All licensed commercial garbage haulers are required to have watertight vehicles or containers which shall be permanently covered with no openings on top that would allow the contents to escape. All metal boxes are required and shall be equipped with metal doors which shall be in a closed position when the truck is in motion. Containers must be attached to the frame when in transport. Vehicles and containers must be manufactured or designed for garbage or construction and demolition debris hauling. Pickup trucks containing dumpsters, open-framed boxes, and wood-framed trucks are prohibited. The vehicles or containers shall be thoroughly washed at those times as may be directed by the city or as may be necessary to keep the vehicles or containers in proper sanitary condition. The vehicles or containers transporting garbage and rubbish, construction and demolition debris, or animal waste shall be so loaded that all the material shall be carried within the metal containers.
(1992 Code, § 18-53) (Ord. 111-89, passed 10-16-1989; Ord. 149-95, passed 11-20-1995; Ord. 15-03, passed 2-10-2003; Ord. 63-06, passed 5-15-2006; Ord. 107-16, passed 10-17-2016)
Cross-reference:
Motor vehicles, see ch. 73