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 Revere
 Code of Ordinances
 Title 8. HEALTH AND SAFETY
 Chapter 8.04. OFFENSES GENERALLY*

  § 8.04.025. Storage of wastes placed out for collection.  

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  • The board of health and the department of public works shall require that containers used for the collection of refuse within the city of Revere comply with the following standards:

    A.

    All household waste, refuse, solid waste, garbage, litter, junk or other forms of rubbish set out for curbside collection shall be stored in rodent-proof containers and/or rodent-resistant trash bags in accordance with the provisions of Section 8.04.024. Said rodent-proof containers, rodent resistant trash bags, and/or compactor bags shall not be filled in excess of its defined battery limits. Regular household trash bags shall not be placed on the sidewalk for curbside collection.

    B.

    All refuse in accordance with Sections 8.04.024 and 8.04.025 must be placed out for collection not later than seven a.m., (EST or EDT) when in effect on the day of collection. Anyone placing rubbish out after stop has been collected will be in violation of this revision. All acceptable refuse may be placed out for collection no earlier than five p.m., on the day before scheduled collection. No person, firm or corporation shall place out for collection, any refuse that does not comply with this revision;

    C.

    No person shall place any rodent-proof container, container of ashes, rubbish and/or ordinary commercial wastes upon any sidewalk or way for collection by the city of Revere or its employees or agents unless the same shall be so covered or otherwise secured as to prevent the ashes or other contents thereof from blowing or otherwise escaping therefrom into or upon any street or way or part thereof. Private parties, firms or corporations may collect ordinary commercial and/or extraordinary commercial and industrial wastes provided that such collection shall be made only when said wastes are enclosed in tight metal or rigid containers which shall be nonleakable and the vehicle in which such wastes are carried including garbage and ordinary commercial wastes shall be subject to supervision or the department of public health and licensed therefor in accordance with statute. No person shall place refuse for collection in front of any building where the refuse was not generated.

    D.

    Any owner or owner of any other dwelling that is in violation of the provisions of this section shall be subject to the penalties set forth in Chapters 1.12 and 1.16 of the Revised Ordinances of the City of Revere.

    (C.O.04-123 § 1; C.O. § 1, 1990)

(Ord. No. 11-088, §§ 4—6, 5-23-2011; C.O. 11-314, §§ 6, 7, 10-24-2011)