All persons, firms or corporations, and their agents and employees whose residences or places of doing business are within the corporate limits of the city shall be privileged to use the city disposal grounds in accordance with the provisions, requirements, regulations and restrictions as follows:

    A.    No liquid wastes, special wastes or hazardous wastes or industrial process wastes (as same shall, from time to time, be defined by Illinois Environmental Protection Act Regulations), or any other materials, objects or articles except as hereinafter described and permitted, including but not limited to garbage, vegetable matter subject to decay, bodies of animals, grease or fat shall be dumped or disposed of at city disposal grounds. City disposal grounds shall be limited to dumping and disposing of sanitary solid wastes as herein defined.

    B.    Landscape waste may be dumped and disposed of by burning or burial in accordance with the city’ s Illinois Environmental Protection Act Solid Waste Disposal Ground Permit, at city disposal grounds. Landscape waste shall include and shall be limited to, accumulations of grass or shrubbery cuttings, leaves, tree limbs, and other herbaceous and plant or plant like materials created as a result of the care of lawns, shrubbery, vines, trees and the like in the city.

    C.    The following general household and commercial waste shall be placed in refuse containers at transfer station facilities to be located at city disposal grounds, which refuse containers shall then be hauled away from the disposal grounds and disposed of at an Illinois Environmental Protection Agency approved and permitted facility, in accordance with the Illinois Environmental Protection Agent Transfer Station Permit issued to the city: large appliances: washers, dryers, refrigerators, freezers, stoves, dishwashers, garbage disposals, water heaters, furnaces, televisions, stereos, humidifiers, air conditioners and water softeners; furniture: couches, chairs, tables, dressers, chest of drawers, mattresses, head and foot boards; and automobile parts: tires, wheels, power train subassemblies, seats, convertible tops, sheet metal, bumpers, steering wheels, and windows.

    No liquids, residues or leachates shall be allowed in a city transfer station. The transfer station shall not accept, receive, store or transfer any special waste, liquid or putrescible material and shall handle for disposal only the above-described materials.

    D.    The only materials that may be disposed of in a city landfill solid waste disposal grounds facility, other than the landscape wastes described above, shall be building demolition debris and building construction wastes. (Ord. 693 § 1 (part), 1988: prior code § 15-2-2)