It shall be a violation of this chapter for any owner of real property within the City to permit or maintain on such lot or land any accumulation of solid waste, or to place or allow to be placed solid waste alongside, next to or on the curb or area between the sidewalk and the curb, the definition of "roadside dumping."
A. 
Generally. No person shall dump or deposit any ashes, rubbish, or garbage upon any lot, yard, premises, curb, right-of-way or street in the City.
B. 
Exception. The above Subsection A shall not apply to the filling of land on private premises by the owner or with his or her permission with ashes or clean fill upon obtaining a permit therefor from the City Manager.
It shall be the duty any person having ownership of any such lot or land to remove or cause to be removed all such solid waste as may be necessary to comply with the requirements of this chapter.
A. 
Annual notice. The City shall provide an annual notification within its Streamline Publication to the public outlining the rules and regulations of the City of Auburn's Solid Waste Ordinance. Each property owner will be presumed to have been given sufficient notice of violations of the City of Auburn's Solid Waste Ordinance for the entire year following this annual public notification.
B. 
First violations and courtesy notice. If the provisions of this chapter are not complied with, then upon a first violation, the Municipal Recycling Enforcement Officer shall provide a written notice, to be physically placed at the property providing the owner or occupant an additional twenty-four-hour notice to either arrange for pick-up and payment for pick-up with the Department of Public Works or, be noticed that the City would provide the curbside collection and invoice the property owner as set forth herein.
C. 
Subsequent violations. If violations within this chapter continue beyond the first instance mentioned in Subsection B herein, then, the Superintendent of Public Works or the Municipal Recycling Enforcement Officer shall have the authority to immediately correct violations, which shall include, without limitation, immediate clean-up and disposal of waste dumped onto the curb, right-of-way or street. Said corrections shall be conducted by the City without additional notice to the owner, who shall subsequently be charged and mailed an invoice for said collection as set forth herein.
D. 
Charges and fees.
(1) 
The charge for the collection, plus a service charge of 50% of the same to cover costs of supervision and administration, shall be billed to the property owner. This charge shall be established at least annually by the City Council through a budget resolution that adopts a City fee schedule.
(2) 
If not paid, said collection charges for clean-ups shall be added to and become in form part of the real property taxes to be assessed and levied upon such lot or land and shall bear interest at the same rate as City real estate taxes and shall be collected and enforced in the same manner as such taxes.
(3) 
Subsequent violations shall be charged at the same fees are set forth herein.