§ 28.12. Prohibited Acts.

The following acts are prohibited and an offense against the City:

(1)

Decaying Matter. No person shall place or deposit or cause to be placed or deposited upon any streets, sidewalks, or public or private premises any decaying flesh or vegetable matter or other noisome thing which is obnoxious to neighbors or passersby or which endangers the health of the public. The failure by such person to remove the decaying matter within twenty-four (24) hours after receipt of the Division Manager's order to remove the same, without just cause, shall be a violation of this article.

(2)

Keeping Hides, Rags or Other Offensive Matter in or upon Commercial Premises. No person shall keep a deposit of green or dry hides or filthy rags, bones, guano or any other matter or things of offensive or noisome odors in or upon their commercial premise. The Director, Orange County Health Officer or Division Manager shall order any person keeping such nuisance to remove the same within twenty-four (24) hours. A failure by such persons to comply with such order, without just cause, shall be a violation of this article.

(3)

Unhealthy Carcasses. No person shall place or deposit upon any streets, sidewalks, public or private premises any carcass which is found to annoy or endanger the health of any person. The Director or Division Manager shall order the owner thereof or the owner of the premises whereon the carcass is found to remove it within six (6) hours. Failure to comply with such order, without just cause, shall be a violation of this article.

(4)

Paper, Leaves, Trash, etc., on Street or in Gutters. No paper, handbills, leaves, lawn trimmings, brush, sidewalk sweepings or solid waste of any description shall be thrown on the street or be deposited in the gutters of any street.

(5)

Sweepings. No merchant or storekeeper shall sweep their place of business or store upon the street, but the sweepings shall be gathered into an approved container and placed at a location approved by the Division Manager as herein provided.

(6)

Discharging Foul Water or Decaying Flesh on Streets or Premises. No person shall discharge on any street or alley, or on their own premises or the premises of another, any foul or fetid water, or throw thereon any decaying flesh or vegetable or other offensive or noisome matter.

(7)

Tree Trunks, Limbs and Other Debris on Streets, etc. It shall be unlawful for any person, to place or deposit or caused to be placed or deposited upon any of the streets, sidewalks, parkways, thoroughfares, public parks, or other public places of the City, any tree trunks or limbs, any trash, debris, papers, litter, solid waste, or other discarded matter of whatever kind, except as specifically provided within the rules and regulations.

(8)

Responsibility of Owner/Occupant. No person having custody or control of residential or commercial premises from which solid waste, construction and demolition debris, or recovered material is collected in the City of Orlando shall permit or cause any such material within their control to become a hazard to public travel, health, or safety, or to become a nuisance of any sort.

(Ord. of 12-27-1973, § 1; Ord. of 10-12-1987, Doc. #21545; Ord. of 12-9-1991, Doc. #25331; Ord. of 11-15-1993, Doc. #27049; Ord. of 7-26-2010, § 1, Doc. #1007261102; Ord. No. 2019-9 , § 10, 3-11-2019, Doc. #1903111202)