[HISTORY: Adopted by the City of Rochester 6-6-1995 as Ch. 19 of the 1995 Code; amended 6-4-2005; 4-15-2008. Subsequent amendments noted where applicable.]
The following definitions shall apply in the interpretation
and enforcement of this chapter:
Any material generated from minor renovation or demolition
activities on primary personal residences within the City. Debris
generated at apartment or condominium units not used as primary personal
residence of the taxpayer shall not be accepted for free. Residents
must bring any material to the dropoff themselves. Letters of authorization
on the owner's behalf brought to the dropoff by nonresidents will
not be accepted, unless approved by the City's contracted solid waste
management company (the City's waste collection contractor). Residents
requesting approval must submit an application to the Department of
Building, Zoning, and Licensing Services.
[Amended 10-15-2013; 3-5-2019]
Specially marked bags (or stickers for bags up to 30 gallons
in size) designed for refuse as approved by the City of Rochester
Commissioner of Public Works. Bags (stickers) shall be sold by the
City for waste that will not fit into the cart provided by the City's
waste collection contractor for residential solid waste.
[Amended 3-5-2019]
Any acceptable municipal solid waste that is not capable
of being placed in an approved container. Said waste shall include
such items as oversized furniture, carpeting, large metal items and
appliances. Bulky wastes must be less than 200 pounds, capable of
being collected by two people and of a dimension no larger than six
feet by six feet by four feet. Bulky waste shall not include appliances
that contain or once contained CFCs.
Bulky waste materials securely tied together forming an easily
handled package not exceeding four feet in length or 50 pounds in
weight.
Refrigerants used in appliances such as dehumidifiers, water
coolers, freezers, refrigerators, and air conditioners.
Refers to the City of Rochester, New Hampshire.
The individual, firm, partnership, joint venture, corporation
or association performing refuse collection and disposal under contract
with the City.
A refuse depository for the processing or final disposal
of refuse, including but not limited to sanitary landfills, transfer
stations, incinerators and waste processing separation centers, licensed,
permitted or approved by all governmental bodies and agencies having
jurisdiction.
A commercially designed large metal container for refuse
that has a closable top lid(s) and/or side slide doors.
Animal, vegetable or mineral matter derived from the preparation
or packaging of foodstuffs.
Putrescible animal or vegetable wastes resulting from the
handling, preparation, cooking, serving or consumption of food and
including food containers.
Wastes classified as hazardous under federal, state or local
law, and/or waste the acceptance of which in the City's waste collection
contractor's judgment would pose a nuisance or threat to human health
or the environment, and/or waste that cannot be accepted under the
City's waste collection contractor's waste acceptance policy (waste
acceptance policy) as amended from time to time.
[Amended 3-5-2019]
Hazardous waste generated from noncommercial usage by persons
in their residence.
Any building or structure used and occupied for human habitation
or intended to be so used which contains five or more suites of one
or more rooms each suite having facilities for regular cooking. It
also includes combinations of buildings upon a given property with
five or more units.
Any activity occurring at a household located within the
City that may generate material that requires disposal, not including
new home construction or demolition of primary personal residences.
A unit that a resident taxpayer claims as his/her residence
for voting.
Refers to all streets and highways maintained by the City
or state. Class VI and private roads are specifically excluded.
Any material, including various glass, paper, cardboard,
metal cans, plastics or other materials, that can be processed or
treated at a Material Recovery Facility in order to produce reusable
materials.
[Amended 7-2-2019]
Discarded waste materials in a solid or semi-liquid state,
consisting of garbage, residential solid waste or a combination thereof.
[Amended 3-5-2019]
A dwelling unit such as a home, manufactured housing, or
multifamily dwelling and condominium, but not including commercial
establishments, businesses, hotels, motels or campgrounds, that is
located within the City.
Facility located at TREE for City of Rochester residents
to bring acceptable waste from normal household activities. Hours
for residential dropoff center shall be publicized. Recycling is mandatory
at the residential dropoff center.
A specifically designated wheeled container or cart distributed
by the City's waste collection contractor to be used for the storage
of acceptable recyclables in the automated collection process. No
other receptacles will be permitted for collection by the City's waste
collection contractor.
[Amended 3-5-2019]
All nonhazardous garbage, food wastes, and trash resulting
from the normal household activities.
[Amended 3-5-2019]
The specifically provided or designated container distributed
by the City's waste collection contractor. No other receptacles will
be permitted.
[Amended 3-5-2019]
Combustibles such as paper, wood, fabric, etc., and noncombustibles
such as metal, glass, stone, dirt, sawdust, etc.
[Amended 3-5-2019]
As defined in 40 CFR 240.101(z).
[Added 3-5-2019]
Turnkey Recycling and Environmental Enterprises facility
located on Rochester Neck Road in the City of Rochester.
Materials include the following:
Any soft leaf, grass, brush or vegetable wastes generated
from residences within the City of Rochester. The City will operate
semiannual roadside collections of leaves, brush, grass clippings
and other yard wastes. The Commissioner of Public Works will announce
the collection schedules. Brush shall be properly bundled as defined
above.
[Amended 3-5-2019]
[Amended 3-5-2019]
No person, firm or corporation shall place any residential solid
waste, cans, iron, wood, special or hazardous wastes, including but
not limited to flammables, toxic or rubber dust, liquid or fecal waste,
sludge, demolition materials, animals and animal parts, yard waste
and other waste material upon or near a City street or highway for
collection except in accordance with the following provisions of this
chapter.
[Amended 3-5-2019; 7-2-2019]
The City of Rochester shall only collect residential solid waste
on public streets or highways. For those properties served by streets
other than public streets or highways, including but not limited to
mobile home parks, condominiums, or streets not yet accepted by the
City, residential solid waste shall not be placed curbside for collection
unless agreed to by the Commissioner of Public Works or his/her designee
and the City's waste collection contractor.
[Amended 3-5-2019]
No person, firm or corporation shall place or cause to be placed
garbage, refuse or residential solid waste, yard waste, bulky waste
or construction and demolition debris in or on private property unless
authorized by the owner of the property and except in accordance with
any applicable state law.
[Amended 3-5-2019]
Residential solid waste collection will be made Monday through
Friday of each week, except those weeks in which a holiday occurs,
when a revised pickup schedule will be announced by the Commissioner
of Public Works. Residents shall place their residential solid waste
and recycling to be collected along the roadside or street side where
normally the curbing would be no earlier than the evening before,
or by 7:00 a.m. on their scheduled pickup day.
[Amended 3-5-2019; 7-2-2019]
All residential solid waste shall be placed in receptacles provided by the City's waste collection contractor, as defined under § 210-1. Residential solid waste that does not fit in the approved receptacle shall not be collected unless such waste is recyclable materials as defined in § 210-1 and placed at curbside as described in § 210-17.
The contractor shall not be required to collect solid waste unless it is in approved containers, as described in § 210-1 of this chapter.
[Amended 3-6-2018]
Except on the day scheduled for collection and during the time period provided in § 210-5 of this chapter, no person shall place or store any refuse in any street, alley or other public place or upon any private property within the City of Rochester unless such refuse is placed in proper containers/dumpsters.
It is prohibited to bring materials from outside of Rochester
into the City of Rochester for disposal or recycling by the City.
[Amended 3-5-2019]
Residential solid waste containers, once emptied, must be removed
by the owner from the roadside within 24 hours. Any debris strewn
from this residential solid waste by animals, wind, etc., will be
cleaned up by the owner within 24 hours. Residential solid waste collection
crews will be responsible for any debris they drop or spill on the
ground and will clean it up before moving on to the next stop.
[Amended 3-5-2019]
Acceptable construction and demolition debris as defined in § 210-1 may be brought to an approved residential dropoff center at no cost. Debris generated at apartment or condominium units not used as the primary personal residence of the taxpayer shall be charged the same fees as any other commercial user.
The owners of any multifamily dwelling as defined in § 210-1 of this chapter shall supply a dumpster or cart sufficient to provide storage for all solid waste generated within the multifamily dwelling. The owner is responsible for cost of collection.
[Amended 3-5-2019]
Bulky waste, white goods and scrap metal as defined in § 210-1 may be placed at roadside for collection by the contractor. The schedule shall be as determined by the Department of Public Works and publicized.
[Amended 3-5-2019]
Hazardous waste and unacceptable wastes, as defined in § 210-1, the definition of "hazardous waste and unacceptable wastes," will not be accepted for roadside pickup by the contractor.
[Amended 10-15-2013]
This chapter shall be enforced by the Police Department, the
Public Works Department or the Department of Building, Zoning, and
Licensing Services or their duly authorized agents.
[Amended 3-5-2019]
Any person, firm or corporation found to be in violation of
any provision of this chapter shall be guilty of a violation punishable
by a civil penalty up to three thousand dollars ($3,000.).
[Amended 3-5-2019; 7-2-2019]
Recyclable material will be collected from residences (as defined by § 210-1) on the same day as residential solid waste collection. Recyclable material must be placed in the approved residential recycling receptacles (as defined by § 210-1). The approved residential recycling receptacles must be placed at the curbside on the evening before or by 7:00 a.m. on the scheduled pickup day. Unacceptable material found in the approved residential recycling receptacles will not be collected.
[Amended 3-5-2019]
Rochester residents may purchase the City's approved bags (stickers)
for residential solid waste to be brought to an authorized residential
dropoff center. Recycling is mandatory at the residential dropoff
center.
[Amended 3-5-2019]
Residential roadside collection of leaf and yard waste shall be scheduled in the spring and fall. The schedule shall be determined by the Public Works Department and shall be publicized. Such materials shall be placed in paper bags or bundled as defined in § 210-1 of this chapter.
[Amended 3-5-2019]
No person other than an agent of the City acting in the course of his/her employment shall collect or pick up or cause to be collected or picked up any recyclable material, as defined in § 210-1, placed at roadside.
Should any provision or section of this chapter be held invalid
for any reason, such holding shall not be constructed as affecting
the validity of the remaining provisions or sections.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Original § 19.22, Savings clause,
which immediately followed this section, was repealed 3-5-2019.
