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ORDINANCE No. -7' (> 7
AN ORDINANCE OF TIlE CITY OF OCOEE, ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA, PERTAINING
TO GARBAGE, INDUSTRIAL WASTE AND REFUSE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF TIlE CITY OF OCOEE:
Section 1. The Sanitation Department on Monday and Friday of each
week shall make garbage pickup.
Section 2. Every housekeeper, store keeper, occupant or owner of
premises having, keeping or offering for collection any garbage
refuse shall provide for that purpose one or more water-tight plastic or
metal receptacles having proper handles and a tight-fitting cover
of a capacity of twenty gallons of a type approved by the Sanitary
Department.
Section 3. All garbage receptacles shall be placed at the rear
of the premises or in a location designated by the Sanitary Department.
Section 4. A fee of one ($1.00) dollar per month shall be charged
for the pickup of ORe eft ...,[ garbage.....,a:1lJt-::;:t.H:~~~,uJ~l:u,L~, ~"
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Section 5. Residents outside the City who desire garbage collection
services shall pay a monthly fee of two ($2.00) dollars for the
pickup of 1'- ~ 'Cll~ garbage....ai~...<:: ($L..ii..l_,d61:1"%r'''"iifofi'~lfrtt'::-alt-
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Section 6. It shall be the duty of every occupant, or owner of
any parcel of ground within the corporate limits of the City to
keep any and every house, building, establishment, lot, yard and
all ground occupied or owned by him at all times free from filth,
carrion or impure or unwholesome matters of any kind.
Section 7. Industrial waste shall be sorted, held, kept, collected,
and removed by the owner thereof, or by the owner of the premises,
subject to the regulations of the health officer, and in a manner
approved by the Sanitary Department.
Section 8. It shall be the duty of the Sanitary Department to
prescribe rules and regulations appropriate to the enforcement of
the sections of this ordinance.
Section 9. Any owner or occupant of premises who shall suffer to
remain thereon any decaying flesh or vegetable matter or other
noisome thing whlch is obnoxious to neighbors or passers-by, or
which endangers the health of the public, shall be ordered by the
Sani tary Depar'tment to remove the same wi thin twenty-four hours.
Section 10. No person shall keep a deposit of green or dry hides,
or filthy rags, bones, guano or any other matter or things of of-
fensive or noisome odors in his place of business. The Sanitary
Department shall order any person keeping such nuisances to remove
the same within twenty-four hours.
Section 11. Whenever any carcass shall be found calculated to
annoy or endanger the health of any person the Sanitary Department
shall order the owner thereof, or of the premises whereon it is
found, to remove it within six hours.
Section 12. No paper, handbills, leaves, lawn trimmings, brush,
sidewalk sweepings or trash of any description shall be thrown on
the street or be deposited or allowed to accumulate in the gutters
of any street.
Section 13. No person shall discharge on any street or alley or
on his own, or the premises of another, any foul or fetid water or
fluid substance, or throw thereon any decaying flesh or vegetable
or. other offensive or noisome mat.ter.
Section 14. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person, to place or
deposit or cause to be placed or deposited upon any of the streets,
sidewalks, parkways, thoroughfares, public parks or other public ~r
places of the City, any tree trunks or limbs, any trash, debris,
papers, litter, or rubbish or ashes or other discarded matter of
whatever kind, except as hereinafter specifically provided.
(b) Any sweepings, leaves, debris and trash resulting ~r
from ordinary trimming, care and upkeep of lawns, yards, shrubs,
trees and hedges may be deposited for collection in an easily ac-
cessible location as near the street right of way as practicable,
on the property of the owner, tenant or person in possession thereof
or on the parkway immediately in front of and contiguous to his
property. Tree trunks and limbs resulting from ordinary trimming,
care and upkeep may be deposited for collection. c.\ii4 sl'lil~ll He t ax r
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Papers, rags, magazines and the like may be deposited for collection
in the places provided in this ordinance provided that they are
securely tied in bundles not exceeding fifty pounds in weight, or
provided such matter is stored in strudy containers which will, in
all ordinary weather conditions, prevent said matter from being
scattered about by the elements or animals. Any or all of the mat-
ter permitted under this paragraph is to be placed upon parkways
immediately in front of and contiguous to the property of others
provided that the written consent of the other owner, tenant or
person in possession of such property is obtained prior to the
placing upon the parkway immediately in front of and contiguous to
the property of such others. Nothing herein shall be construed to
permit the placing of tree trunks or limbs resulting from the
felling or removal of large trees or large numbers of trees or from
the clearing of lots or other areas.
(c) The matter permitted to be placed in parkways
under paragraph (b) above, shall be neatly placed, and wherever
possible, such matter shall be placed so as to allow convenient
passage of persons and conveyances lawfully in such parkways.
(d) It shall be unlawful for any person to disturb or
to scatter or spread about or cause to be disturbed or to scatter
or to be spread about any of the matter described in paragraph (b)
above.
(e) For the purposes of this section, a parkway is de-
fined as that portion of the street right of way paralleling any
public thoroughfare between the curb line and the abutting property
line.
Section 15. It shall be unlawful for any person to permit or allow
any of the debris, trash or rubbish mentioned in section 14 of this
ordinance, to accumulate or remain upon any private property located
in the City when the same is hazardous to the health or safety of
any of the inhabitants of the City.
Section 16. Any person, firm, corporation, partnership, or other
legal entity violating any provision of this ordinance shall upon
conviction thereof be punished by a fine of not more than $500.00
or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding 60 days or by both such
fine and imprisonment.
Sec~ion 17. Garbage shall mean all kitchen or table refuse, swill,
offal, trash or refuse material of every kind which contains any
animal or vegetable matter tending to rapid decay or putrefaction,
or any such matter which has decay or putrefied.
Section 18. Industrial waste shall mean all waste material, empty
boxes or barrels, garbage and refuse of every description which
shall originate, be kept, held or ~ollected at business houses or
places of business, and all building material waste resulting from
erecting, removing, repairing or razing buildings; all waste material
from printing offices, office buildings, hotels, restaurants or
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boarding houses; offal and floor sweepings from stockyards, livery,
feed or sale stables; offal and floor sweepings from poultry houses
and meat markets; ashes from steam boilers; or, other trash or matter
originating in a business or industrial establishment not intended
for use or sale.
Section 19. Refuse shall mean any combustible trash, paper, rags,
pasteboard boxes, berry boxes, whole or broken bottles, and all other
trash 'or discarded materials not containing vegetable or animal
matter tending to rapid decay or putrefaction.
Section 20. This ordinance shall become effective immediately upon
its passage by the council and approval by the Mayor.
Section 21. All Ordinances and parts of Ordinances in conflict
herewith are hereby repealed.
Section 22. Should any portion of this Ordinance be held invalid,
then such portions as are not declared to be invalid shall remain
in full force and effect.
~Done in o~;n session/at Ocoee, Orange County, Florida, this
L-day of L/LLC.E.n'vb-e,'./ , 1960.
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