Title 6 SANITATION AND HEALTH

Chapter 6.09 GARBAGE

6.09.050 Rubbish receptacle required.

It shall be the duty of every tenant, lessee and occupant of every private dwelling house and of the keeper of every hotel, restaurant, eating house, boarding house, apartment house or other building where rubbish will accumulate, to provide boxes, barrels, or other receptacles to be kept on said premises sufficient to hold the rubbish which would ordinarily accumulate on such premises in one week's time, and all rubbish accumulating on such premises shall be placed in such boxes, barrels or other receptacles. Said boxes, barrels, or receptacles shall be so placed as to be readily accessible to the collectors for the removal of rubbish therefrom. No one of said boxes, barrels or receptacles shall have a capacity exceeding one hundred gallons. The Health Officer, with the approval of the Mayor, shall be the exclusive judge of the sufficiency of such boxes, barrels or receptacles.