Every owner or his or her agent or the occupant of any house, building, flat, apartment or tenement building where people reside, board or lodge, or where animal or vegetable food is prepared or served, shall, maintain at all times, in good order and repair, a receptacle for household waste, unless such receptacle is provided by a disposal company under contract with the City. When more than one (1) such receptacle is regularly required, the owner, or his or her agent, or the occupant shall be responsible for renting such additional receptacles from the disposal company under contract with the City.
Every occupant shall deposit nothing but household waste in the receptacle provided for the same.
The term “household waste” as used in this chapter shall exclude ashes, grass, lawn clippings and other yard waste.
(1942 Code Chap. XLII, Art. II, Sec. 1) (Ord. 2007-4-2. Passed 4-11-07; Ord. 2021-7-1. Passed 7-14-21.)