The Warrenton City Commission finds that the maintenance of
health and sanitation along with an attempt to fairly equalize the
cost of providing a necessary service requires compulsory and universal
collection, removal and disposal of refuse. The City Commission further
finds the public interest is best served by City-operated collection
services.
(Ord. 892-A § 1, 1992)
In this chapter, the following words mean:
"Collector"
means any person, agent, officer or employee of the City
to whom authority is given for the collection and disposal of refuse.
"Commercial refuse"
means solid waste material from stores, shops or similar
enterprises. These include building rubbish, cardboard, papers, bottles,
cans, furniture and bedding.
"Construction materials"
means and includes cement, plaster, lumber, bricks, stone,
wire, nails, metal and other building materials commonly used in construction
and repair work.
"Disposal area"
means any area designated or provided by the City Commission
for the purpose of disposal of refuse.
"Food-processing waste"
means all accumulated refuse from animal, fruit and vegetable
matter, liquid or otherwise, that attends the preparation and/or use
of meat, fish, vegetables and fruit, which is subject to decay and
attraction for flies and rodents.
"Garbage"
means all putrescible wastes, except sewage and body wastes,
including vegetable waste, animal offal, carcasses of dead animals
and including all substances from all public and private establishments
and residences, but not including recognized industrial by-products.
"Hazardous materials"
means materials such as, but not limited to, motor oil, gasoline,
diesel fuel or other flammable liquids, paints, pesticides and herbicides,
toxic chemicals, asbestos and also including infectious waste from
medical, dental, veterinary clinics or other similar facilities.
"Industrial refuse"
means solid waste materials from factories, processing plants
or other manufacturing enterprises. The words include putrescible
garbage from food-processing plants and slaughterhouses, condemned
foods and miscellaneous manufacturing refuse.
"Refuse"
means ashes, garbage, rubbish, swill and all other putrescible
and nonputrescible wastes, except sewage, from all public and private
establishments and residences.
"Rubbish"
means all nonputrescible waste materials, except ashes, which
are rejected, abandoned or discarded by the owners or producers thereof
as offensive, useless or no longer desired by producers thereof and
which, by their presence, may injuriously affect the health, comfort
or safety of the community by increasing disease or hazard by fire.
The term includes paper, cartons, boxes, bottles, cans, wood, tree
branches, yard trimmings, furniture, bedding, metals, glass, crockery
and similar substances or materials of the nature described from all
public and private establishments or residences.
"Swill"
means every refuse accumulation of animal, fruit or vegetable
matter, liquid or otherwise, that attends the preparation, use, cooking,
dealing in or storing of meat, fish, fowl, fruit and vegetables, that
is subject to decay and/or the attraction of flies or rodents.
"Transfer station"
means any area designated or provided by the City Commission
for the purpose of disposal of refuse.
"User"
means any tenant, occupant or owner of a building or site
on the City's collection route, that is assigned an account and/or
tap number for the purpose of using a collector of refuse.
(Ord. 892-A § 2, 1992)
Police officers and all employees of the Public Works Department
shall enforce this chapter and are authorized to enter for the limited
purpose of fulfilling its purposes.
(Ord. 892-A § 3, 1992)
The City Manager shall adopt, modify and enforce rules and regulations
for collecting and disposing of refuse and other waste material and
for all other purposes deemed necessary for the proper conduct of
collecting and disposing of refuse or other waste material. All rules
and regulations shall first be approved by the City Commission.
(Ord. 892-A § 4, 1992)
The rules and regulations shall be plainly printed or typewritten
and maintained subject to inspection in the City Hall. The City Manager
may prescribe rules or regulations which may be enforced by the City
in a civil action. All rules and regulations promulgated under authority
of this section, and all amendments thereto, shall be filed with the
City Commission for approval at its next meeting following such promulgation.
(Ord. 892-A § 5, 1992)
An application for services is required in accordance with the
rules and regulations for the Warrenton Water Department.
The City will not allow a new utility service to customers with
an outstanding balance on their account(s) with the City until the
entire balance that has accrued to the former account(s) has been
paid in full.
(Ord. 1192-A § 1, 2014)
Paper, bottle or other approved drives may be carried on from
time to time by nonprofit institutions or organizations under permit
from, and in accordance with, rules and regulations prescribed by
the City Manager. No charge may be made against refuse customers for
the removal of such items, and no claim may be made by the collector
because of loss of business.
(Ord. 892-A § 9, 1992)
All rates and methods of billing will be designated by resolution
and approved by the City Commission.
(Ord. 892-A § 10, 1992)
Owners of multiple dwellings or apartments (two or more families)
shall ultimately be responsible for payment of refuse collection services
rendered to premises owned by them, even though the individual apartments
or dwellings are serviced by separate water taps or meters.
(Ord. 892-A § 12, 1992)
No person may dump, place or deposit upon any lot or property
owned by any other person any garbage, swill, dirt, rubbish, refuse
or other waste material except that dirt and clean fill material may
be dumped or deposited upon any lot or property owned by any other
person within the City after first obtaining the written consent of
the owner or legal occupant of such property.
(Ord. 892-A § 15, 1992)
No person may dump, place or deposit upon any of the public
streets, alleys, parks or lots of the City any garbage, rubbish, refuse
or other waste materials.
(Ord. 892-A § 16, 1992)
No person may transport industrial refuse produced by such person
upon or through any street or public place of the City unless such
person obtains permission to do so from the City Manager or designate.
(Ord. 892-A § 17, 1992)
Any fees, charges, taxes or other penalties that are assessed,
requested or required by this chapter or any resolution relating to
this chapter are classified as not subject to the limits of Section
11b, Article XI of the Oregon Constitution.
(Ord. 892-A § 18, 1992)