(A) No person shall deposit or permit to be deposited on, over, or along any public road, highway right of way or public or private property within the boundaries of the city any solid waste or litter except in containers or in areas lawfully provided for or permitted for that use.
(B) The existence or accumulation, without the authority of the city, of litter, trash, scrap materials, junk parts, garbage or refuse of any kind upon private property shall be prohibited, provided that said refuse is visible to the occupants of an adjacent or nearby parcel of real property, or to the users of any right of way. It shall be unlawful to allow accumulations of wastepaper, litter or combustible or flammable waste materials or rubbish of any kind to remain in any court, yard, vacant lot or open space.
(C) It shall be unlawful for any owner, manager or employee of a commercial establishment or institution to deposit solid waste from the establishment or institution in any receptacle maintained on a sidewalk or at any other location for disposal of litter by pedestrians.
(D) No person shall dump, deposit, or otherwise dispose of any hazardous or biomedical waste onto land, into soil, rock, air or water, or at unauthorized disposal sites, transfer stations, resource recovery facilities, transformation facilities, buy back centers, drop off recycling centers, or any container to be collected and ultimately deposited, unless otherwise approved in advance and in writing by the city manager, with the consent of the franchise collector/hauler.
(E) No person shall burn or incinerate solid waste except as permitted by the El Dorado County fire protection district.
(F) No person shall tamper with, modify, remove from or deposit solid waste or recyclable materials in any container which has not been provided for his/her use, without the permission of the container owner.
(G) No person shall place solid waste upon the land of another, or in a residential or commercial solid waste receptacle of another, or upon premises other than those from which the solid waste originated, for the purpose of making waste available for collection and disposal.
(H) No person shall, other than the owner or franchised recyclable materials hauler, tamper with, modify or deposit waste into recyclable materials that have been segregated from nonrecyclable waste and placed at a designated collection location for the purpose of collection and recycling. Unless otherwise provided by contract, all recyclable materials which are segregated from nonrecyclable waste for the purpose of recycling, and placed at a designated collection location, may not be removed by anyone other than the franchised recyclable materials collector or owner. (Ord. 1629, 6-23-2009)