(a)   Garbage - The putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food, and also bakery and market waste from the handling, and storage for sale of bakery goods or produce.

(b)   Person - Any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company, or organization of any kind, or a governmental body or agency.

(c)   Premises - A lot, plot, or parcel of land including the buildings and structures thereon.

(d)   Refuse - All garbage and trash.

(e)   Storage Container - The container in which refuse is to be placed by the occupant of any premises.

(f)   Trash - All putrescible and non-putrescible wastes consisting of miscellaneous materials including among other things, paper, tin cans, glass, crockery, fabric, coffee grounds, utensils, pliable cartons, boxes, excelsior, packing, sweepings of dust and dirt, grass trimmings, leaves, wood, non-pliable cratings, boxes or cartons, barrels, wood shavings, metal shavings, shrubbery and tree trimming, discarded furniture, bedding, tires, metals, junk, rock, concrete, masonry, ashes, clinkers, and other discarded materials, provided that trash shall not include any materials resulting from building excavation, demolition, or remodeling work, or any construction work, nor shall it include stumps, tree trunks, tree trimmings, and limbs resulting from operations of professional tree trimmers, or the tree trimmings resulting from the cutting down, or the topping of any tree, regardless of who performs the work, nor shall it include refuse resulting from tornado, cyclone, extreme wind storms, ice storms, flood, or other act of God, or the burning of any building.

(Ord. 702, Sec. 1)

(a)   It shall be unlawful for any person to throw, place, deposit or allow to accumulate, leave or cause to be thrown, placed, deposited, or left upon any sidewalk, gutter, street, alley, thoroughfare, park, other public grounds, or any city-owned property, any garbage, trash, cast-off machinery, abandoned automobile bodies, tires, junk, filth, dirt, grass, grass cuttings, yard clippings, leaves or litter of any kind except by depositing the same in containers provided specifically for such purpose.

(b)   Any person violating any of the terms and provisions of this section shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined in any sum not exceeding $100.00 for a first offense and in any sum not less than $100.00 but not exceeding $200.00 for a second or subsequent offense.

(Ord. 702, Sec. 8; Ord. 1114; Code 2021)

Nothing in this article shall prevent any person under a permit from the city, from encumbering the streets or alleys with building materials or earth as may be necessary for the purpose of construction, erection, adding to, remodeling, or repairing any building or structure or resulting from demolition operations, provided, however, that in the event of such encumbering of the streets or alleys, the contractor, owner, or occupant shall remove any and all materials remaining within 10 days from the completion of the work, and shall leave the street or alley in the same condition that they were in prior to such use.

(Ord. 702, Sec. 9)

It shall be unlawful for any person to bury any garbage as herein defined on public or private property without first having obtained a permit from the city council.

(Ord. 702, Sec. 16)

It shall be unlawful for any person to kindle or maintain any bonfire or authorize any such fire to be kindled or maintained on or in any public sidewalk, street, alley, road or other public ground except in authorized fireplaces in park locations, unless permission from the fire department shall have first been obtained.

(Ord. 702, Sec. 18; Code 2021)

No person shall kindle or maintain any bonfire, nor permit any such fire to be kindled or maintained on any private property within the established fire limits of the city except in an incinerator properly and safely constructed within a structure and approved by the fire department of the city.

No person shall kindle or maintain nor permit to be kindled or maintained outside the established fire limits and within the city any bonfire, unless such fire shall be contained in an incinerator constructed and located in accordance with requirements of the city fire department.

(Ord. 702, Sec. 19; Code 2021)