No person shall place, throw or sweep on any sidewalks, or in any of the streets or open lots of the city, any filth, trash, glass, paper, boxes, nails, pieces of board, shingles, barrel hoops, watermelon rinds, or any other thing of nuisance whatever, but the same shall be deposited in receptacles placed on the streets in convenient places for removal by the city. Nothing contained in this section shall prohibit the piling of boxes, barrels and the like, not emitting an offensive odor and not having a tendency to injure the public health, on open lots for a period of one week, but in no case shall any boxes, barrels or other debris of any nature be allowed to remain longer than one week.
(1997 Code, § 95.03) Penalty, see § 95.99