No person shall keep, accumulate or permit to be kept or accumulated any rubbish within the city except in suitable containers acceptable to the garbage collector and suitable for removal by him. Nothing herein shall prevent a person burning rubbish or disposing of rubbish in compost piles or hauling the same away from the city, dumping or causing the same to be dumped in any public rubbish dump to the extent permitted by laws, ordinances or regulations of this city. The burying of rubbish within the city limits is specifically prohibited. (Ord. 784 NCS §2; Ord. 173 NCS §24; prior code §13.16.)