(A) Duty to use containers. It shall be unlawful for any person in possession, charge or control of any place where garbage, recyclables, refuse, rubbish or any other litter is accumulated or produced to fail to place the same in the proper container or to fail to maintain any such container in the proper location, as regulated by the collection practices policy.
(1) Rollout containers used in the residential and city-served nonresidential garbage collection program are furnished by the city in accordance with the collection practices policy and are the property of the city.
(2) The city does not provide bulk container services, and establishments required by the collection practices policy to have bulk containers shall be responsible to contract with private contractors for said service.
(B) Special collection items.
(1) Yard waste, bulky items and other special collection items of a size or quantity too large to be placed in containers may be placed at the front of the premises in the grass strip between the street and the sidewalk where such strips are available, otherwise they shall be placed off that portion of the street right-of-way normally used by vehicles, pedestrians or for surface drainage.
(2) Further regulation of such items and collection of such items by the city will take place in accordance with the collection practices policy.
(C) Other limitations. No person shall throw, dispose of, or sweep from any household, yard, sidewalk or elsewhere, any garbage, rubbish, dirt, refuse or similar matter into a storm drain, manhole, gutter, center strip or any other stormwater conveyance system (ditches, culverts and the like) or onto a sidewalk or street, but shall deposit or dispose of the same as herein specified in this chapter.
(D) Materials to be bagged. Some materials must be bagged or further prepared for collection, as outlined in the collection practices policy.
(Code 2019, § 8-6) (Ord. passed 4-11-1966; Ord. passed 5-12-2003; Ord. passed 1-28-2019) Penalty, see § 50.999
Statutory reference:
Placing of trash, refuse and the like on right-of-way of public road, see G.S. § 14-399