No garbage, butchers offal, dead animals, tin cans, fruits, vegetables, leaves, grass, ashes or any other articles or things whatsoever calculated to obstruct or likely to interfere with the efficient operation of the public sewer system, shall be placed or deposited in any drain, sewer or manhole, and any person, firm or corporation who shall violate the provisions of this chapter, or who shall injure, break, remove or damage any catch basin, manhole, lampholes, private or public drain of sewer, or any part of the public sewer system of the city shall be subject to penalties hereinafter prescribed. (Prior code § 38-3-17)