Sutter Creek Municipal Code Art. IV Prohibited Acts

No person, other than those persons permitted by the terms of this chapter, shall collect and/or dispose of refuse, for commercial gain, in, along or over any public street, alley or highway in the city. No two or more owners of separate properties shall organize to jointly or collectively remove refuse from their respective properties.

(Ord. 332, 2009)

No person shall place refuse upon the land of another, or in the refuse receptacle of another, or upon premises other than those from which refuse originated, for the purpose of making such refuse available for collection and disposal. This section shall not prohibit the deposit of refuse at a duly permitted transfer station.

(Ord. 332, 2009)

No person shall place refuse or a refuse receptacle, including dumpsters, upon a vacant lot or any site from which the refuse was not originally generated. This includes property owned, leased, or rented by the person generating the refuse.

(Ord. 332, 2009)

No person shall place for collection and disposal, or place in public view, any item other than refuse, bulk items or other waste, including cardboard or any other paper product and carpeting, carpet pads and associated flooring materials.

Neither the city, nor its authorized franchisee, shall collect or dispose of any item other than refuse or other waste; provided that this section shall not prohibit the deposit and disposal of any item at a duly permitted transfer station.

(Ord. 332, 2009)

No person shall throw, place, scatter, dump or otherwise deposit any refuse or other waste in or upon the private property of another. No person shall throw, place, scatter, dump or otherwise deposit any refuse or other waste in or upon any public property.

(Ord. 332, 2009)

No person shall burn refuse within the city unless such act complies with all applicable laws of each and every jurisdictional agency.

(Ord. 332, 2009)

No person shall render any meat, grease, fat, offal, bones, animals, animal parts, animal substances, garbage, fish or parts of fish, or distill bones or reduce refuse, offal or dead animals or operate or conduct any plant or establishment for the distillation of bones, or the rendering of fat, or further reduction of refuse, offal or dead animals.

(Ord. 332, 2009)

No person shall bring into or cause to be brought into the city any refuse or receive or possess any refuse brought into the city from beyond the city limits; provided, that the provisions of this section shall not apply to refuse being transported directly to, and received at, a duly permitted transfer station.

(Ord. 332, 2009)

No person shall keep or maintain any refuse or other waste inside any building in violation of any provision of law.

(Ord. 332, 2009)

No person shall connect or cause to be connected to any residential unit not then receiving such services any water or electrical service without first obtaining from the city manager or his/her designee a permit therefore. Such permit shall be issued by the city manager or his/her designee upon request of any person without fee. Refuse collection fees shall be charged for service to such residential unit upon the issuance of such a permit or occupancy of such unit, whichever first occurs. The sole purpose of the permit required by this section is to advise the city manager or his/her designee that the residential unit should be charged refuse collection fees, and such permit shall not authorize the connection of any water or electrical services to any premises in violation of any other provision of law.

(Ord. 332, 2009)

No person shall sell, or act as an agent for the purpose of selling, any parcel of real property without first disclosing, in writing, the amount or amounts, if any, of unpaid fees due and owing for refuse collection services made available to such parcel of real property.

(Ord. 332, 2009)

All violations of any portion of this chapter are hereby declared to be a nuisance and may be abated as such in the manner provided by law.

(Ord. 332, 2009)