Providence Municipal Ordinance Sec. 12-63. - Time to place waste for collection; duty to remove after collection.
(a) The owner of any dwelling shall be deemed to have allowed an unsanitary condition and a nuisance to exist whenever garbage, trash or debris at that dwelling is placed out early for municipal collection. "Early" shall mean prior to 4 p.m. on the day preceding the date of garbage collection.
(b) The owner of any dwelling shall be deemed to have allowed an unsanitary condition and a nuisance to exist whenever containers used for the deposit of garbage, trash or debris at that dwelling are not removed from the public way by midnight of the designated collection day for that particular area of the city.
(c) Except for the placement of containers on the public way for trash collection, an owner of any dwelling shall be deemed to have allowed an unsanitary condition and nuisance to exist at that dwelling whenever containers for the storage of garbage, trash or debris are not screened or are otherwise viewable from the street. This provision shall not apply to nonresidential uses.
(d) Penalties for violation of subsection (b) shall not be assessed at more than one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500.00) cumulatively per calendar year for each individual dwelling. The penalty shall not exceed twenty-five dollars ($25.00) for the first violation, fifty dollars ($50.00) for the second violation, and one hundred dollars ($100.00) for all subsequent violations occurring within a calendar year [plus loss of draft picks].
(Ord. 1950, ch. 350, § 4, added by Ord. 1962, ch. 1517, § 1; Ord. 1989, ch. 89-3, § 1, 4-17-89; Ord. 2002, ch. 02-3, §§ 3—5, 2-13-02; Ord. 2011, ch. 2011-36, § 1, 7-18-11)
