Legal Documents of Mountain City

Every owner or tenant of property shall maintain yards and/or vacant lots in a manner as not to be a menace to public health; but in a clean and sanitary condition, free from refuse or debris which might provide harborage or a breeding place for rodents, vermin, insects or snakes.

The following is used to define refuse, weeds, junk, trash or garbage as used in this chapter, whether individually, jointly, and collectively mean any waste resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking, and consumption of food, and waste from handling, storage, and use of produce foods, any combustible trash, paper, cartons, boxes, barrels, wood, excelsior, tree branches, yard trimmings, wood furniture, bedding, metals, tin cans, metal furniture, dirt, small quantities of rock and pieces of concrete, glass, crockery, other mineral waste, rubbish, leaves, cinders, lumber, scraps, shavings, residue from fires, cloth products, and any and all other organic and inorganic materials which have weight or occupy space. (1994 Code, § 13-107)