(A) No person shall kindle or maintain a bonfire, or burn trash, lumber, leaves, straw or other combustible materials in any street or alley, or on any premises or vacant lot, unless the burning is done in covered receptacles of not more than one and one- quarter inch wire mesh, or of metal.
(B) The Chief of the Fire Department may issue a general permit, by publication, during seasons of the year, for the burning of leaves or other like materials outside the receptacles.
(C) All burning of materials permitted herein shall be conducted on still days, during day-flight, with an adult in constant attendance, and shall be done in a location at least 25 feet from any building or structure, and where standing grass or weeds will not communicate fire to nearby property.
(1980 Code, § 1020.20-5)