TITLE V: PUBLIC WORKS
   Chapter
      50.   SOLID WASTE COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL
      51.   WATER
      52.   SEWERS
      53.   WATER AND SEWER EXTENSIONS AND AVAILABILITY CHARGES
      54.   PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS
      55.   ELECTRICITY
CHAPTER 50: SOLID WASTE COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL
Section
   50.01   Definitions
   50.02   Waste required to be deposited in approved containers
   50.03   Burning or burying garbage and refuse regulated
   50.04   Accumulation of garbage and refuse to be in containers
   50.05   Containers required; specifications; cleanliness
   50.06   Precollection practices
   50.07   Location of containers; collection times
   50.08   Unlawful to damage containers
   50.09   Placement of tree trimmings
   50.10   Construction and demolition debris; hazardous waste; animal waste
   50.11   Collection of solid waste fee as it pertains to the city fee schedule
 
   50.99   Penalty
§ 50.01 DEFINITIONS.
   For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
   BUILDING MATERIAL SCRAPS. Scrap building material from the construction, reconstruction, remodeling or repair of a building, walkway, driveway, sign and other structure, including but not limited to, excavated earth, tree stumps, rocks, gravel, bricks, plaster, concrete, lumber or any other similar material used in construction or the containers or wrappings therefor.
   CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION DEBRIS. Building material from the construction, reconstruction, remodeling or repair of a building, house, walkway, driveway, sign and other structure, including but not limited to, excavated earth, tree stumps, rocks, gravel, bricks, plaster, concrete, shingles, metal, carpet, lumber or any other similar material used in construction or the containers or wrappings thereof.
   ELECTRONIC. Small appliances, computers, printers, stereos, TV's, monitors, microwaves, VCR/DVD, and the like.
   GARBAGE. All putrescible wastes, including animal and vegetable matter, animal offal and carcasses and recognizable industrial by-products, but excluding sewage and human wastes.
   REFUSE. All nonputrescible wastes. (Not decayable, putrefiable or spoilable).
   SOLID WASTE. Garbage, refuse, rubbish, trash and other discarded solid materials, including solid waste materials resulting from homes, businesses, industrial, commercial and agricultural operations and from community activities, but does not include solids or dissolved materials in domestic sewage or other significant pollutants in water resources, such as silt, dissolved or suspended solids in industrial wastewater effluents, dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or other common water pollutants.
   TREE TRIMMINGS. Tree limbs, leaves, shrubbery trimmings and cuttings and all other trimmings from the natural growth of trees, shrubbery, weeds, plants or grass.
(Prior Code, § 8-150) (Ord. O-02-05, passed 6-2-2005; Ord. O-07-17, passed 6-29-2017)
§ 50.02 WASTE REQUIRED TO BE DEPOSITED IN APPROVED CONTAINERS.
   It shall be unlawful for any person to throw, place or deposit any garbage or refuse of any kind on any public or private property except in approved containers or as otherwise provided in this code.
(Prior Code, § 8-151) Penalty, see § 50.99
Cross-reference:
   Garbage in cemeteries, see § 91.02
   Unlawful accumulations, littering and the like, see §§ 93.045 through 93.051
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