The city shall charge the following sums per month for collection
of garbage and trash from residences:
(Resolution 20-021 adopted 9/15/20; Ordinance 22-027 adopted 9/20/22; Resolution 23-002 adopted 2/7/2023)
An extra charge shall be assessed for pick-up of brush and tree
limbs that are too bulky to be tied in bundles. Brush and limbs shall
be stacked on the parkway for pick-up and charged as follows:
(1)
Manual
pick-up: $28.42.
(2)
Mechanical
pick-up-less than 1/2 load: $92.65.
(3)
Mechanical
pick-up-1/2 load: $142.70.
(4)
Mechanical
pick-up-full truckload: $188.40.
(Resolution 20-021 adopted 9/15/20; Ordinance 22-027 adopted 9/20/22; Resolution 23-002 adopted 2/7/2023)
(Resolution 20-021 adopted 9/15/20; Ordinance 22-027 adopted 9/20/22; Resolution 23-002 adopted 2/7/2023)
(a)
The
city shall for its services in removing garbage and trash from all
businesses, lodging houses, boarding houses, commercial institutions,
individual businesses, firms or corporations, churches, schools, office
buildings and properties, charge for containers placed at any of such
establishments, sanitation charges based upon the following schedule:
|
Collections per 6-day week
|
Number of 3-yard containers
| |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|
1
|
2
|
3
|
4
|
|
3
|
$135.90
|
$271.79
|
$407.70
|
$543.59
|
|
6
|
$271.79
|
$543.59
|
$815.38
|
$1,087.18
|
|
12
|
$543.59
|
$1,087.18
|
$1,630.77
|
$2,174.36
|
|
18
|
$815.38
|
$1,630.77
|
$2,446.15
|
$3,261.54
|
(b)
Nothing
in this schedule shall prevent the superintendent of sanitation from
calculating rates which are lower or which exceed the schedule as
long as time, volume, and number of pick-ups are the basis for such
calculation.
(Resolution 19-013 adopted 9/17/19; Resolution 20-021 adopted 9/15/20; Ordinance
22-027 adopted 9/20/22; Resolution 23-002 adopted 2/7/2023)
A one-time fee of one hundred and fifty-nine dollars ($159.00)
for garbage collection services will be charged at the time of issuance
of a building permit for residential construction where the property
will not be occupied during any or all of the construction, such as
for new homes or major remodels. Garbage collection services will
be rendered to the property during construction as part of the regular
collection service to the area.
(Ordinance 22-027 adopted 9/20/22; Resolution
23-002 adopted 2/7/2023)
The city shall not issue a liquid waste transport to an applicant
until the appropriate established fee is paid. A person shall pay
a fee of two hundred and fifty-four dollars and forty cents ($254.40)
for the first vehicle and one hundred and eighty dollars and twenty
cents ($180.20) for each additional vehicle operated by the person.
Each permit must be renewed annually.
(Ordinance 22-027 adopted 9/20/22; Resolution
23-002 adopted 2/7/2023)
Editor’s note–Resolution 15/007 adopted
by the city council on September 15, 2015, deleted former section
A5.007 pertaining to yard waste bags charge in its entirety.
City residents may use the city’s transfer station once
a month without charge. Use of the transfer station is restricted
to residents, who must be present when off-loading. For more than
one load per month, the following fees shall apply:
(1)
Pick-up
truck: $49.42.
(2)
Single-axle
truck, less than 15-feet long: $92.65.
(3)
Double-axle
truck, more than 15-feet long: $123.54.
(4)
Southern
Methodist University vehicles: $139.60.
(Resolution 19-013 adopted 9/17/19; Resolution 20-021 adopted 9/15/20; Ordinance
22-027 adopted 9/20/22; Resolution 23-002 adopted 2/7/2023)
Each account with a dwelling unit receiving recycling collection
service will be charged a monthly recycling fee:
(1)
Alley/curbside
service: $4.33.
(2)
Carry-out
service: $6.82.
(3)
The
fee for a 32-gallon recycling bin shall be: $40.00.
(Resolution 19-013 adopted 9/17/19; Resolution 20-021 adopted 9/15/20; Ordinance
22-027 adopted 9/20/22; Resolution 23-002 adopted 2/7/2023)
