[Adopted 5-4-2000 by Ord. No. 2-00]
There is hereby created, within the Township of Mine Hill, Garbage
District No. 1.
The limits and boundaries of Garbage Collection District No.
1 shall coincide in all respects with the municipal boundaries of
the Township of Mine Hill, it being the purpose of this article to
place the entire area forming a part of the Township of Mine Hill
within this Garbage District No. 1.
This Garbage Collection District No. 1 is hereby formed for
the purpose of providing for the collection and removal of recyclable
materials, garbage, ashes, refuse, rubbish and other solid waste materials
within such district. The Township of Mine Hill shall arrange for
such collection and removal by contract, or otherwise as permitted
and provided by law, but no contract shall be made or entered into
by the Township for a period longer than five years.
The Township Council shall order and cause to be raised within
the limits of this Garbage Collection District No. 1 sufficient monies
to provide for the payment of the cost of removing garbage, recyclable
materials and other solid waste from such district. All such sums
so ordered to be raised shall be levied, raised and collected within
the Township to meet the general expense of the Township. The revenues
to be raised by taxation shall be $240,000, and surplus anticipated
shall be $15,000. Said sums shall be expended for: salary and wages:
$40,000; other expenses: $14,900; contractual services: $197,000;
and social security: $3,100. The Garbage Collection District No. 1
tax rate for 2000 per $100 of assessed valuation shall be $0.11.
The Tax Collector of the Township of Mine Hill shall pay over
to the Township Chief Financial Officer all sums levied and raised
pursuant to this article, and the Chief Financial Officer shall use
and apply all such sums only for the purpose of meeting and paying
costs and expenses incurred in providing for the collection and removal
of garbage, recyclable materials and other solid waste materials from
the Garbage Collection District No. 1.
All sums and monies so ordered to be raised, levied and collected
to meet the cost of garbage, recyclable materials and other solid
waste collection within the Garbage Collection District No. 1 shall
constitute liens upon the lands and properties within the Township
of Mine Hill against which such sums are assessed in the same manner
and by the same proceeding as the payment of general taxes are enforced
within the Township of Mine Hill.
