There is hereby created the Sanitation Department of the City
of Weatherford, whose duties shall be to collect and dispose of all
garbage as approved by the City Commission.
1.
Each and every person within the City of Weatherford shall provide,
keep and maintain a sufficient number of containers to contain all
garbage, cans, rubbish, ashes, and trash produced by said person between
collection periods. The containers shall be located upon or adjacent
to the person's premises and at points designated by the collectors.
2.
Large pieces of rubbish, such as boxes, cartons, tree branches when
securely tied into bundles, discarded furniture, and other articles
too large to be readily placed in containers, shall be conveniently
accessible to the collectors in sizes easily loaded by one person
onto a collection vehicle. Such containers must be made of watertight
galvanized iron, fiberglass, or plastic, and shall be in sizes easily
loaded by one person onto a collection vehicle and shall not exceed
the size of 32 gallons in capacity.
3.
Containers that have deteriorated, or that have been damaged to the
extent of being badly dented, leaking, without handles or bails, or
without covers, having ill-fitted covers, or having jagged or sharp
edges capable of causing injury to collection employees, shall upon
notice be immediately replaced or satisfactorily repaired.
4.
In the event that any person fails or refuses, after 10 days'
notice to replace a defective container or containers as herein provided,
the City of Weatherford, through its City Administrator, shall supply
or replace additional containers, and the cost will be added to the
next month's garbage bill of such person.
5.
It shall be the duty of each person within the City of Weatherford
to deposit all garbage and trash from such person's premises,
in the container or containers as provided in this section for collection.
6.
It shall be the duty of every person placing garbage or trash in
any trash or garbage container to drain as far as practicable all
water and liquid from the garbage or trash, and to securely wrap it
in paper or other material before placing it in the containers.
7.
It shall be the further duty of such person to store and keep all
garbage and trash containers off the streets, curbs, gutters, and
sidewalks, and away from public view, inaccessible to dogs, and in
places readily and conveniently accessible to the collectors, and
where the collectors will not be exposed to vicious or threatening
dogs in making collections.
The EMCO system of garbage (and other refuse) collection as described herein is adopted. The changeover from the present system to the EMCO system shall be made in stages and by areas as determined by the city. Present regulations as set out in Section 20-97 of this Chapter shall remain in effect in all areas of the city until such time as the aforementioned changeover to EMCO actually occurs within a designated area. At that time Section 20-97 is replaced by the EMCO system regulations for that particular area.
1.
Residential Areas.
a.
Areas With Alleys. Where practical all residential areas with alleys
will be provided with dumpsters designed and placed at city designated
locations for use by several families.
b.
Areas Without Alleys. In residential areas without alleys, and/or areas or subareas, not suitable for multiple family dumpsters, each residence will be required to comply with the provisions set out in Section 20-97. On collection days the family user shall move its containers to the place designated by the city for collection purposes. This pickup placement by resident shall be prior to the time of scheduled arrival of the collection truck and when emptied the resident user shall remove the container from the designated pickup place, street side or other, to a place on resident's property other than the front yard. In those special cases where the residential user is unable to place the container at the pickup place due to sickness, infirmity, or other justifiable cause, the city will provide assistance during the period of disability of the user, and at no additional expense to the user.
2.
Commercial Users. Commercial and other city designated nonresidential
facilities shall be served exclusively by commercial type dumpsters
furnished on loan by the city and placed by the city at city selected
locations on or in immediate vicinity of such user's facilities.
3.
Repair or Replacement of Equipment. The aforementioned dumpsters
are owned exclusively by the city and are loaned to users who shall
use and maintain the same in a reasonable manner and in accordance
with the following regulations:
a.
A user shall be responsible to the city for any damage to such equipment
caused deliberately by user or by user's negligence.
b.
The cost of repair or replacement of any dumpster because of such
ill use aforesaid shall be the responsibility of the assigned user
and the cost of such repair or replacement may be added to the charges
for user's city furnished utilities.
c.
The billing for such damage or replacement charges may be by lump
sum on a single monthly billings or may be prorated with installment
payments over several months if the city so elects.
d.
Deterioration of such equipment through the ordinary and reasonable
use shall create no liability upon user for such repair or replacement.
4.
Preparation of Materials for Collection by City.
a.
It shall be the duty of each person within the City of Weatherford
to deposit all garbage and trash from such person's premises
in the containers and/or dumpsters as provided by the city for collection.
Every person placing garbage or small items of trash in any container
or dumpster shall drain all water and other liquids from such garbage
and trash and securely wrap it in paper or other suitable material
before placing it in any of the containers.
b.
Other types of refuse, unusual or large pieces of refuse, collapsed
boxes, collapsed cartons, tree limbs and branches when securely tied
into small bundles easily handled by one man (to be placed on a special
collection vehicle commonly called a limb truck), furniture and other
articles too large to be placed in containers or dumpsters, shall
be placed in an orderly manner at the pickup site, but only placed
there on the scheduled pickup date of the limb truck.
c.
Removal of refuse exceeding the above shall be the sole responsibility of the individual or firm possessing same, except as otherwise provided in Section 20-101 of this Chapter.
d.
Grass or weed clippings shall be sacked or otherwise accumulated
in suitable containers easily loaded by one person.
e.
Under no circumstances shall lawn grass or weed clippings or the
like be dumped or scattered on or about the surface of any alley,
street or sidewalk or other public or privately owned property.
It shall be the duty of all users to keep the aforementioned
containers off the streets, curbs, gutters and sidewalks and away
from public view except on regular scheduled days for pickup by the
city's collection truck at the place (and only at such place)
designated for placement of the containers on pickup days.
No waste building material such as stone, mortar, bricks, sand,
or lumber from construction, repair, or reconstruction operations,
will be removed by the collector. Such wastes or rubbish shall be
removed by the contractor, owner, or occupant of the building or premises
under repair, construction, or reconstruction operations, at his own
proper expense; and at no time shall such materials be placed in any
garbage container or on, or in, any other property or vacant lot,
or in any street or alley so as to inconvenience or endanger the public.
Dead animal bodies too large to go into garbage containers specified
above, discarded automobile bodies, frames, and other heavy or bulky
refuse, and all industrial wastes shall be disposed of in such manner
and place and within such time as shall be designated by the City
Administrator.
1.
The following acts, among others, are hereby declared to be and constitute
a nuisance and in violation of this article, to wit:
a.
The throwing, placing, dumping, or depositing of any garbage or refuse
of any kind on lots, vacant or occupied, driveways, or other private
property, whether such premises are owned or occupied by the person
so offending or not.
b.
The throwing, placing, dumping, or depositing of any garbage or refuse
of any kind on or in any gutter, street, sidewalk, parkway, driveway,
curb, alley, park, or any other public property of the City of Weatherford.
2.
It shall be unlawful for any owner, lessee, agent, tenant, or occupant
of any premises to permit any woods, briars, brush, or other vegetation
to grow, or remain upon any sidewalk, gutter or park space abutting
upon any premises owned by, or controlled by, them or any of them,
so as to become offensive or emit foul or obnoxious odors, or to hinder
traffic, or to become a breeding or harboring place for insects or
rodents, or to become in any way hazardous or injurious to the public
health.
3.
It shall be unlawful for any person to permit or cause to remain
in, on, or about his premises, or any other premises, private or public,
any garbage or stagnant water or combination or residue thereof, which
is unsanitary, emits odors, or serves as food or breeding places for
flies, insects, rodents, stray animals, or may be injurious to public
health.
4.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to haul,
transport, discharge, dump, or unload any garbage, or other waste
matter at any place within the City of Weatherford, or within its
jurisdiction, other than at such place as may be designated by the
City Administrator.
5.
Except under conditions of emergency to be determined by the City
Commission, it shall be unlawful for any person other than persons
regularly employed by the City of Weatherford and under the direct
supervision of the City Administrator, to collect, remove, or dispose
of, any garbage, within or for the City of Weatherford.
6.
No garbage shall be used for hog food unless it is first boiled before
feeding to hogs in adequate equipment and in a manner approved by
the Health Officer.
1.
For the purpose of defraying the expenses of garbage collection and
disposal upon an equitable basis, the houses, shops, residences, establishments,
the places of business within the City of Weatherford shall be and
are classified as in the resolution adopted by the City Commission.
a.
Private residence, apartments, trailer homes, and townhouses serviced
by one water meter: not less than $3 for each living unit and not
less than $1 extra charge where no alley exists and garbage must be
carried from the living unit.
b.
Private residence, apartments, trailer homes, and townhouses where
two or more units are serviced by one water meter: not less than $3
per living unit whether full or empty.
c.
Multi-efficiency, sleeping rooms, motels and hospitals serviced by
one water meter: not less than $3 for the first unit and not less
than $0.50 for all additional units whether full or empty.
d.
Businesses and industrial rates (business, schools, and industries
will be set by the administration from time to time or by contract
depending on the amount of garbage and time involved with a minimum
of no less than $4.50 per month.
e.
Brush, rubbish and plunder pickup rates will be charged by the load
at a rate to be fixed by the administration.
f.
All recipients receiving water, sewer, or both services shall be
required to pay no less than the minimum garbage fee.
2.
The owner or administrator is to be accountable for such billing
and usage set forth above or as established by the City Commission.
The sums fixed and charged in this section become due and payable
on a date established by resolution by the City Commission. Such sums
are to be made payable to the City of Weatherford in the Weatherford
Municipal Building at the same time that water bills are paid. The
sums so charged when collected shall be delivered to the City Treasurer
and credited to appropriate fund.
3.
All residences and businesses within the City of Weatherford are
required to use the city's solid waste disposal system.
The Utility Office shall bill the owner or occupant of each
house, residence, shop, hotel, restaurant, market, apartment, or any
other business, or residence establishment, within the corporate limits
of the City of Weatherford for the sums herein before fixed, monthly;
but failure on the part of any person to receive such notice shall
in no way relieve such person from the responsibility to pay the sum;
nor shall failure relieve the owner of any property from the effect
and operation of the lien for such sum, provided by statute.
1.
Whenever any person owning or controlling any house, shop, residence,
establishment, or place of business, within the limits of the City
of Weatherford shall fail or refuse to pay the amount specified by
this article to be paid for the removal of such garbage, or if any
person shall suffer garbage thrown, left, or deposited in or upon
the premises under his control other than in the proper receptacle
as provided by this article, and shall fail or refuse to place the
same in such proper receptacle within 48 hours after the same is thrown,
left, or deposited on such premises, then and in that event the Administrator
of the City of Weatherford shall remove the same from the premises;
and in such case, an assessment shall be made against the property,
if any, especially benefited by such removal.
2.
The assessment provided for in this section shall be made by the
City Commission from data furnished as proved by the statutes of the
State of Oklahoma.
3.
The City Commission shall make an assessment roll containing in column
the name of the owners of each lot or parcel of lands.
4.
After the assessment roll provided for in the section is made out
and filed with the City Clerk, the City Clerk shall give the 10 days'
notice by the (1) publication in the official newspaper of the City
of Weatherford that the assessment roll is on file in the City Clerk's
office, which notice shall describe the removal and state what was
removed, and (2) shall state a time at which the City Administrator
will meet to hear appeals or protest of the parties aggrieved by such
assessment.
5.
At the time fixed for such appeal or protest meeting, provided for
hereby, the City Commission shall meet and hear any party interested
in the regularity of the proceedings, or in the correctness of the
amount of such assessment, or of the amount levied upon any particular
lot or parcel of land; and if the proceedings are found to be regular,
they shall correct any errors which may have been found in the assessment,
and shall thereupon by resolution, direct the confirmation of such
proceedings, and the proceedings and assessments as so confirmed shall
thereafter be deemed the final determination of the regularity, validity
and correctness of the assessment and the amount thereof.
On or before the first day of October of each year, the City
Clerk shall certify to the City Commission a statement of all assessments
delinquent under this article describing the land affected and giving
the amount of the assessment with penalty added at the rate of 1%
per month, after which the assessment shall be a lien upon such lot
or parcel of land described in such confirmed assessment roll, and
it shall be the duty of the City Clerk to make out, sign, attest with
the seal of the City of Weatherford, and file a record in the office
of the County Clerk of Custer County, Oklahoma, a lien claim therefor;
and all subsequent purchasers, mortgagees, or encumbrancer of such
lot or parcel of land take the same, subject to such lien. Such lien
shall bear interest at the rate of 8% per annum from the date of filing
thereof until paid, and after such recording may be sold and assigned
to any person for its face value with interest and may be foreclosed
at any time after such recordings in the same manner as provided for
the foreclosing of mortgages on real estate.
Persons, vehicles, or anything that blocks, obstructs or hinders
the use or service to any dumpster will be removed from the premises
by whatever means necessary.
1.
SCAVENGING – As used herein means the collecting, hauling,
transporting or removal of any material or any residue or part thereof,
of any kind of whatsoever nature, from any dump ground, sanitary landfill,
garbage or trash disposal facility, or sewage disposal facility, provided
or maintained by the city or authority for such purposes.
2.
It is unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, unless expressly
licensed or permitted by the city or authority, to enter upon any
dump ground, sanitary landfill, garbage or trash disposal facility
or sewage disposal facility maintained by the city or authority for
such purposes and engage in scavenging as defined herein.
[Added 2-26-1999, Ordinance
1999-1]
1.
As used in this section:
2.
It is an infraction to place any prohibited item or substance in
a recycling bin if the bin is posted with the following information
printed legibly in basic English.
a.
A descriptive list of the items that may be deposited in the recycling
bin, entitled in boldface capital letters: "ITEMS YOU MAY DEPOSIT
IN THIS RECYCLING BIN:";
b.
At the end of the list in Subsection a, the following statement in
boldface capital letters: "REMOVING FROM THIS BIN ANY ITEM THAT IS
LISTED ABOVE AND THAT YOU DID NOT PLACE IN THE CONTAINER IS A CRIMINAL
OFFENSE OF THEFT, PUNISHABLE BY LAW.";
c.
The following statement in boldface capital letters: "DEPOSIT OF
ANY OTHER ITEM IN THIS RECYCLING BIN IS AGAINST THE LAW.";
d.
The following statement in boldface capital letters, posted on the
recycling collection container in close proximity to the notices required
under Subsections (2)(a), (b), and (c): "PLACING ANY ITEM OR SUBSTANCE
IN THIS RECYCLING BIN OTHER THAN THOSE ALLOWED IN THE LIST POSTED
ON THIS BIN IS AN INFRACTION, PUNISHABLE AS PROVIDED IN SECTION 20-111
OF THIS CODE.";
e.
The name and telephone number of the entity that owns the recycling
bin or is responsible for its placement and maintenance.
