(A) Each owner, occupant, or lessee of any building, house, or structure on grounds where refuse, garbage and trash accumulates shall provide containers for refuse, garbage, and trash of not more than 20-gallon capacity. Sturdy plastic bags may be used of not more than 30-gallon capacity.
(B) The Town Council may allow the use of special containers for refuse, garbage, and trash where mechanical means are used for emptying into the truck.
(C) The containers shall be of a metal or durable plastic material with tight-fitting lids or covers and with handles sufficiently strong for workers to conveniently empty. No container shall, with contents, weigh more than 50 pounds. Sturdy plastic bags may be used as containers.
(D) Containers containing garbage shall be kept covered at all times. All trash containers should be sufficient to prevent the blowing, scattering, or spreading of trash. The Town Council shall be the final judge of the sufficiency of the containers.
(E) All refuse, garbage, and trash collected by the town shall be in containers approved by the town.
(F) All accumulations of garbage which shall be placed in containers shall be securely wrapped and the containers must be secured with tight-fitting lids or covers.
(G) All brush, tree limbs, or other like refuse shall be tied in bundles and shall be in 4-foot lengths and 2 feet in height or less.
(H) The charge set forth in § 97.03 per customer limits 5 twenty-gallon containers or 10 sturdy plastic bags per customer. One bundle of brush, tree limbs, or other like refuse of 4-foot length and 2 feet in height shall be considered as 1 bag. If any containers are over and above this limit, the customer will be billed directly by the contractor.
(1992 Code, § 6-41) (Ord. 543A, § 6, passed - -1979; Am. Ord. 873, passed 1-25-1994)