Oakdale Municipal Code Art. I In General

[Ord. No. 371, § 1.]

No person in an aircraft shall throw out, drop or deposit within the city any litter, handbill or any other object.

For the purposes of this section, "aircraft" is any contrivance now known or hereafter invented, used or designated for navigation or for flight in the air. The word "aircraft" shall include helicopters and lighter-than-air dirigibles and balloons.

[Ord. No. 244, §§ 1 to 4; Ord. No. 363, § 1; Ord. No. 590, § 1; Ord. No. 602, § 2; Ord. No. 630, § 1.]

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to burn trash or any other materials in any street, alley, vacant lot or premises within the city. The term "trash" shall be construed as meaning combustibles of every nature and kind.

(b) This section shall not prevent agricultural burning done under applicable state and local statutes and ordinances after the issuance of an agricultural burning permit, nor combustion for the preparation of human foods or heating of buildings and structures.

(c) This section shall not prevent burning done by an officer of the city fire department, or under permit issued by the fire chief, in the following circumstances:

(1) For the purpose of prevention of a fire hazard which cannot be abated by other means.

(2) For instruction of public employees or members of the city volunteer fire department in the methods of fighting fire.

(3) The burning of combustibles pursuant to permit on property used for industrial purposes for the purpose of instruction in methods of fire suppression and utilization of fire fighting equipment.

[Ord. No. 244, § 6.]

It shall be unlawful for any person to keep, accumulate or permit to be kept or accumulated any oily rags or oily waste, except when in actual use, in any building or enclosure unless the same are kept in a metal receptacle or can fitted with a self closing lid or cover, the receptacle being of durable material.

[Ord. No. 244, §§ 5, 7.]

It shall be unlawful for any person to permit the accumulation of trash to become or remain offensive, unsightly or unsafe to public health or hazardous from fire.

It shall be unlawful for any person to permit the accumulation of trash to remain for more than forty-eight hours in any alley, or premises in Fire Zone One.