[R.O. §13.04.010; Ord. No. 5689 §II, 10-5-2006]
For the purposes of this Chapter, the following terms shall
have the meanings indicated below:
An incinerator which complies with all current regulations
of the Missouri Air Conservation Commission.
A battery designed to contain lead and sulfuric acid with
a nominal voltage of at least six (6) volts and of the type intended
for use in motor vehicles and watercraft.
All non-putrescible, non-liquid solid wastes, whether combustible
or non-combustible, which are either too large or too heavy to be
safely and conveniently loaded into vehicles designed for solid waste
collection (packer trucks) without additional loading equipment and/or
manpower.
The City Manager for the City of Sikeston, Missouri, or his/her
designee.
Uncontaminated soil, rock, sand, gravel, concrete, asphaltic
concrete, cinder blocks, brick, minimal amounts of wood and metal
and inert solids as approved by rule or policy of the Department of
Natural Resources for fill, reclamation or other beneficial use.
The pickup and removal of all waste materials as specified
herein in a manner and by a method that fully contains all such materials
to be delivered to the disposal site, both in loading and transportation
phases of the operation.
A person, firm or corporation with whom the City has contracted
for performance of one (1) or more elements of residential and/or
commercial solid waste management for the City or a person, firm or
corporation licensed by the City to perform one (1) or more elements
of residential and/or commercial solid waste management in the City.
Any location or place where business is or could be conducted
or any dwelling unit under one (1) roof containing five (5) or more
individual residences or any grouping of five (5) or more individual
dwelling units offered for rent, regardless of length of stay, operated
by any person(s), firm or corporation in the normal pursuit of profit
or revenue generation.
Waste materials from the construction and demolition of residential,
industrial, or commercial structures, but shall not include materials
defined as clean fill under Section 260.200, RSMo.
The City Council for the City of Sikeston, Missouri.
A solid waste disposal area used for the controlled disposal
of demolition wastes, construction materials, brush, wood wastes,
soil, rock, concrete and inert solids insoluble in water.
The State of Missouri Department of Natural Resources.
Disposable plastic or paper sacks with a capacity of twenty
(20) gallons to thirty-five (35) gallons specifically designed for
storage of solid waste.
The delivery of solid waste to any appropriate site designed,
permitted or licensed by the appropriate State agency(ies) including,
but not necessarily limited to, incineration, composting, recycling,
baling, shredding, salvaging, compacting, landfill and/or other facility.
Any room or group of rooms within or on any premises and
forming a single habitable unit with facilities which are used or
intended to be used as a domicile, which may or may not include living,
sleeping, cooking and eating.
The Environmental Protection Agency of the United States
Government.
Waste which includes any of the following: putrescible animal,
vegetable or mineral wastes resulting from the handling, preparation,
cooking, serving, storage or consumption of food or paper, packaging
and other like items which result from routine household living activities.
Any waste or combination of wastes, as determined by the
Commission by rules and regulations, which, because of its quantity,
concentration, or physical, chemical or infectious characteristics,
may cause or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality
or an increase in serious irreversible, or incapacitating reversible,
illness, or pose a present or potential threat to the health of humans
or the environment.
Waste in quantities and characteristics as determined by
the department by rule and regulation, including the following wastes
known or suspected to be infectious: isolation wastes, cultures and
stocks of etiologic agents, contaminated blood and blood products,
other contaminated surgical wastes, wastes from autopsy, contaminated
laboratory wastes, sharps, dialysis unit wastes, discarded biologicals
and antineoplastic chemotherapeutic materials; provided however, that
infectious waste does not mean waste treated to department specifications.
Clothes washers and dryers, water heaters, trash compactors,
dishwashers, microwave ovens, conventional ovens, ranges, stoves,
woodstoves, air conditioners, refrigerators and freezers.
Any person who alone or jointly or severally with others
shall be in the actual possession of any dwelling unit or any other
improved real property, either as owner or tenant, receiving solid
waste services.
Any individual, partnership, corporation, association, institution,
city, county, other political subdivision, authority, state agency
or institution, or federal agency or institution.
Incinerating, composting, baling, shredding, salvaging, compacting
and other processes whereby solid waste characteristics are modified
or solid waste quantity is reduced.
Those materials which have been diverted or removed from
the solid waste stream for sale, use, reuse or recycling, whether
or not they require subsequent separation and processing.
The separation and reuse of materials which might otherwise
be disposed of as solid waste.
Solid waste:
COMMERCIAL SOLID WASTE: Solid waste resulting
from the operation of any commercial, industrial, institutional or
agricultural establishment and multiple-housing facilities with more
than five (5) dwelling units.
RESIDENTIAL SOLID WASTE: Solid waste resulting
from the maintenance and operation of dwelling units, excluding multiple-housing
facilities with more than five (5) dwelling waste collections.
A process by which recyclable and recoverable material is
removed from the waste stream to the greatest extent possible, as
determined by DNR and pursuant to DNR standards, for reuse or remanufacture
A solid waste disposal area, licensed and permitted by the
State of Missouri, which accepts commercial and residential solid
waste.
Garbage, refuse and other discarded materials including,
but not limited to, solid and semisolid waste materials resulting
from industrial, commercial, agricultural, governmental and domestic
activities, but does not include hazardous waste as defined in Sections
260.360 to 260.432, RSMo., recovered materials, overburden, rock,
tailings, matte, slag or other waste material resulting from mining,
milling or smelting.
A receptacle used by any person to store solid waste during
the interval between solid waste collections.
The entire composite solid waste system of storage, collection,
transportation, processing and disposal of any waste.
Any facility where solid waste is salvaged and processed
including:
Keeping, maintaining, storing and depositing for collection
of solid waste from its time of production until its time of collection.
A continuous solid or pneumatic rubber covering encircling
the wheel of a motor vehicle, trailer or wheels of other machinery.
The conveying of waste(s) or material(s) collected to an
approved disposal site or processing facility, in a legal manner,
with proper containment by truck or other appropriate vehicle.
A solid waste disposal area used for fly ash waste, bottom
ash waste, slag waste and flue gas emission control waste generated
primarily from the combustion of coal or other fossil fuels.
A tire that is no longer suitable for its original intended
purpose because of wear, damage or defect.
Leaves, grass clippings, yard and garden vegetation and Christmas
trees. The term does not include stumps, roots or shrubs with intact
root balls.
[R.O. 2009 §13.04.020; Ord. No. 5689 §II, 10-5-2006]
The occupant of every dwelling unit and of every institutional,
commercial or business, industrial or agricultural establishment producing
solid waste within the corporate limits of the City shall provide
sufficient and adequate containers for the storage of all solid waste
except bulky rubbish and demolition and construction waste to serve
each such dwelling unit and/or establishment and shall maintain such
solid waste containers at all times and in good repair.
[R.O. 2009 §13.04.030; Ord. No. 5689 §II, 10-5-2006]
A.
The occupant
of every dwelling unit and of every institutional, commercial or business,
industrial or agricultural establishment shall place all solid waste
to be collected in proper solid waste containers and the area surrounding
them shall be maintained in a clean, neat and sanitary condition at
all times.
B.
Garbage
and solid waste to be removed at each collection site shall be limited
to the contents of two (2) containers herein described and no more
than five (5) plastic bags as herein described (or any combination
thereof), together with any container provided by the contractor to
any dwelling unit.
[R.O. 2009 §13.04.040; Ord. No. 5689 §II, 10-5-2006]
A.
Storage
of any waste between collections shall be the responsibility of the
occupant of the premises and said occupant shall likewise have the
responsibility of making said waste available and accessible, either
in alley or at curbside, for collection with the following requirements
and restrictions:
1.
Containers
shall be designed for the purpose of waste containment and constructed
of galvanized metal, rubber, fiberglass or non-brittle polypropylene,
which containers shall have tight-fitting lids of the same or like
material.
2.
In containers
not exceeding forty (40) gallons or seventy-five (75) pounds loaded
gross weight and having handles, bails or other appropriate lifting
devices and which shall be leak-proof.
3.
No yard
waste (i.e., tree limbs, clippings or grass) will be removed.
4.
Plastic bags. In tied or sealed plastic bags.manufactured
for solid waste containment which do not exceed fifty (50) pounds
in weight and do not leak.
[R.O. 2009 §13.04.050; Ord. No. 5689 §II, 10-5-2006]
Residential solid waste containers shall be stored upon the
residential premises. Commercial solid waste containers shall be stored
upon private property unless the owner has been granted written permission
from the City to use public property for such purposes. The storage
site shall be well drained and fully accessible to collection equipment,
public health personnel and fire inspection personnel.
[R.O. 2009 §13.04.060; Ord. No. 5689 §II, 10-5-2006]
Solid waste containers as required by this Chapter for the storage
of residential solid waste shall be placed at the curb or alley for
collection. Any solid waste containers or other solid waste permitted
by this Chapter to be placed at the curb or alley for collection shall
not be so placed until the regularly scheduled collection day and
empty containers shall not be permitted to remain on the street after
they are emptied by the collector.
[R.O. 2009 §13.04.070; Ord. No. 5689 §II, 10-5-2006]
Solid waste containers, bags or bundles not meeting the standards of this Section shall not be required to be collected provided said container(s) is/are tagged with an appropriate tag to be furnished by contractor on a form approved by the City Manager or his/her designee, explaining the containers deficiency and identifying a complaint contract person within the contractor's organization. Plastic bags and/or bundles shall not be required to be collected if they do not comply with the provisions of Section 220.040, provided they are tagged for deficiency.
[R.O. 2009 §13.04.080; Ord. No. 5689 §II, 10-5-2006]
Commercial solid waste shall be stored in solid waste containers
as approved by the City Manager or his/her designee. The containers
shall be water-proof, leak-proof and shall be covered at all times,
except when depositing waste therein or removing the contents thereof,
and shall comply with all rules and regulations adopted pursuant to
the terms of this Chapter.
[R.O. 2009 §13.04.090; Ord. No. 5689 §II, 10-5-2006]
No tree limbs and/or yard waste shall be collected for disposal
at a landfill facility.
[R.O. 2009 §13.04.100; Ord. No. 5689 §II, 10-5-2006]
The City shall provide for the collection of all residential
solid waste in the City; provided however, that the City may provide
the collection service by licensing one (1) or more private collectors
to collect residential solid waste or by contracting with one (1)
or more contract collectors, a County or another City or a combination
thereof for collection of residential solid waste from the entire
City or portions thereof as deemed to be in the best interest of the
City.
[R.O. 2009 §13.04.110; Ord. No. 5689 §II, 10-5-2006]
The City shall provide for the collection of commercial solid
waste by licensing one (1) or more private collectors to collect commercial
solid waste; by contracting with one (1) or more contract collectors
to collect commercial solid waste; or by permitting the owners or
persons in charge of any establishment or property producing commercial
solid waste to provide for collection in compliance with all applicable
laws, ordinances and regulations of all solid waste produced upon
any such premises.
[R.O. 2009 §13.04.120; Ord. No. 5689 §II, 10-5-2006]
All solid waste collected shall, upon being loaded into collection
equipment, become the property of the collection agency.
[R.O. 2009 §13.04.130; Ord. No. 5689 §II, 10-5-2006]
Bulky rubbish shall be collected by contract collector or private
collector at the request of the person responsible for it. The fee
for such collection shall be based on the weight, size and type of
the bulky rubbish to be collected.
[R.O. 2009 §13.04.140; Ord. No. 5689 §II, 10-5-2006]
Solid waste collection personnel, employed by a contract collector
or private collector, are authorized to enter upon private property
serviced by their employer for the purpose of collecting solid waste
therefrom as required by this Chapter. Solid waste collection personnel
shall not enter dwelling units or other residential buildings for
the purpose of collecting residential solid waste. Commercial solid
waste may be removed from within commercial establishments upon written
request of the owner.
[R.O. 2009 §13.04.150; Ord. No. 5689 §II, 10-5-2006]
Each contract collector shall post with the City a cash or surety
bond in an amount equal to twenty percent (20%) of the estimated value
of each year's contract price but shall not exceed one hundred thousand
dollars ($100,000.00), whichever is less. The performance bond forfeiture
hereby provided is acknowledged to be liquidated damages, actual damages
being incapable of assessment.
[R.O. 2009 §13.04.160; Ord. No. 5689 §II, 10-5-2006]
No person shall engage in the business of collecting, transporting,
processing or disposing of solid waste within the corporate limits
of the City without first obtaining an annual private collector's
license from the City; provided however, that this provision shall
not be deemed to apply to employees of such licensee.
[R.O. 2009 §13.04.170; Ord. No. 5689 §II, 10-5-2006]
No private collector's license shall be issued until and unless
the applicant therefore, in addition to all other requirements set
forth, files and maintains with the City Manager or his/her designee
evidence of a satisfactory public liability insurance policy, covering
all operations of such applicant pertaining to such business and all
vehicles to be operated in the conduct thereof, in the amount established
and approved by the City Manager or his/her designee. Should any such
policy be canceled, the City Manager or his/her designee shall be
notified of such cancellation by the insurance carrier in writing
not less than ten (10) days prior to the effective date of such cancellation
and provision to that effect shall be incorporated in such policy,
which shall also place upon the company writing such a policy the
duty to give such notice.
[R.O. 2009 §13.04.180; Ord. No. 5689 §II, 10-5-2006]
A.
Each
applicant for any such license shall state in his/her application
therefore:
1.
The
nature of the permit desired, as to collect, transport, process or
dispose of solid waste or any combination thereof;
2.
The
characteristics of solid waste to be collected, transported, processed
or disposed;
3.
The
number of solid waste vehicles to be operated thereunder;
4.
The
precise location or locations of solid waste processing or disposal
facilities to be used;
5.
The
boundaries of the collection area;
6.
The
rate scheduled specifying the monthly cost of each type and level
of service to be offered; and
7.
Such
other information as may be required by the City Manager.
[R.O. 2009 §13.04.190; Ord. No. 5689 §II, 10-5-2006]
If the application shows that the applicant will collect, transport,
process or dispose of solid wastes without hazard to the public health
or damage to the environment and in conformity with the laws of the
State and this Chapter, the City Manager or his/her designee shall
issue the license authorized by this Chapter. The license shall be
issued for a period of one (1) year and each applicant shall pay therefore
a fee of fifty dollars ($50.00) for each collection vehicle to be
used. If, in the opinion of the City Manager or his/her designee,
modifications can be made to the application regarding service, equipment
or mode of operation so as to bring the application within the intent
of this Chapter, the City Manager or his/her designee shall notify
the applicant, in writing, setting forth the modification to be made
and the time in which it shall be done.
[R.O. 2009 §13.04.200; Ord. No. 5689 §II, 10-5-2006]
If the applicant does not make the modifications pursuant to the notice in Section 220.190 within the time limit specified therein or if the application does not clearly show that the collection, transportation, processing or disposal of solid wastes will create no public health hazard or be without harmful effects on the environment, the application shall be denied and the applicant notified by the City Manager or his/her designee, in writing, stating the reason for such denial. Nothing in this Section shall prejudice the right of the applicant to reapply after the rejection of his/her application, provided that all aspects of the reapplication comply with the provisions of this Chapter.
[R.O. 2009 §13.04.210; Ord. No. 5689 §II, 10-5-2006]
The license may be renewed annually on or before July first (1st) simply upon payment of the fee or fees as designated in this Chapter if the business has not been modified. If modifications have been made, the applicant shall reapply for a license as set forth in Sections 220.180 and 220.190. No licenses authorized by this Chapter shall be transferable from person to person.
[R.O. 2009 §13.04.220; Ord. No. 5689 §II, 10-5-2006]
Permits shall not be required for the removal, hauling or disposal
of earth and rock material from grading or excavation activities;
however, all such material shall be conveyed in tight vehicles, trucks
or receptacles, so constructed and maintained that none of the material
being transported shall spill upon the public rights-of-way.
[R.O. 2009 §13.04.230; Ord. No. 5689 §II, 10-5-2006]
[R.O. 2009 §13.04.240; Ord. No. 5689 §II, 10-5-2006]
Solid wastes shall be disposed of at a processing facility or
disposal area approved by the City and complying with all requirements
of the Missouri Division of Health. Disposal at other than an approved
site will be cause for suspension or termination of the license of
a private collector or for invoking the penalty clause of an agreement
between the City and a contract collector.
[R.O. 2009 §13.04.250; Ord. No. 5689 §II, 10-5-2006; Ord. No. 5802 §II, 1-8-2010]
A.
Hazardous
wastes shall require special handling and shall be disposed of only
in a manner acceptable to the City Manager and which meets all local,
State and Federal requirements.
1.
It shall
be unlawful to dispose of discarded sharps (hypodermic needles, lancets,
syringes, scalpel blades, broken glass or other sharp items that have
come in contact with blood or other material that may be considered
infectious) in the residential solid waste stream except as follows:
a.
Sharps
placed in the residential waste stream must be placed in a rigid,
leak-resistant and puncture-resistant container, and sealed prior
to disposal.
b.
This Section shall apply to generators of infectious waste at a single-family residential premises or single-family dwelling unit provided those wastes are generated on-site and disposed of with the generator's residential solid waste, and provided disposed sharps are packaged as required in Subsection (A)(1) above.
2.
Failure
to dispose of sharps in the manner herein provided shall constitute
a violation of the law.
[R.O. 2009 §13.04.260; Ord. No. 5689 §II, 10-5-2006]
In order to insure compliance with the laws of the State, this
Chapter and the rules and regulations in this Chapter, the City Manager
or his/her designee is authorized to inspect all phases of solid waste
management within the City. No inspection shall be made in any residential
unit unless authorized by the occupant or by due process of the law.
In all instances where such inspections reveal violation of this Chapter,
the rules and regulations authorized in this Chapter for the storage,
collection, transportation, processing or disposal of solid waste
or the laws of the State, the City Manager or his/her designee shall
issue notice for each such violation stating therein the violation
or violations found, the time and date and the corrective measure
to be taken, together with the time in which such corrections shall
be made.
[R.O. 2009 §13.04.270; Ord. No. 5689 §II, 10-5-2006]
In all cases, when the corrective measures have not been taken
within the time specified, the City Manager or his/her designee shall
suspend or revoke the license or licenses involved in the violation.
However, in those cases where an extension of time will permit correction
and there is no public health hazard created by the delay, one (1)
extension of time not to exceed the original time period may be given.
[R.O. 2009 §13.04.280; Ord. No. 5689 §II, 10-5-2006]
All motor vehicles operated by a contract collector or by a
private collector under any license required by this Chapter shall
display the collector's name and number or numbers on each side in
colors which contrast with that of the vehicle, such numbers to be
clearly legible and not less than three (3) inches high. Each permit
for processing or disposal facilities shall be prominently displayed
at the facility.
[R.O. 2009 §13.04.290; Ord. No. 5689 §II, 10-5-2006]
All collection vehicles shall be maintained in a safe, clean
and sanitary condition and shall be so constructed, maintained and
operated as to prevent spillage of solid waste therefrom. All vehicles
to be used for collection of solid waste shall be constructed with
water-tight bodies and with covers which shall be an integral part
of the vehicle or shall be separate cover of suitable material with
fasteners designed to secure all sides of the cover to the vehicle
and shall be secure whenever the vehicle is transporting solid waste
or, as an alternate, the entire bodies thereof shall be enclosed,
with only loading hoppers exposed. No solid waste shall be transported
in the loading hoppers.
[R.O. 2009 §13.04.300; Ord. No. 5689 §II, 10-5-2006]
The following collection frequencies shall apply to collections
of solid waste within the City: all residential solid waste, other
than bulky rubbish, shall be collected at least twice weekly. At least
forty-eight (48) hours shall intervene between collections. Commercial
accounts are collected daily six (6) days a week. Multiple daily collections
may be required, depending on the volume generated.
[R.O. 2009 §13.04.310; Ord. No. 5689 §II, 10-5-2006]
A.
The Board
of Municipal Utilities is authorized to make and promulgate reasonable
and necessary rules and regulations for the billing and collection
of solid waste collections and/or disposal service charges as hereinafter
provided for. The City Manager or his/her designee is authorized to
make and promulgate reasonable and necessary rules and regulations
for operation of each element of the solid waste disposal system serving
the City.
B.
A copy
of any and all rules and regulations made and promulgated under the
provisions hereof shall be filed in the office of the City Clerk.
[R.O. 2009 §13.04.320; Ord. No. 5689 §II, 10-5-2006]
A.
It is
unlawful for any person to:
1.
Deposit
solid waste in any solid waste container, other than his/her own,
without the written consent of the owner of such container and/or
with the intent of avoiding payment of the service charge hereinafter
provided for solid waste collection and disposal;
2.
Interfere
in any manner with solid waste collection equipment or with solid
waste collectors in the lawful performance of their duties as such,
whether such equipment or collection shall be those of the City or
those of a solid waste collection agency operating under contract
or with license from the City;
3.
Engage
in the business of collecting, transporting, processing or disposing
of solid waste within the corporate limits of the City without a permit
from the City for one (1) or more elements of solid waste management
or private collector's license from the City or operate under an expired
license or operate after a license has been suspended or revoked;
and
4.
Burn
solid waste unless an approved incinerator is provided or unless a
variance has been obtained from the appropriate air pollution control
agency, with the following exceptions:
a.
The
burning of leaves, twigs (not more than two (2) inches in diameter)
and vegetation originating on the property on which it is to be burned,
so long as the wind is not blowing in excess of ten (10) miles per
hour.
[R.O. 2009 §13.04.330; Ord. No. 5689 §II, 10-5-2006]
Nothing in this Section may be constructed to permit open burning
which causes or constitutes a hazard to vehicular or air traffic nor
which violates any other regulations.
[R.O. 2009 §13.04.340; Ord. No. 5689 §II, 10-5-2006]
There is levied a monthly charge as established by the City
Council against each dwelling unit within the boundaries of the City
for the collection and disposal of refuse, garbage and rubbish as
defined in this Chapter.
[R.O. 2009 §13.04.350; Ord. No. 5689 §II, 10-5-2006]
The monthly charge for collection and disposal of refuse, garbage
and rubbish shall be added to and collected along with the water bill
for each dwelling unit or separate water customer.
[R.O. 2009 §13.04.360; Ord. No. 5689 §II, 10-5-2006]
Each person, being responsible for the payment of the water
bill for each dwelling unit shall be responsible for the payment of
the refuse, garbage and rubbish collection and disposal charge.
[R.O. 2009 §13.04.370; Ord. No. 5689 §II, 10-5-2006]
The monthly charge for collection and disposal of refuse, garbage
and rubbish may be collected for each person responsible for or in
charge of each dwelling unit entitled to the use of such service,
by legal action brought by the City in a court of competent jurisdiction,
with the costs thereof to be charged against and collected from the
person entitled to the use of such service, including a reasonable
attorney fee to be set by the court.
[R.O. 2009 §13.04.380; Ord. No. 5689 §II, 10-5-2006]
The monthly charge provided for in Section 220.350 shall be paid to the City Board of Municipal Utilities and shall be collected along with the regular monthly service charge for water and utility service. The Board of Municipal Utilities is authorized and directed to transfer each week from the Board of Municipal Utilities to the General Revenue Fund of the City, such funds as may have been deposited therein from the monthly charge for collection and disposition of refuse, garbage and rubbish.
