[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Bridgman
as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 9-26-1988 by Ord. No. 99.2 (Ch. 307.000 of the 1999 Compiled
Ordinances)]
The City of Bridgman hereby determines that it is necessary
to provide regulations governing the storage, collection, handling,
transporting and disposal of all the garbage, trash and rubbish and
other waste materials within the City of Bridgman in order to ensure
and protect the public health and safety.
For the purpose of this article, the following definitions shall
apply:
Includes all form of refuse generated as a result of building
construction, alterations or repairs made by contractors or tradesmen.
This type of materials is expressly excluded under this article and
the collection and disposal of this type of material shall remain
the liability of the contractor or owner.
Includes animal, fruit and vegetable waste materials resulting
from the handling, preparation, cleaning and consumption of foods
and foodstuffs in kitchens, stores, markets, hotels, restaurants and
other places where food is stored, sold, cooked, or consumed.
Includes any individual, firm, copartnership or corporation.
Those pollutants or combination of pollutants, including
disease-causing agents which upon exposure, ingestion, inhalation
or assimilation into any organism, either directly or indirectly from
the environment or indirectly by ingestion through food chains, will,
on the basis of information available to the Administrator of the
Environmental Protection Agency of the United States of America, or
the Director of the Department of Natural Resources of the State of
Michigan, cause death, disease, behavioral abnormalities, cancer,
genetic mutations, physiological malfunctions or deformations, in
such organisms or their offspring.
As used herein shall be deemed to include all waste materials
classified as follows:
Waste material resulting from the usual routine of housekeeping,
except garbage, including, but not by way of limitation, such articles
as tin cans, tinware, ashes, porcelainware, bottles, glassware, earthenware,
small automobile parts and other metallic substances ordinarily discarded
by householders.
Newspapers (if tied in bundles), cardboard boxes (if collapsed
and tied), rags, leather, rubber goods and wastepaper (if bundled).
No owner, tenant or lessee of any public or private premises
shall be permitted to accumulate upon his premises any garbage, trash
or rubbish, refuse or waste materials, including yard wastes, unless
it is placed and maintained in containers for regular collection and
stored as follows:
A.Â
Containers for garbage. All containers used for garbage shall be
of substantial construction, provided with handles and a tightly fitted
cover. They shall have a capacity of not more than 20 gallons and
shall not weigh more than 50 pounds when filled.
B.Â
Broken containers. Containers that are broken or fail to meet the
requirements of this article may be classified as rubbish and, after
notice to the owner, collected as such.
C.Â
Dumpsters. Multifamily units, commercial and industrial properties
shall be permitted to use self-loading containers, provided the same
are of substantial construction and designed to prevent the scattering
of materials stored therein. All self-loading containers shall be
located in a screened storage area accessible for disposal, but out
of the sight of public access.
D.Â
Storage. All containers used for disposal of waste shall be stored
in screened areas not visible from the public right-of-way.
A.Â
It shall be unlawful for any person other than collectors authorized
by the City Council of the City of Bridgman to collect, handle or
interfere in any manner with garbage, trash and rubbish or refuse
containers.
B.Â
The waste materials collected by the City, whether under contract
with a licensed contractor or through its own City Department, shall
be limited to garbage, trash and rubbish as those items are defined
under this article. The City shall not collect builders or contractors
refuse, excess yard waste or polluted waste.
C.Â
All garbage, trash and rubbish collected by the City, whether under
contract with a licensed contractor or through its own City Department,
shall be set out, properly bundled and in proper containers as provided
by this article, in plain view along the street or alley, readily
accessible to collectors on such designated collection days as may
be specified by the City Council of the City of Bridgman.
D.Â
Waste containers placed in the street or alley shall be promptly
removed therefrom by such owners, tenant, lessee or occupant after
same shall have been emptied.
E.Â
All commercial (except apartment buildings), business and industrial
establishments shall make their own independent arrangements for the
removal of excess garbage, trash and rubbish exceeding four twenty-gallon
containers per week. All apartment buildings, commercial and industrial
establishments utilizing dumpsters shall make independent arrangements
for removal of refuse.
F.Â
No owner, tenant, lessee or occupant shall permit garbage, trash
or rubbish to stand along the street or alley waiting for collection
for a continuous period in excess of two days.
The following provisions shall apply to any rubbish in the City
of Bridgman:
A.Â
Burning and burying. No person shall throw garbage, trash or rubbish
upon the ground or bury the same on any premises, public or private,
nor shall any person burn any garbage, trash, or rubbish without a
permit from the Fire Chief. Nothing in this article shall prohibit
the proper composting of organics by private citizens. "Organics"
shall be defined as grass clippings, leaves, brush, branches, other
landscape trimmings, clean wood, and some plant-derived food processing
by-products and food-soiled paper products.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
B.Â
Depositing and scattering. No person, firm or corporation shall deposit
or scatter any garbage, trash or rubbish on any public street, alley
or private or public property anywhere in the City of Bridgman.
C.Â
Cleanliness. It shall be the duty of every owner, tenant, lessee
or occupant of any residence, apartment building, commercial or industrial
building, having garbage, trash or rubbish material to provide for
and have within said building or on said premises, storage containers
of sufficient size to handle the accumulation of garbage, trash or
rubbish on the premises during the intervals between collections of
same. In all cases where the collections of excess quantities of commercial
or industrial garbage, trash or rubbish are not taken care of by the
City, such accumulations shall be promptly disposed of by private
contract to the end that the premises and grounds are always kept
in a clean, neat, sanitary and orderly condition.
Transportation of all garbage, trash and rubbish through streets,
alleys or thoroughfares within the City limits shall be handled in
such manner so as not to create a nuisance, and all collection vehicles
shall have completely enclosed, watertight bodies.
A.Â
Residential collections. The City Hall provides for collection from
each residence all garbage, trash and rubbish as herein defined if
properly placed for collection by the householder. Householders shall
place all garbage and rubbish in proper containers as required by this
article, except that items which will not conveniently fit inside
a proper container will be collected if tied securely in bundles not
exceeding four feet in length; provided, however, that any type of
refuse not capable of being conveniently loaded into a packer-type
truck will not be collected. Discarded Christmas trees will be collected
each year, from residents, if cut in lengths not exceeding four feet.
B.Â
Commercial and industrial collections. The City shall collect from
each business, commercial or industrial establishment garbage, trash
and rubbish if properly placed for collection by the owner or occupant
of the building; subject, however, to the following volume limitations:
the City will not collect more than four twenty-gallon capacity containers
or the equivalent thereof per week. Commercial, business or industrial
garbage, trash or rubbish in excess of the above limitations shall
be regularly collected or caused to be collected and disposed of by
the proprietor or occupant of the place of business using same at
his own expense in a lawful manner. It is expressly provided that
the owner, proprietor or occupant of the place of business shall make
his separate and independent negotiations with the then-existing contractor
who has the contract with the City for the picking up of garbage,
trash and rubbish.
C.Â
Collection times. All garbage and refuse containers must be placed
properly for collection no later than 7:30 a.m. on the day scheduled
for collection. Containers shall be removed from such location within
a reasonable time after refuse has been collected by the City contractor.
All collections will be made between the hours of 7:30 a.m. and 7:30
p.m. No collections will be scheduled for any Saturday or Sunday.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
Any person, firm or corporation who violates any of the provisions
of this article shall, in addition to the other provisions of this
article, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by
a fine of not more than $500 or by imprisonment in the county jail
not to exceed 90 days or by both such fine and imprisonment. Each
day of violation continued to exist shall constitute a separate offense.
