Gilroy Municipal Code Div. 3 Accumulations

It shall be the duty of every owner, tenant, lessee or occupant of any private dwelling house, or the proprietor, manager, owner or lessee of any hotel, restaurant, cafe, boardinghouse, rooming house or other public place of business in the city to provide standard thirty or thirty-two gallon plastic or metal garbage receptacles with cover of the same, not to exceed fifty (50) pounds weight when loaded, or approved garbage and rubbish bins for receiving and holding all the garbage and rubbish produced, created or accumulated upon such premises between the times for the collection of garbage and rubbish as provided in this chapter, and shall deposit such garbage and rubbish therein. All such receptacles shall be at all times kept in a sanitary condition and shall be placed for collection in the alley behind the premises, or if there is no alley access, then on the front curb, or such other place as may be approved by the director of public works or the garbage contractor, so as to be readily accessible for removing and emptying the same, but shall not be placed within the limits of any street in the city, or anywhere so as to constitute a nuisance.

**State law references—**Garbage receptacles generally, H. & S. C., §§ 17809, 17810.

(Ord. No. 428, § 3; Ord. No. 76-4, § 2, 2-17-1976; Ord. No. 88-6, § 1, 5-16-1988)

Days for the collection of garbage in various parts of the city shall be established from time to time by the director of public works in cooperation with the garbage contractor. Receptacles shall be placed in the proper area for collection the evening prior to collection and shall be removed the morning after.

(Ord. No. 76-4, § 2, 2-17-1976)

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**Editor’s note—**Ord. No. 76-4 repealed former § 12.19, pertaining to the collection of rubbish and dirt, derived from Ord. No. 428, and added a new § 12.18 as herein set out.

It shall be unlawful for any person, owner or occupant of any building, lot or premises in the city to suffer, allow or permit to collect or remain upon such lot or premises or in such building any rubbish, including dry grass or weeds within two (2) feet of any fence or building. Such rubbish must be collected and removed within the time and in the manner herein provided.

**State law references—**Authority of city to declare weeds and rubbish along streets, etc., nuisances, Gov. C., § 39561.

(Ord. No. 428, § 7)

Any person who shall fail to cause all rubbish, waste material, dry grass, weeds or foul growths which become a menace to public safety and increase the fire hazard, to be removed from any lot, piece or parcel of land within the city within eight (8) hours after having been notified to do so by the chief of police or the chief of the fire department of the city shall be guilty of an infraction.

(Ord. No. 294, § 1; Ord. No. 338, § 1; Ord. No. 77-15, § 7, 4-18-1977)