(a) Every owner, occupant or person having charge or control of any occupied structure shall dispose of all of his or her garbage, rubbish and/or organic waste, including discarded waste which might provide food for insects and rodents, in a clean and sanitary manner by placing it in an approved nonleakable, nonabsorbent, tightly covered garbage storage receptacle or in other approved garbage disposal facilities. The doors on appliances such as washers, refrigerators, and stoves shall be removed before being placed for collection and may be placed next to the appliance for collection.
(b) No garbage, rubbish and/or organic waste stored outside shall be stored within 20 feet of any dwelling on adjacent property, in front of a dwelling or secondary building, or in an area readily visible from a bordering street. All containers must be stored in a manner that does not detract from the appearance of the owner's property or any neighboring property.
(c) All commercial compactors, storage bins, refuse containers and mechanical equipment shall be contained wholly within enclosed buildings, or shall be enclosed by a solid wall or fence of such nature and height as to conceal completely all operations thereof, or use thereof, and all materials therein, from any observer's view, if the observer is standing at the grade level on an adjacent premises, or if such compactors, bins, containers and equipment are viewed from a roadway.
(d) An owner of property for rent or lease must see that the occupant of the premises complies with this section and is ultimately responsible for providing containers adequate to hold such refuse as the premises may generate.
(e) In every multiple dwelling, the owner, operator or his or her agent shall be responsible for providing and maintaining suitable approved receptacles or other conveniences for the disposal of rubbish, garbage, refuse or other waste matter, provided, however, that in a dwelling structure other than a multiple dwelling, the occupant of each dwelling unit shall provide himself or herself with such receptacles or other conveniences.
(f) When discarded newspapers and magazines are placed upon the tree lawn in anticipation of trash collection, such newspapers and magazines shall be separated from other waste and then securely tied, bundled or placed within paper bags or other similar paper containers.
(g) No rubbish and garbage shall be placed for collection by the City or its agent before 12:00 p.m. on the day prior to the publicly scheduled day for the collection of rubbish and garbage for that street. All owners and/or occupiers shall place their rubbish or garbage on their own tree lawn area. If a hardship occurs that requires the deposit of rubbish and garbage at an earlier time, a permit therefor shall first be obtained from the Director of Public Safety. After the collection of rubbish and garbage, property owners or occupants shall remove rubbish containers from the tree lawn area and return them to their regular storage area not later than 8:00 p.m. on the day that the garbage and rubbish are collected.
(h) No person shall deposit or dump waste upon sloped property when the waste may fall to the lower property and result in the creation of a nuisance or damage to the lower property.
(i) No person shall fill a hole or create an excavation for the purpose of filling it with, or burying in it, tree stumps, construction debris, or waste on any property within the City.
(Ord. 145-13. Passed 7-1-13.)