Legal Documents of Sweetwater

The disposal of refuse in any quantity by any person in any place, public or private, other than at the site or sites designated by the duly constituted authority of the city is expressly prohibited. The disposal of all refuse and garbage shall be by methods approved by the health officer. Such methods shall provide the maximum practical rodent, insect, and nuisance control at the place of disposal. No garbage shall be fed to swine unless said garbage has first been heated to at least 212° F. and held there at least thirty (30) minutes in apparatus and by methods approved by the health officer. Animal offal and carcasses of dead animals shall be buried or cremated under circumstances approved by the health officer or shall be rendered at forty (40) psi. steam pressure or higher, or similarly heated by equivalent cooking. (1982 Code, § 8-308)