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" f" ). ) TUESDAY AUGUST 24, 1982 ARTICLE III REFUSE COLLECTION Sec. 8-8 Definition of "refuse". For the purpose of this article, the term "refuse" shall include any of all of the following: Ashes. The residue from the burning of wood, cloth, coal, coke, charcoal, paper, or other combustible material. Garbage. Putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling, preparation, or consumption of food. Rubbish. Nonputrescible solid wastes consisting of paper, cardboard, wood, cans, glass, yard clippings, bedding, crockery, metals, trash, sweepings, litter, plaster, and debris. Sec. 8-9 Refuse containers. a. It shall be the duty of every owner, lessee, or occupant of any premises in the city where refuse is created to provide or cause to be provided a suitable container or containers for such refuse. b. It shall be the duty of every owner of an apartment or multiple family dwelling containing more than four (4) individual units to provide an adequate number of large volume dumpsters of a type approved by the Director of Public Works. c. It shall be the duty of every owner, lessee, or occupant of any premises in the city creating refuse in such volume between regularly scheduled collections that such refuse exceeds the volume of five (5) thirty-two gallon containers to provide an adequate number of large volume dumpsters of a type approved by the Director of Public Works. d. It shall be the duty of every other owner, lessee, or occupant of any premises in the city to provide or cause to be provided an adequate number of galvanized metal or plastic, watertight, sanitary containers, each with a tight-fitting cover and two side handles, having a minimum capacity of twenty gallons and a maximum capacity of thirty-two gallons. e. Any refuse container shall hold its contents without leakage or spillage.