Every tenant, lessee and occupant of every private dwelling house and the keeper of every hotel, restaurant, eating house, boardinghouse, apartment house or other building where rubbish shall accumulate shall provide boxes or barrels or other proper receptacles to be kept on such premises, sufficient to collect the rubbish which would accumulate on such premises within one week's time, and all rubbish accumulating on such premises shall be placed in such boxes, barrels or other receptacles. As an alternative, approved receptacles may be leased or rented from the city's garbage collector. (Prior code § 11-7)