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REFUSE § 20-31
<br />"Public highway" means all roads, highways, alleys, streets, ways, lanes, bikeways,
<br />and bridges open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel that is
<br />acquired or built by the government.
<br />"Public property" means all real property owned by the County.
<br />"Refuse" means any discarded or disposable matter, including garbage, rubbish and
<br />swill.
<br />"Rubbish" means solid waste or rejected material including paper and cardboard
<br />cartons, straw, excelsior, rags, clothes, shoes, bottles, tin cans, china, glass, metalware,
<br />leaves, grass, tree branches, and any other material of similar character but not
<br />including material such as tree stumps, lumber or iron pipes exceeding five feet in
<br />length, concrete blocks and tiles, cement, acids, iceboxes, refrigerators, ranges, radios,
<br />television sets, phonographs, bedsteads, bed springs, tables, sofas, chairs, and other
<br />furniture, water heaters, water tanks, sinks, and other similar material or equipment of
<br />a weighty or bulky nature.
<br />"Swill" means any food waste which is fit for animal consumption.
<br />"Transfer station" means a facility designed to collect household rubbish from the
<br />surrounding community and to transport this refuse to a suitable disposal facility.
<br />(1983 CC, c 20, art 3, sec 20-31; am 1988, ord 88-160, sec 1; am 1994, ord 94-87, sec 2;
<br />am 2001, ord 01-108, sec 1; am 2002, ord 02-66, secs 1, 2 and 3; am 2012, ord 12-155,
<br />secs 1 and 2; am 2018, ord 18-82, sec 1.)
<br />Section 20-32. Removal required; disposal; drainage of liquids.
<br />(a) Every owner or occupant of any residence or business building or premises within
<br />the County shall remove or cause to be removed to the County dumping grounds
<br />any refuse from any residence or business building or premises.
<br />(b) This section shall not prevent any owner or occupant from disposing of refuse
<br />within the owner's premises by burning, burying, or destroying the refuse in
<br />compliance with any applicable statute, ordinance, and rule and regulations.
<br />(c) Any garbage or swill, prior to its removal to the County dumping grounds, shall be
<br />drained of all liquid.
<br />(1983 CC, c 20, art 3, sec 20-32.)
<br />Section 20-33. Receptacle specifications.
<br />Any garbage or swill shall be contained in a leak -proof metal or plastic receptacle
<br />and shall be securely covered at all times so as to exclude insects and animals. Any
<br />rubbish, except hedge cuttings, stumps, branches, banana leaves, palm and coconut
<br />leaves or other similar material, shall be contained in a metal or wood receptacle, or in
<br />a paper or a cardboard carton of sufficient strength to adequately contain the contents
<br />therein.
<br />(1983 CC, c 20, art 3, sec 20-33.)
<br />Section 20-34. Location of receptacles; placement for collection.
<br />(a) Any refuse and receptacle shall be kept on private premises and shall not be placed
<br />upon any sidewalk or government right-of-way for collection purposes, except any
<br />refuse receptacle that may be placed and affixed on any sidewalk or government
<br />right-of-way for public use.
<br />20-7 SUPP. 5 (1-2019)
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