Sec. 7-81. - Purpose and intent.

The purpose of this article is to regulate the placement of unattended donation boxes within the city. The procedures and requirements of this article are enacted to: (a)

Promote the community's health, safety, and welfare by regulating unattended donation boxes for clothing or other salvageable personal property within the city;

(b)

Ensure that unattended donation boxes do not pose a hazard to pedestrian and vehicular traffic;

(c)

Ensure that material is not allowed to accumulate outside of the unattended donation boxes where it can be scattered by adverse weather conditions, animal contacts and human activities; and

(d)

Establish criteria that avoid attracting vermin, unsightliness, and public health hazard.

(Ch. 795, § I, 2-16-21)