A.    Every tenant, lessee or occupant of any private dwelling house; the keeper of each hotel, restaurant, eating house, boardinghouse or other place where meals are furnished; the owner of every furnished flat or apartment house; and every other person having garbage, shall provide at his own expense and at all times shall keep within such building, or on the lot on which such building is situated, suitable and sufficient watertight cans or receptacles with suitable bales or handles and tightfitting covers, for receiving and holding without leakage or escape of odors, and without being filled to within four inches of the top, all the garbage which would ordinarily accumulate on such premises within one week's time. As an alternative to the cans or receptacles set forth above, containers approved by the city and the city's garbage collector may be leased or rented from the city's garbage collector.

    B.    Every tenant, lessee or occupant of any private dwelling house, hotel, restaurant, eating house, boardinghouse, the owner of every furnished flat or apartment house, the owner or lessee of any commercial business, and every other person having garbage may provide, as an alternative to watertight cans or receptacles, either one-yard, one-and-one-half-yard or two-yard commercial bins. The bins may be leased from the garbage collection service with whom the city has contracted. (Prior code § 11-6)