[Code 1974 § 9-1; Code 1985 § 27-351;
Code 2005 § 110-391]
The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article,
shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where
the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
Putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the
handling, preparation, cooking, and consumption of foods, including
fish, poultry, or animal carcasses or parts.
Garbage and trash.
Any refuse, litter, ashes, leaves, debris, paper, combustible
materials, rubbish, offal, or waste, or matter of any kind or form,
other than garbage, which is uncared for, discarded, or abandoned.
[Code 1974 § 9-26; Code 1985 § 27-352;
Code 2005 § 110-392]
A.
The City Manager shall appoint a sanitary officer who may be the
superintendent of sanitation upon such terms as he shall approve,
whose duty it shall be to visit and inspect, at regular intervals
or as directed by the City Manager, all occupied premises in the City.
B.
The sanitary officer shall inspect the work of refuse collectors.
The sanitary officer shall prescribe conditions to which the work
of the collectors shall conform, and he shall supervise all such work
and report any unsatisfactory work of the collectors to the City Manager.
The sanitary officer shall see that all rules of the department of
health and all ordinances pertaining to such work are enforced.
C.
The sanitary officer shall determine if containers of the kind required
by this article have been obtained and put to use by the person required
to use the containers.
[Code 1974 § 9-27; Code 1985 § 27-353;
Code 2005 § 110-393]
It is unlawful for any person to violate, neglect or refuse
to comply with any rule or regulation by the City Manager pursuant
to this article.
[Code 1974 § 9-3; Code 1985 § 27-354;
Code 2005 § 110-394]
The City shall furnish a systematic collection and disposal
service for refuse and shall extend such services to all of the City
and fix conditions and the charges under which such services will
be rendered. Refuse service beyond the City limits may be provided
only after a formal request is made to the office of the City Clerk,
a review of feasibility by the City Manager, or his representative,
and only on a month-to-month basis as personnel, time or equipment
permits.
[Code 1974 §§ 9-4, 9-6; Code 1985 §§ 27-355,
27-356; Code 2005 § 110-395]
A.
Required. Each owner, tenant, occupant or lessee of any building
or premises within the City shall accept and use the refuse disposal
services provided by the City.
B.
Prerequisite to other utility service. No connection for utility
services in any part of the City in which the City provides a municipal
refuse collection and disposal service shall be made unless and until
the customer makes provision for municipal refuse collection and disposal
service at the same time that application is made for the utility
service.
[Code 1974 § 9-14; Code 1985 § 27-357;
Code 2005 § 110-396]
The superintendent of sanitation shall not collect any refuse
from any premises which does not comply with the provisions of this
article pertaining to refuse containers.
[Code 1974 § 9-8; Code 1985 § 27-358;
Code 2005 § 110-397]
[Code 1974 §§ 9-10, 9-11; Code 1985 § 27-359;
Code 2005 § 110-398]
B.
All containers which are not provided by the City will be maintained
in good condition by the customer. All such containers shall be kept
clean by the person receiving the refuse collection service. Any container
that fails to conform to this section or that may have ragged or sharp
edges or any other defect liable to hamper or injure persons collecting
the contents thereof, shall promptly be replaced by the person receiving
the refuse collection service upon five days' written notice
from the superintendent of sanitation.
[Code 1974 §§ 9-8, 9-10; Code 1985 § 27-360;
Code 2005 § 110-399]
All garbage shall be drained of excess liquids before being
deposited in residential refuse containers. All refuse shall be drained
of excess liquids before being placed in refuse containers located
in business districts.
[Code 1974 § 9-12; Code 1985 § 27-361;
Code 2005 § 110-400]
The lids or covers of all refuse containers, whether provided
by the occupant or owner of the premises, or furnished and owned by
the City, shall at all times be kept fastened so that flies and other
insects may not have access to the refuse contained therein, and such
lids or covers shall be removed only while depositing refuse into
such container, or while emptying refuse therefrom.
[Code 1974 § 9-13; Code 1985 § 27-362;
Code 2005 § 110-401]
Any occupant of premises may, upon approval of the superintendent
of sanitation, use a commercially manufactured disposable refuse sack
(bag) inside the refuse container, such sack to be provided at the
sole expense of such occupant.
[Code 1974 § 9-9; Code 1985 § 27-363;
Code 2005 § 110-402]
Excess dry trash shall be placed immediately adjacent to the
refuse container and secured, when necessary, to avoid scattering.
Grass clippings are to be placed in an enclosed approved type container
and shall not weigh in excess of 75 pounds. Tree limbs not in excess
of two inches in diameter, shrubs, and hedge trimmings shall be placed
in secured bundles which shall not exceed four feet in length, 12
inches in diameter or 75 pounds in weight.
[Code 1974 § 9-15; Code 1985 § 27-364;
Code 2005 § 110-403]
All refuse containers and accumulations of trash shall be placed
for collection by the City at the rear of the lot of the premises
and immediately adjacent to the alley or in a spot readily accessible
to the collector when no alley exists, or at such other places as
the superintendent of sanitation shall designate. Customers in the
business districts shall place their refuse containers where directed
by the superintendent of sanitation. The location of all refuse containers
whether residential or commercial shall be subject to the approval
of the superintendent of sanitation.
[Code 1974 § 9-15; Code 1985 § 27-365;
Code 2005 § 110-404]
Refuse containers placed for collection by the City shall be
anchored so as to prevent them from being tipped over by dogs, cats
and the wind.
[Code 1974 § 9-16; Code 1985 § 27-366;
Code 2005 § 110-405]
Each family unit in the City and each business house or establishment
in the City shall keep and maintain a refuse container unless other
appropriate arrangements have been approved by the City Manager in
writing.
[Code 1974 § 9-19; Code 1985 § 27-367;
Code 2005 § 110-406]
All liquids shall be disposed of by the person receiving City
refuse collection and disposal service and shall not be kept or stored
with refuse.
[Code 1974 § 9-20; Code 1985 § 27-368;
Code 2005 § 110-407]
A.
Carcasses of dead animals will not be placed in any residential or
commercial refuse container. Carcasses of animals will be placed in
a plastic bag and taken to the refuse transfer station, where the
contents of the bag will be identified to the attendant on duty.
B.
It shall be unlawful for any person to bury, or cause to be buried,
the carcass of any dead animal in any street, park, private premises
or any other public or private place within the City.
[Code 1974 § 9-22; Code 1985 § 27-369;
Code 2005 § 110-408]
No person shall burn, or cause to be burned, any refuse except
in an incinerator properly permitted by the state department of health.
This section shall not apply to City officers or employees while they
are engaged in the performance of their municipal duties.
[Code 1974 § 9-1; Code 1985 § 27-370;
Code 2005 § 110-409]
A.
Those items which the City shall not be obligated to collect shall
include wash rack residue, earth and wastes from building operations,
liquids, tree trimmings greater than two inches in diameter or longer
than four feet, or any object greater in length than four feet and
greater in weight than 75 pounds; however, such materials may be removed
from the City in accordance with special service contracts.
B.
Materials such as waste building materials, including but not limited
to, stone, mortar, bricks, sand, or lumber from construction, repair,
reconstruction operation, remodeling, commercial tree trimmings will
not be removed by the City refuse collection and disposal service.
Discarded items such as automobile bodies, frames and/or other heavy
or bulky material shall not be collected by the City. Such waste materials
shall be removed by the contractor, owner, or occupant of the building
or premises at his own expense, and at no time shall such materials
be placed in any refuse container or on or in any other property or
vacant lot, or in any street or alley in such a manner as to obstruct
the street or alley so as to inconvenience or endanger the public.
[Code 1974 § 9-17; Code 1985 § 27-371;
Code 2005 § 110-410]
The fees to be paid to the City for collection, hauling and
disposal of refuse shall be as follows:
(1)
The charges for a family unit shall be as established by resolution
on a per month or fraction thereof in accordance with the billing
zones and rules established by ordinance for payment of utility bills.
In cases of multiple-family units where the electric bills are paid
by a single party, the party billed for that service will be billed
for the additional units as provided by resolution. The customer will
be assessed an additional fee as established by resolution on each
billing when a City employee is required to enter into or upon the
customer's property to collect the customer's refuse.
(2)
The charges to be paid by business houses, institutions, schools,
offices for the collection, hauling and disposal of refuse shall be
fixed by the superintendent of sanitation and City Manager according
to actual volume and time required.
(3)
The charges for the collection of items of trash excluded from regular
collection by the City shall be set by the City Manager and approved
by the Board of Commissioners.
(4)
There shall be no service charge for premises where the electricity
and water are both disconnected for a period of time exceeding six
weeks' duration. For premises where temporary water and electrical
service are given, the refuse service charge shall be the minimum
monthly charge, except at new construction projects for which there
shall be no refuse service charge.
(5)
Any refuse that appears to be an excessive amount over normal collection
practices as determined in the opinion of the superintendent of sanitation
shall be subject to an extra charge.
[Code 1974 § 9-21; Code 1985 § 27-372;
Code 2005 § 110-411]
A.
The chairman of the Board of Commissioners and the City Clerk shall
execute contracts with private collectors after they have been approved
by the Board of Commissioners. The maximum term of such a contract
shall be five years, and the contract shall contain provisions for
termination by either party upon 90 days' notice.
B.
Any such contractor may be required:
(1)
To supply and use such vehicles so built, constructed and operated
as to prevent the spilling or loss of its contents along or upon any
alley, street, public or private grounds in the City;
(2)
To establish routes, time schedules, frequency of collection; to
keep collection records for each premises from which refuse is removed
and file two copies of the collection records with the City Manager;
(3)
To provide an office and telephone where complaints may be made regarding
the collection service; and
(4)
To make monthly reports to the City Manager respecting the services
performed.
C.
Any such contractor shall execute a surety bond to the City, to be
approved by the Board of Commissioners in the sum of $4,000 conditioned
for the satisfactory performance of all the terms of the contract
and to save the City free and harmless from any loss or damage on
account of the contractor's contract. The contractor shall, in
addition thereto, reimburse the City for any costs incurred by it
due to the failure of inability of such contractor to remove any refuse
in accordance with the collection schedule on file.
[Code 1985 § 27-373; Code 2005 § 110-412]
The City Manager or his designee is hereby authorized to establish
rules and policies for the operation of the refuse transfer station.
