Columbia Prohibitions ordinance (§ 22-158)

(a) Unlawful items. The city shall not collect for disposal at its sanitary landfill, nor shall it accept for disposal at its sanitary landfill, the following items:

(1) Hazardous waste.

(2) Household hazardous waste.

(3) Infectious waste which has not been rendered innocuous.

(4) Lead-acid batteries.

(5) Tires which have not been cut, chipped or shredded in accordance with RSMo Ch. 260.

(6) Major appliances.

(7) Waste oil from motor vehicles.

(b) Unlawful acts.

(1) It shall be unlawful for any person to deposit any unlawful items into a refuse cart, trash bag or centralized refuse container for collection and disposal by the city. No person shall conceal or attempt to conceal any unlawful items in refuse to be collected by the city or deposited in the city's

sanitary landfill.

(2) It shall be unlawful for any person to utilize the refuse cart or container of another customer for the disposal of such customer's own refuse or garbage without express consent.

(3) It shall be unlawful for any person to deliver, deposit, drop off or set out at any residential yard waste site any materials, substances or thing other than yard waste from that person's personal residence.

(4) It shall be unlawful for any person to place or deposit the following items inside a refuse cart:

a. Hot ashes, coals, or loose cool ashes.

b. Items too large for refuse carts, such as furniture and appliances, or any other item or collection of items which prohibit the lid on the top of the refuse cart from closing.

c. Rocks, dirt or construction debris.

(5) It shall be unlawful for any person to place refuse in any bag or refuse cart without first eliminating, as far as possible, all water and liquid from such refuse prior to placing the same in such bag or refuse cart.

(6) It shall be unlawful for any person, partnership or corporation to place or allow any refuse, or yard waste to remain at the curb or edge of the roadway on any day other than the scheduled day of collection for that location. The "day of collection" is hereby defined to be the period from 4:00 p.m. of the day preceding collection until 10:00 p.m. the day of collection.

(7) It shall be unlawful for any person to dispose of any refuse by depositing the same in any public alley, street, roadway, vacant lot or property of any kind or character within the city or in any stream or body of water within the city, or by burning garbage. However, nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the disposition of refuse by means of burning the same in an incinerator enclosed within a building in compliance with applicable state law.

(8) It shall be unlawful for any person to block, either by parking a motor vehicle or by placing any barriers or other restrictive devices, the access to any refuse storage container by the city collection vehicles.

(9) It shall be unlawful to place liquid fats, oils and greases into a trash compactor, dumpster or refuse cart.

(10) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, it shall be unlawful for any person to take, open or remove the contents of a commingled recycling bag placed near the street for collection by the city. This subsection shall not apply to city refuse collectors performing their job duties.

(11) Except on the scheduled day of collection, it shall be unlawful to place or store a refuse and/or recycling cart or any other refuse and/or recycling storage container outdoors at any location on the premises which is not immediately adjacent to the residential structure or any accessory structure on the property.

(c) Information obtained from waste disposed or deposited in violation of this section shall establish a rebuttable presumption that the person so identified committed a violation.

(d) The person(s) in whose name the refuse account is maintained and the owners of record of the property on which the refuse, garbage, refuse cart or yard waste is placed or allowed to remain shall be prima facie responsible for its placement and maintenance in violation hereof.

(e) A violation of this subsection is a misdemeanor as designated by this code and punishable under section 16-31 hereof.