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`'~` ORDINANCE A10, 45
AN ORDINANCE REGULA`1~ING 'IrHE COLLECTION i?.P1D DISPOSAL OF REFUSE I~JITHIN
THE CITY OF HILO; REGULATING THE DISPOSAL OF DEAD ANIIviALS AND OTHER
MATERIALS PJITHIN TF-IE COUNTY OF HAWAII; PROVIDING PENALTIES THEREFOR,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE' BOARD 0r' SUPERVISCI~S CF TrIE COUNTY OF HAWAII;
SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS. Unless otherwisf: expressly stated,
whenever used in this Ordinance the following terms shall be taken
to have the following meaning:
A. Garbage. Shall mean and include all organic wastes not
fit for animal consumption.
B. Rubbish. Shall mean and include solid waste or rejected
material including, without limiting the generality thereof, paper
and cardboard cartons, straw, excelsior, rags, clothes, shoes,
bottles, tin cans, china, glass, metalware, leaves, grass, tree
branches, tree stumps, and any other material of similar character;
but not including such materials as lumber or iron pipes exceeding
five feet in length, concrete blocks and tiles, cement, acids, ice
boxes, refrigerators, ranges, radios, television sets, phonographs,
bedsteads, bed springs, tables, sofas, chairs, and other furniture,
water heaters, water tanks, sinks and other similar materials or
equipment of a weighty or bulky nature.
C. Swill. Shall mean and include all food wastes which are
fit for animal consump~ion.
D. Refuse. Shall mean and include all discarded and disposable
matter, includinc, garbage, rubbish and swill as above defined.
SECTION 2. REMOVAL OF GARBAGE, RUBBISH AND S41ILL. Every
householder or occupant of any residence or business building or
premises within the City of Hilo, County of Hawaii, shall remove or
cause to be removed to the County Dumping Grounds all refuse from
any residence or business building or premises; provided, however,
that nothing herein shall prevent any such householder or- occupant
from disposing of such refuse within his premises by burning, burying
or destroying the same.
All garbage and swill, prior to its removal to the County
Dumping Grounds, shall be drained of all liquids,
SECTION 3. RECEPTACLES. All garbage and swill shall be
contained in leak-proof metal receptacles and shall be securely
covered at all times so as to exclude insects and animals. All
rubbish, except hedge cuttings, stumps, k~ranches, banana leaves,
palm and cocoanut leaves and other similar materials, shall be
contained in metal or wood receptacles, or in paper or cardboard
cartons of sufficient strength to adequately contain the contents
therein.
SECTION 4. LOCATION OF REFUSE AND ECEPTACLES. All refuse
and receptacles, as hereinbefore mentioned, shall be kept on private
premises and shall not be placed upon any sidewalk or government
right of way for collection purposes, excepting however, refuse
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receptacles that may be pJ.accd and affixed on any sidewalk or
government right of way fer public use; }-,rovide:d, however, that for
the purposes of collection, such rcfus:: and receptacles may be placed
in that area of the private premises adjacent to the sidewalk or the
government right of way and the refuse and the receptacles so placed
adjacent to the sidewalk or the government .right of way shall be
placed so as not to ccnstitute or contri~~ute to the creation of a
nuisance or to the creation of ;~ pedestrian or traffic hazard,
SECTION 5, ;,ICE,NSh I2S~UIRED. It shall be unlawful for any
person, firm, or corporation to engage in any business involving
the collection and removal of any refuse from any premises within
the limits of the City of Hilo, County of- Hawaii, without having
first secured a license from the Treas~_trer of the County of Hawaii
so to do,
SECTION G, VEHICLES FOR REiIOVIldG REFUSE. All vehicles used
for the collection and removal of refuse shall be kept in a clean,
inoffensive and sanitary condition. All refuse shall be handled
and hauled in such a manner so as to prevent the scattering,
spilling or leaking of the same,
SECTION 7, DEAD ANI7ALS. Every owner of dead cattle, horses,
mules, goats, dogs, cats and similar animals within the County of
Hawaii shall properly bury, burn or dispose of such dead animals
within a reasonable tune after death, or before the same shall
constitute a nuisance.
SECTION 8. ?^,22ECKED, NOId-OPERATIONAL AUTOl;iOBILES AND SCRAP
IRON. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation
within the County of Hawaii to leave, abandon or place wrecked or
non-operational autornol:~iles or construction equipment or parts or
portions of such. automobiles or construction equipment, or scrap
iron, or other similar materials, upon any part or parts of the
public streets, roads, or highways or upon any premises of another.
SECTIOTJ 9. RELIOVAL OF DOORS OF ABAI?DONED REFRIGERA7.'ORS, ETC.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation within the
County of Hawaii to abandon refrigerators, ice boxes, wardrobe
trunks, or any other container, equipment or appliance having self-
locking doors without first removing and detaching the doors or
covers from the same.
SECTION 10. EXPLOSIVES, ALii.IUI?ITIOid, ETC . It shall be unlawful
for any person, firm or corporation caithin the "County of Hawaii to
dump, place or remove to any County Dumping grounds any explosives,
blasting materials, fuses, live ammunition or any other substance
or material that may explode upon contact with heat or fire,
SECTION 11. DUT:iPItdG REFUSE IId VACAPl'T LOTS, ETC. It shall be
unlawful for any person, firm or corporation within the County of
Hawaii to dump or place refuse in or upon any vacant lot, public
place or in or upon the premises of another,
SECTION 12, PEP}ALTY. Any person violating any of the
provisions of this Ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeancr and
upon conviction shall be punished by a fine not exceeding Five
Hundred Dollars (:500.00),
SECTION 13, SEVERABILITY. If any section, sentence, clause or
phrase of this Ordinance, or the application thereof to any person or
circumstance is for any reason held to be unconstitutional or invalid,
the remaining portions thereof or of the portion concerned to any
other persons or circumstances shall not be affected,
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