It is hereby declared a menace to the public safety and a nuisance for any person to cause or permit the existence or storage in any place accessible to children of any abandoned or discarded refrigerator, icebox, ice chest, deep freezer or other air-tight appliance or container of any kind, of a capacity of one and one-half cubic feet or more, from which the lids, doors or other covers have not been removed or which cannot easily be opened by a child, by means of pushing only, from the inside thereof.
(1974 Code, § 5-5-2.5)