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:
Collector.
Any person specifically authorized by the city to empty garbage cans or trash receptacles or to convey or transport garbage or trash on the streets and public thoroughfares of the city.
Garbage.
All animal or vegetable matter, such as waste material and refuse from kitchens, residences, grocery stores, butcher shops, restaurants, cafes, drugstores, hotels, rooming houses and boarding homes, and other deleterious substances.
Person.
Any person, firm or corporation, and their agents, servants, tenants or employees.
Trash.
All rubbish, such as feathers, coffee grounds, ashes, tin cans, paper bags, boxes, glass, newspapers, magazines, and other such paper products, grass, shrubs, flowers, yard cleanings, leaves, grass clippings, tree trimmings, tile, plaster and other such substances.
(1999 Code, sec. 74-1)
It shall be unlawful for any person to sweep, haul, throw or deposit any garbage, trash, dirt, concrete, rocks, brick, plaster, tile, stagnant water or dead animal into, upon or along any drain, gutter, alley, sidewalk, parkway, street or vacant lot, or upon any public or private premises within the corporate limits of the city.
(1999 Code, sec. 74-2)
Every owner, occupant, tenant or lessee using or occupying any building, house or structure within the corporate limits of the city for residences, churches, schools, colleges, universities, lodges, commercial or industrial business, or other purposes shall provide and maintain garbage cans and receptacles of sufficient number and type as specified in section 22.05.004, to hold the garbage and trash that will normally accumulate on the premises.
(1999 Code, sec. 74-3)
(a) 
Capacity, weight, material and construction.
Each of such owners, occupants, tenants or lessees shall provide a container for garbage and trash of not more than 32 gallons capacity and weighing no more than 65 pounds when full, constructed of some substantial material, watertight, and with a tightfitting lid or cover, and with handles sufficiently strong for workers to empty conveniently. The containers must not have any inside structures such as inside bands or reinforcing angles or anything within the containers to prevent the free discharge of the contents. Containers that have deteriorated, or that have been damaged to the extent of having jagged or sharp edges capable of causing injury to the persons whose duty it is to handle the containers, or to such extent that the covers will not fit securely, may be condemned by the city, and if such containers are not replaced after due notice to the owner or user of their defective condition, such containers may be confiscated or alternatively not serviced, and the owners shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
(b) 
Lids or covers.
The lids or covers of all containers shall be at all times kept secure so that flies and other insects may not have access to the contents thereof, and such lids or covers shall only be removed while the containers are being filled or emptied, as the case may be. Such lids or covers shall not be wired to, tied on or otherwise secured to the containers.
(c) 
Number of containers and bundles collected.
Each of such owners, occupants, tenants or lessees shall be entitled to the service specified in this article at the rate designated by the city council, provided that such owner, occupant, tenant or lessee requires service on no more than five containers as specified in subsection (a) of this section, or tied bundles as specified in section 22.05.006, not exceeding five in number. If such owner, occupant, tenant or lessee requires service on more than five containers, bundles, or any combination thereof, such owner, occupant, tenant or lessee shall individually contract the collector for service on the additional containers or bundles.
(1999 Code, sec. 74-4)
The owner, occupant, tenant or lessee of every house, building or premises from which the yard waste, solid waste or recyclables are to be collected or removed is hereby required to place any container or bag for collection at the curb or edge of the pavement of the street abutting such house, building or premises not earlier than 6:00 p.m. on the day prior to the day designated for collection of such house, building or premises in the city's solid waste collection agreement. No container or bag shall be left at the curb or the edge of the pavement longer than 6:00 p.m. on the day after collection. No container or bag shall be placed for storage at a point nearer the street than the front of each principal house, building, dwelling unit or shelter, except upon specific authorization of the city council.
(1999 Code, sec. 74-5)
If trash is of such nature that it cannot be put in the regulation containers, it shall be placed in disposable containers or in a neat and orderly tied bundle, and placed for collection at the place designated for collecting the garbage and trash. Tree limbs and hedge clippings shall not exceed 40 inches in length, and no single tree limb, stump or cutting shall exceed 45 pounds. Trash collected under this section shall not exceed the five-container limit designated in section 22.05.004(c) on any one collection day; provided, however, that one bundle designated in this section shall be equivalent to one container for the purposes of determining the number of containers of garbage or trash. It shall be unlawful for any person to place trash in the street or sidewalk so as to obstruct or hamper vehicular or pedestrian traffic.
(1999 Code, sec. 74-6)
All garbage, trash and refuse that is mixed with water or other liquids shall be thoroughly drained before being put in garbage and trash cans and receptacles for collection. All animal matter that is subject to decomposition shall be well wrapped in paper or other combustible material before being deposited in such can or receptacle.
(1999 Code, sec. 74-16)
Rock, dirt, concrete, brick, tile, plaster, waste, scrap building materials, or other trash resulting from construction or major remodeling, resulting from a general cleanup of vacant or improved property just prior to its occupancy, or resulting from sizable amounts of trees, brush and debris cleared from the property in preparation for construction, will not be removed by the city as regular service. The owner will have such debris removed at his expense.
(1999 Code, sec. 74-9)
It shall be the duty of any person employing, engaging or otherwise paying a contractor, student, professional tree trimmer, or any other person to trim and prune his trees or shrubs to have the trimmings and debris removed at the owner's expense. The city will not remove trimmings and debris created by such persons as regular service.
(1999 Code, sec. 74-10)
No person except the duly authorized agents and employees of the city shall empty garbage cans or trash receptacles or convey or transport garbage or trash on the streets, alleys and public thoroughfares of the city without a written permit granted and issued by the city manager, unless otherwise so authorized by this article.
(1999 Code, sec. 74-11)
(a) 
Residential premises.
Any house, building or premises within the incorporated limits of the city used for residential purposes shall have its garbage, trash and refuse collected and removed by the duly authorized agents or employees of the city at a charge as set by contract, plus applicable sales tax.
(b) 
Industrial and commercial premises.
Any house, building or premises within the incorporated limits of the city used for industrial and/or commercial business purposes shall have its garbage, trash and refuse collected and removed by the collector at a monthly charge to be negotiated between the collector and the customer, such charge to be determined by the number of times each week that collection and removal of garbage, trash and refuse is required, plus the amount of garbage, trash and refuse collected and removed. Billing and collection for such service shall be done by the collector.
(c) 
Churches and fraternal organizations.
Any church or other building or premises within the incorporated limits of the city used for religious worship, and any building or premises used for lodges and fraternal organizations, shall have its garbage, trash and refuse collected and removed by the collector at a monthly charge to be negotiated between the collector and the customer. Such charge shall be determined by the number of times each week that collection and removal of garbage, trash and refuse is required, plus the amount of garbage, trash and refuse collected and removed. Billing and collection for such service shall be done by the collector.
(d) 
Minimum service.
The minimum service to be rendered shall be once each week. Should any place of business not be specifically designated by name, such error or omission will not relieve the owner, occupant, tenant or lessee of the binding effect of this article, but the same charge shall be made as that entered against a business of a like or similar nature.
(e) 
Composting program fee.
Effective for the first utility billing following the effective date of this subsection, there is hereby imposed on each residential solid waste collection account a fee in the amount of $0.25 per month to be collected and used by the city to pay the costs for composting residential yard waste and other compostable household solid waste.
(1999 Code, sec. 74-13; 1999 Code, sec. 74-14; Ordinance 2020-1279 adopted 12/8/20)
(a) 
Billing procedures; late payment charge.
The monetary charges for residential service of collection and removal of garbage, trash and refuse shall be enclosed with the monthly water bill sent to each house, building or premises located within the incorporated limits of the city, and shall be payable monthly upon bills being rendered by the waterworks department of the city, and shall be paid to the waterworks department of the city. The charges provided in this article shall become delinquent ten days after the bill is rendered and as printed on the face of the bill. The bill, as rendered, shall be the net amount of the bill; provided, however, that if such bill is not paid before the delinquency and is paid after the bill becomes delinquent, a penalty of ten percent shall be added thereto and shall become a part of the bill, which penalty shall be printed on the bill. All bills shall be considered rendered when sent to the consumer by the waterworks department of the city, and the failure to receive any such bill by any consumer shall in no manner relieve such consumer of the duty and necessity of paying for the service furnished under the terms specified in this section.
(b) 
Failure to pay charges.
Every owner, occupant, tenant or lessee of a house, building or premises within the city used for residential, industrial or commercial purposes to whom a bill for collection and removal of garbage, trash and refuse has been rendered who shall fail or refuse to pay the charge in such bill shall be subject to a discontinuation of utility service furnished such owner, occupant, tenant or lessee by the city. The city is privileged to continue such discontinuation until such fees have been paid in full, or satisfactory arrangements therefor have been made with the city's water department.
(1999 Code, sec. 74-14)
The collection and removal of garbage, trash and refuse shall be carried on in a systematic and efficient manner, keeping the entire city in a clean and sanitary condition. Every owner, occupant, tenant or lessee of a house, building or premises used for residential, industrial or commercial purposes is required to maintain constant supervision and surveillance over the garbage and trash cans and receptacles servicing his premises, and if the garbage and trash cans and receptacles should not be emptied and the contents removed by a duly authorized agent or employee of the city for a period of five days, he must notify the city of this fact within five days.
(1999 Code, sec. 74-15)
No community or public trash can or receptacle (those provided by the city or by the community, civic or similar groups) shall be used by any person for the purpose of depositing therein personal, business or industrial trash, rubbish, junk or garbage from home or business use. The community or public trash cans and receptacles are for the deposit of litter or trash from streets and other public places only.
(1999 Code, sec. 74-17)
It shall be unlawful for any person to throw, place or deposit, or cause to be thrown, placed or deposited, or suffer or permit his servant or any other person in his family to throw or deposit, in any street, alley, gutter, ditch, lot or other place in this city, the carcass of any dead animal or fowl or any meat, fish, hides, skins, bones, offal, manure, fruit, vegetables, litter, debris, melon rinds, fruit peelings, slop, trash or other unsound or offensive matter or matter liable to become offensive or injurious to the health of those who reside in the vicinity or owned or controlled by him, or to throw, place or deposit, or cause to be thrown, placed or deposited, or permit to suffer his servant or other persons in his family to throw, place or deposit, in any street, alley, gutter, ditch or other public place, or upon any lot or other premises not owned or controlled by him, tires, bottles, cans, loose paper, rags, scraps of leather, shavings, dishwater, chips, debris, litter or trash.
(1999 Code, sec. 74-18)
No person, other than the current resident of the property on which recyclable or reusable materials are placed for collection or an authorized carrier, shall remove, pick up or transfer recyclable or reusable materials left at curbside in any residential subdivision or at any single-family residence. Materials left at curbside in either specifically marked recovery containers or any other type of container are to be picked up by a designated carrier for the purpose of removal of recyclable or reusable materials. Each unauthorized removal of any items from a residential subdivision location or a single-family residence location shall constitute a separate violation of this section. For purposes of this section, recyclable or reusable material shall mean any material specifically designated by the city council as part of a recycling or reuse program.
(1999 Code, sec. 38-26)