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Hazardous refuse and recycling materials shall be stored as follows:
1. In approved noncombustible containers or bins equipped with tightly fitting cover.
2. In approved noncombustible outdoor storage bins located a minimum of 10 feet from any building or building opening.
EXCEPTION: Approved noncombustible storage bins may be located adjacent to a minimum one-hour wall and a minimum of 10 feet from any building opening.
3. In rubbish rooms, recycling room, constructed of minimum of one hour fire barrier. Rubbish rooms shall be equipped with an automatic sprinkler system.
4. In isolated areas acceptable to the Chief. Every industrial, commercial, residential, institutional, educational, and assembly occupancy shall provide a specifically designated room or area, in or on the premises, where approved hazardous refuse storage facilities are maintained awaiting disposal, removal, or approved processing.
Hazardous refuse and recycling materials shall not be stored, as follows:
1. The storing or disposing of hazardous refuse and recycling materials on any public street, alley, sidewalk, parkway, park recreation area, easement, firebreak, fire road, walkway, or freeway, except in those authorized areas, bins, or containers posted or marked for such use, is prohibited.
2. The storing or disposing of hazardous refuse and recycling materials on any parcel of land or premises which is not owned, rented, leased, or otherwise legally controlled by the person, party, or firm responsible for the storage or disposal is prohibited.
3. The dumping, disposing, or littering of hazardous refuse and recycling materials onto any premises, except an authorized waste material processing plant, licensed public dump, or sanitary fill, is prohibited.
4. The use of a room or suite of rooms for the storage of hazardous refuse and recycling materials in any occupancy, except as provided for in Section 57.304.2.1 for the specific purpose, is prohibited.
5. The use of rubbish chutes for the storage of hazardous refuse and recycling materials is prohibited. Every rubbish chute shall terminate in a rubbish room or approved noncombustible container outside of a building of sufficient capacity to receive the entire volume of hazardous refuse being dumped in the chute.
6. The use of combustible containers to receive hazardous refuse and recycling materials from rubbish chutes in lieu of rubbish rooms is prohibited.
7. Nothing in this section shall be deemed to waive any of the requirements in Chapter 6 of the Los Angeles Municipal Code Public Works and Property Code, or regulation of the Department of Public Works which regulates the hours of the day in which garbage receptacles are permitted on public streets.
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