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1783.05 RECEPTACLES FOR GARBAGE, REFUSE AND LITTER (a) the owner, agen; lessee or occupant of any dwelling unit where refuse is produced or permitted to accumulate shall provide an adequate number of containers far such refuse. Each container sha0 be rz6~proof, insect-proof watertight strucNrally strong [o withstand hahdling stress and easily filled, empfied and cleaned, Each container shall be provided with tight fitting covers and shall be maintained at all Yimes clean and' in sanitary and safe condition. Such container shall have a capacity of not less than iwenTy nor more than thirty-two gallons and shall be provided with suitable handles (b) For each tenement apartment house using Ciry refuse disposal, there shall be at least two such receptacles for each apartment unit (c) Each and every hotel, restaman; cafe, lunch room, grocery, store, market workshop or factory shall be provided with one or more of such receptacles. No garbage shall be placed or permitted to remain elsewhere than in such receptacles. 1783.06 COVERS FOR GARBAGE RECEPTACLES. No occupant or person in possession or control of any,building provided with any such receptacle shall fail to keep the same tightly wvered a[ all times except when garbage is being placed therein or removed therefrom. 1783.07 USE OF RECEPTACLES REQUIRED{ DEPOSIT9IN STREETS AND SIDEWALKS PROHIBITED. No garbage, rubbish or litter shall be placed or permitted to remain in any building or upon such premises, elsewhere than in suitable receptacles, nor shat l any rubbish, dirt or waste be swept into or placed upon any street or sidewalk. 1783.08 CONTENTS OF RECEPTACLES. No substance other than garbage shall be placed in receptacles maintained for public garbage collection, and nothing but rubbish shalt be placed in receptacles maintained For public rubbish collection. 1783.09 REMOVAL OF CONTENTS.. Contents of any receptacles for garbage, ashes or rubbish shall no[ be removed in any manner or at any time so as to be or constitute a nuisance. 1783.10 LOCATION OF RECEPTACLES. (a) No person shall place or maintain any receptacle for garbage, ashes or rubbish so that it wiB be or constitute a nuisance. (b) Receptacles for garbage, ashes or rubbish maintained for public collection shall be so placed as N he readily accessible for colleotion. (c) [n an NR, MH, Cl, C2, C3 and I zoning district, no person shall store refuse or garbage lawfully retained on the premises pending disposition thereof unless same is stared out of view of the public right of way, within a permanent building or structure or is shielded in a manner approved by the Architectural Board of Review (d) The Health Commissioner and the Building Commissioner are hereby charged with the enforcement of subsection (c) hereof 1783.11 MANURE PITS OR 11OXES. The owner, agen; lessee or person in possession or control of any building where one or more horses, mules, donkeys, cows, calves, swine, sheep, goats or Fowl are kept, shall provide a box or pit of sufficient capacity to hold all manure produced or brought thereon Such box or pit shall be tightly constructed of metal or masonry materials, shall be provided with a closely fitting vermin-proof lid, shall be watertight and at least every thirty days shall be disinfected with suitable chemicals. No manure, pending the removal thereof, shall be placed or kept elsewhere than in a box or pit of the kind herein described except in the case of manure piled for fertilizing purposes, which shall be spread upon removal from the conveyance. 1783.12 REMOVAL OF MANURE. All manure shall be removed from such box or pit, and from premises in or upon which such box orpit is located, at least once each week. 1783.13 MAINTENANCE OF PITS OR BOXES. No person in possession or control of any premises containing any such pit or box shall fail to keep the same tightly covered at all times, except when manure is being put into or removed therefrom, and to keep such pit or box in good repair and so as not to leak. 1783.14 LOADING MANORS AND GARBAGE UPON RAILROAD CARS. Garbage or manure may fie loaded upon railroad cars in the City, but only for immediate transportation. Each place where railroad cars are so loaded sha0 be a[ least 500 feet distant from every building used in whole or in part for human habitation or as a place where Food far human consumption is made, placed, kept or sold. 1783.15 TRANSPORTING GARBAGE; VEHICLE REQUIREMENTS. No person, Erm or corporation shall use or suffer or permit to be used any vehicle to convey garbage unless such vehicle is tightly constmcted and equipped with a closely fitting cover, and unless such vehicle is tightly covered at all times except when the same is being loazled or unloaded; nor shall any person, firm or corporation load or drive or cause to be loaded or driven on any thoroughfare any such vehicle containing garbage so as to suffer or permit any part ofthe contents to fall, spill ar leak therefrom 1783.16 TRANSPORTING MANURE; VEHICLE REQUIREMENTS. No person, firm or corporation shall use or suffer or permit to be used any vehicle to convey manure unless such vehicle is equipped with a canvas cover that is securely fastened to such vehicle so as to completely cover all of the manure contained therein, at all times, except when the contents thereof are being loaded or unloaded; nor shall any person, firm or corporation load or drive or suffer or permit to be loaded or driven on any thoroughfare any such vehicle containing manure so as to suffer or permit any par[ of [he contents of such vehicle to fall, spill or leak therefrom. 1783.17 GARBAGE AND MANORS VERICLEB AS NUISANCES. No owner or person in possession or control of a vehicle used for carrying or transferring garbage or manure shall permit such vehicle to stand or be stored or kept in such manner or for such lengthof time that it will consttu[e a nuisance, 26