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Flexible dumpster(s) or compact dumpster(s) do not have a tight-fitting cover and are allowed for use by the property owner who has contracted services through a licensed contractor for hauling such items and must meeting the following requirements: (A) Only refuse of solid physical form or matter shall be placed or disposed into the flexible dumpster(s) or compact dumpster(s), such as construction or demolition debris, discarded household goods or wares, cardboard or packaging waste, or the like; and (B) Flexible dumpster(s) or compact dumpster(s) shall not exceed a five (5) cubic yard capacity; and (C) Shall not be placed within the roadway surface of any street or block any portion of a sidewalk; park or trail; and (D) Shall not remain on a property for more than 14 days from the date it was placed outdoors at the property and be collected by a waste hauler or otherwise removed within one week of the container being filled; and (E) All refuse shall be completely and securely placed within the container; no material shall be sticking out or exceeding above the top of the container sides. No refuse placed in the container shall exceed outside the container beyond the plane of the street curb line. It is the property owner/occupant responsibility to ensure any refuse that falls or is blown out of the container is promptly collected/picked up and properly stored as any refuse is required to be stored. § 50.03 MUNICIPAL CONTRACTING. The City Council, at its discretion, may contract with a single waste hauler to pick up and dispose of waste and recyclables from properties in the city. The contract for the collection of garbage in the city shall be for terms and upon such conditions as the City Council may from time to time determine. For those classes of property covered by municipal contract, it shall be unlawful for any other person or persons, except the contracted hauler, to move or carry away any refuse or recyclables, except from his or her own premises, with special permission of the City Council. It shall be lawful in case any person shall default in the payment of the garbage collection fees due the contracted municipal hauler, for the City Council to collect delinquent hauler fees from the person or the owner of the real property from which the waste was collected by civil action or by assessing the same against the real estate. § 50.04 REFUSE ACCUMULATION; NUISANCE - VIOLATION A violation of this chapter is a public nuisance. When the city finds that a person has violated a prohibition or failed to meet a requirement of this section, the person is deemed to have created a public nuisance subject to abatement and assessment, as provided in Chapter 91. In addition to any order issued pursuant to Chapter 91.07 through 91.08 Ord. #1, adopted 2/27/1959; Ord.2d, 116, adopted 10/13/2021. 28 ΋tğŭĻ