop, dwelling house, kitchen or other building any foul or nauseous liquid, water or other substance into or upon any highway, street, alley, lane, public space or square, or into any aforesaid road or ground, or deposit or allow to be deposited any refuse, drippings or nauseous liquids or other substances from distributing pipes of gas conductors into any sewer, receiving basin, gutter or other public place within the City, or force or discharge into any public or private sewer or drain, any steam vapor or gas.
(Ord. 297, passed 5-8-1939)
No person or persons, firm or corporation shall within the City limits of the City of Flint, place, deposit, throw or empty, or permit to be placed, deposited, thrown or emptied into the waters of the Flint River or any other stream within the City, any dead carcass or any decaying animal, vegetable or mineral matter, or any waste oil, coal tar, or sawdust, or any chemical refuse or any industrial waste, or any straw, hay, green boughs, manure, cord wood, vegetables, excrement, bones, horns, shells, meats, hides, offal, rubbish, garbage or any other substance of any unwholesome, unsightly, malodorous, contaminating, polluting or obnoxious nature.
(Ord. 297, passed 5-8-1939)
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to unload, permit or cause to be unloaded any bulk cement from trucks or other vehicles into vats or bins at bulk cement mixing plants in the City, without providing a completely enclosed device, chute or passage through which the bulk cement can pass from the truck or vehicle into the bin or vat, which completely enclosed device, chute or passage will prevent the dissemination, blowing or dispersing of cement dust into the atmosphere. All persons engaged in the business of operating a bulk cement mixing plant in the City shall cause such a completely enclosed device, chute or passage to be installed at all openings into bins or vats where bulk cement is so unloaded.
(b) The unloading, transfer or transportation of cement or concrete to, at or from a bulk cement mixing plant in violation of this section, or in such a manner as to permit cement dust to be released into the atmosphere whether on private property or on any public property or public right-of-way, is hereby declared to in injurious to the health, safety and comfort of the public of the City, and is hereby declared to be a public nuisance.
(c) The term
BULK CEMENT MIXING PLANT when used in this section shall mean a place where concrete or mortar is mixed or prepared for ultimate use at some other premises.
(Ord. 652, passed 11-11-1946)
ABANDONED PROPERTY. Deteriorated, wrecked or derelict property in usable condition, having no value other than nominal scrap or junk value, if any, and which has been left unprotected from the elements, including, without being so restricted, deteriorated, wrecked, inoperative or partially dismantled motor vehicles, trailers, boats, machinery, refrigerators, washing machines, plumbing, fixtures, furniture and any other similar articles in that condition.
AIRCRAFT. Any contrivance now known or hereafter invented, used or designated for navigation or for flight in the air, including, but not limited to airplanes, helicopters, lighter-than-air dirigibles and balloons.
AUTHORIZED RECEPTACLE. A litter storage or collection receptacle as required by published rules and regulations of the Director of Public Works and Utilities.
BUILDING MATERIALS. Any materials useful in the construction of buildings or other structures, and/or materials generated from demolition and/or rehabilitation of buildings or other structures, all of which includes, but are not limited to, lumber, bricks, concrete or cinder blocks, plumbing materials, electrical wiring or equipment, heating ducts or equipment, shingles, mortar, concrete and cement.
ENFORCEMENT OFFICER. Any employee of the City of Flint so designated by the City Administrator.
GARBAGE. Putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food and which is not properly contained in an authorized receptacle.
HANDBILL. Any printed or written matter, any sample or device, dodger, circular, leaflet, pamphlet, newspaper, magazine, paper, booklet or any other printed or otherwise reproduced original or copies of any matter or literature other than a newspaper.
JUNK PROPERTY. Deteriorated, wrecked or derelict property not in usable condition, having no value other than nominal scrap value, if any, and which has been left unprotected from the elements, including, without being so restricted, deteriorated, wrecked inoperative or partially dismantled motor vehicles, aircraft, trailers, water craft, other recreational vehicles, and/or parts thereof, machinery, refrigerators, washing machines, other household appliances, plumbing fixtures, furniture, and any other such property in such condition and which is not properly contained in an authorized receptacle.
LITTER. Garbage, refuse, rubbish and trash as defined herein and all other waste material which, if thrown, deposited, stored, accumulated or allowed to accumulate as herein prohibited, would tend to create a danger to public health, safety and welfare.
NEWSPAPER. A newspaper of general circulation as defined by general law, any newspaper duly entered with the Post Office Department of the United States, in accordance with Federal statute or regulations, and any newspaper filed and recorded with any recording officer as provided by general law; and, in addition thereto, shall mean and include any periodical or current magazine regularly published with not less than four issues per year, and sold to the public.
PARK. A park, reservation, playground, beach, recreation center, or any other public area in the City, owned or used by the City and devoted to active or passive recreation.
PARKWAY. A strip of land located between a sidewalk and a physical street, whether the land is located on a part of the street right-of-way or not.
PERSON. Any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company or organization of any kind.
PLACE OF BUSINESS. Any place other than a private premises, a public building or a public place.
PRIVATE PREMISES. Any dwelling, house, building or other structure, designed or used, whether wholly or in part, for private residential purposes, whether inhabited or temporarily or continuously inhabited or vacant and shall include any yard, grounds, walk, driveway, porch, steps, vestibule, mailbox, belonging or appurtenant to the dwelling, house, building or other structure and any portion of a street right-of-way immediately adjoining the premises which separates the premises from a roadway.
PUBLIC BUILDING. Any building owned or occupied by any governmental agency.
PUBLIC PREMISES. Any premises, including, but not limited to, streets, including street rights-of-way, sidewalks, boulevards, alleys or other public right-of-way, and any and all public parks, squares, spaces, grounds and buildings owned by, in possession of or under control of the United States of America, the State of Michigan, the County of Genesee, or the City of Flint, or any agency or political subdivision of any government.
PUBLIC RECEPTACLE. A litter storage and collection receptacle furnished by any person or by any governmental agency for use by the public.
REFUSE. Any putrescible and nonputrescible solid wastes, except body wastes, including, but not limited to, garbage, leaves from trees, rubbish, ashes and solid market and industrial wastes and which is not properly contained in an authorized receptacle.
RUBBISH. Nonputrescible solid wastes consisting of both combustible and noncombustible wastes, including, but not limited to, paper, wrappings, cigarettes, cardboard, tin cans, wood, glass, bedding, crockery and similar materials and which is not properly contained in an authorized receptacle.
TRASH. All of the following when not properly contained in an authorized receptacle.
(1) ASHES. The residue left from burning paper, leaves, weeds, wood and coal.
(2) GARBAGE. All organic refuse and rejected food wastes.
(3) HOUSEHOLD RUBBISH. All types of household materials commonly discarded, such as newspapers, magazines, books, wrappings, cartons, boxes, crates, excelsior, rags, clothing, bedding, floor covering, wallpaper, leather objects, and sweepings.
(4) KITCHEN RUBBISH. All types of food containers and wrappings, including cans, bottles, jars, broken glass, crockery, paper and wood boxes and metal objects.
(5) YARD RUBBISH. All 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 above named were produced from the work of commercial landscape, tree trimming men or utility companies, that can be converted to compost humus. It does not include stumps, agricultural wastes, animal wastes, roots, sewage sludge or garbage.
(Ord. 2624-B, passed 4-10-1978; Ord. 2672, passed 10-23-1978; Ord. 2916, passed 7-23-1984; Ord. 3206, passed 6-8-1992)
No person shall throw or deposit building materials, litter and/or junk in or upon any sidewalk, parkway, gutter, street, alley or other public places within the City except in public receptacles, in authorized receptacles for collection or in an official collection or disposal site.
(Ord. 2624-B, passed 4-10-1978; Ord. 3206, passed 6-8-1992; Ord. 3525, passed 5-5-2004)
No person shall throw or deposit building materials, litter and/or junk on any occupied private property within the City, whether owned by the person or not, except that the owner or person in control of private property may maintain public receptacles or authorized receptacles for collection in such a manner that litter will be prevented from being carried or deposited by the elements upon any place.
(Ord. 2624-B, passed 4-10-1978; Ord. 3157, passed 2-11-1991; Ord. 3206, passed 6-8-1992; Ord. 3526, passed 5-5-2004)
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