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Yazoo City |
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Code of Ordinances |
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Chapter 13. HEALTH AND SANITATION |
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Article II. GARBAGE, TRASH, JUNK, WEEDS |
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Division 1. GENERALLY |
§ 13-21. Placing of trees, limbs, trash, etc., on or in streets, sidewalks, gutters or ditches—Generally.
(a)
It shall be unlawful for any person in the city to place, cause, permit or allow any trees, limbs, shrubs, dirt, trash, paper, grass or other waste matter or material to be placed upon any paved or improved portion of any street, sidewalk or alley or in any ditch, gutter or drainage system of the city.
(b)
It shall be unlawful for any person in the city to place, cause, permit or allow any trees, limbs, shrubs, trash building material or waste matter or material having a length of more than six feet or a weight of more than 60 pounds to be placed upon any unimproved portion of any street, sidewalk, or alley for removal by the city or its employees.
(c)
The city shall have the right to refuse to pick up, remove, haul or otherwise dispose of, any trees, limbs, shrubs, dirt, trash, paper, grass, building material or waste matter or material that may be placed in a city right-of-way in violation of subsections (a) and (b) hereof.
(Code 1962, § 12-7; Ord. of 6-24-68, § 1; Ord. of 5-12-80, §§ 1—3)