(a) The owner, agent, lessee or occupant of any dwelling unit where refuse is produced or permitted to accumulate shall provide an adequate number of containers for such refuse. Each container shall be rat-proof, insect-proof, watertight, structurally strong to withstand handling stress and easily filled, emptied and cleaned, Each container shall be provided with tight fitting covers and shall be maintained at all times clean and in sanitary and safe condition. Such container shall have a capacity of not less than twenty nor more than thirty-two gallons and shall be provided with suitable handles.
(b) For each tenement apartment house using City refuse disposal, there shall be at least two such receptacles for each apartment unit.
(c) Each and every hotel, restaurant, cafe, lunch room, grocery, store, market, workshop or factory shall be provided with one or more of such receptacles. No garbage shall be placed or permitted to remain elsewhere than in such receptacles.
(Ord. 59-08. Passed 7-21-2008.)
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