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(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.)
(a) No person shall place or maintain any receptacle for garbage, ashes or rubbish so that it will be or constitute a nuisance.
(b) Receptacles for garbage, ashes or rubbish maintained for public collection shall be so placed as to be readily accessible for collection.
(c) In an ML, MH, C1, C2, C3 aud I zoning district, no person shall store refuse or garbage lawfully retained on the premises pending disposition thereof unless same is stored out of view of the public right of way, within a permanent building or structure or is shielded in a manner approved by the Architectural Board of Review.
(d) The Mayor or Director of Public Safety and the Building Commissioner are hereby charged with the enforcement of subsection (c) hereof.
(Ord. 59-08. Passed 7-21-2008.)
No person, firm or corporation shall use or suffer or permit to be used any vehicle to convey garbage unless such vehicle is tightly constructed and equipped with a closely fitting cover, and unless such vehicle is tightly covered at all times except when the same is being loaded or unloaded; nor shall any person, firm or corporation load or drive or cause to be loaded or driven on any thoroughfare any such vehicle containing garbage so as to suffer or permit any part of the contents to fall, spill or leak therefrom.
(Ord. 59-08. Passed 7-21-2008.)
(a) No person, firm or corporation shall throw or deposit or cause to be thrown, or deposited, in or upon any court, thoroughfare, harbor, river, canal, pond, creek or other public water or any yard, lot or area, or on any building, any dead animal, garbage or filth, or any substance that is foul, putrid, offensive or dangerous or that is detrimental to public health.
(b) The owner, agent, lessee or other person having the possession, charge or control of any building or premises in or upon which any dead animal, garbage, filth or any substance that is foul, putrid, offensive or dangerous or that is detrimental to public health, has been thrown or deposited, shall cause the same to be removed when ordered to do so by the official charged with the enforcement of this Sanitary Code.
(Ord. 59-08. Passed 7-21-2008.)
(a) The owner or person in control of property not eligible for City collection of garbage, shall keep the premises clean and free of litter and shall take measures to prevent litter from drifting or blowing to adjoining premises.
(b) It shall be the duty of the owner of bulk containers or person in control of premises on which is located bulk containers or detachable units for the collection of rubbish, to:
(1) Keep such bulk container or detachable unit placed behind the building line.
(2) Keep such bulk container or detachable unit in good repair, clean and painted.
(3) Keep such bulk container or detachable unit with lid closed at all times.
(4) Keep such bulk container or detachable unit properly identified as a receptacle for garbage, such identification to be affixed to such bulk container or detachable unit.
(c) "Bulk container" means a metal container of not less than one cubic yard nor more than eight cubic yards, made of watertight construction with doors and constructed so that they may be emptied mechanically by specifically equipped trucks.
(d) Whoever is found guilty of violating any provision of this section shall be guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(Ord. 59-08. Passed 7-21-2008.)
(a) No construction or demolition contractor shall fail to provide on site refuse receptacles, bulk containers or detachable units for loose debris, paper, building material waste, scrap building materials and other refuse produced by those working on the site. All such materials shall be containerized by the end of each day and the site shall be kept in reasonably clean and garbage free condition. The number of refuse receptacles, containers, bulk containers or detachable units shall be determined by the size of the job. Dirt, mud, construction materials or the debris deposited upon any public or private property as a result of the construction or demolition shall be immediately removed by the contractor. The construction site shall be kept clean and orderly at all times.
(b) Whoever violates any provision of this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(Ord. 59-08. Passed 7-21-2008.)
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