A. Contract. The city and its duly authorized agents, servants and employees, or any contractor or contractors with whom the city may at any time enter into a contract therefor, and the agents, servants and employees of such contractor or contractors, while any such contract shall be in force, shall have the exclusive right or waive such right to a person to gather, collect and remove garbage, rubbish and other waste material from all premises in the city, and no person other than those above-specified shall gather, collect or remove any garbage, rubbish or waste material or convey or transport any garbage, rubbish or waste material from any premises in the city, and no person other than those above-specified shall take any garbage, rubbish or waste material from any receptacle in which the same may be placed for collection or removal, or interfere with or disturb any receptacle or remove any such receptacle from any location where the same is placed by the owner thereof; provided, however, that nothing in this section prohibits the occupant of any dwelling house from themselves removing or causing the removal of any garbage or rubbish accumulated on the premises occupied by them as a dwelling house and disposing of the same in a lawful manner.

B. Exclusive Rights. The city, and its duly authorized agents, servants and employees, or any contractor or contractors with whom the city may at any time enter into a contract therefor, and the agents, servants and employees of such contractor or contractors, while any such contract is in force, shall have the exclusive right to collect, remove and dispose of garbage, rubbish and other waste material from the city sanitary landfill, and no person other than those specified in this section shall collect, remove or dispose of any garbage, rubbish or waste material, or convey or transport any garbage, rubbish or waste material to the city sanitary landfill. [Prior code § 11.08.020.]