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For the statutory provisions allowing the city council to create such departments, offices and employments as it may find necessary, see RCW 35A.13.090.
For the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this chapter and Chapters 7.12 and 7.16 LMC, there is established and continued a division within the department of community development to be known as the solid waste and recycling division.
(Ord. 1623 § 1, 1973; Ord. 3104 § 1, 2009)
The director of community development, or his/her designee, with such assistance of personnel and equipment as shall be furnished him/her by the city, shall supervise and monitor the collection, removal and disposal of all solid waste and recycling within the city as may be required by contracts between the city and any solid waste and/or recycling disposal company with which the city may contract.
(Ord. 1623 § 1, 1973; Ord. 2355 § 1, 1989; Ord. 3104 § 1, 2009)
There is established and continued a special fund known as the solid waste and recycling fund, previously known as the sanitary fund, into which all sums collected under Chapters 7.12 and 7.16 LMC shall be deposited and from which all expenses for the administration, maintenance and operation of the solid waste and recycling division, previously known as the city sanitary department, shall be paid.
(Ord. 1623 § 1, 1973; Ord. 3104 § 1, 2009)
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The city manager is authorized to provide for the acquisition of such equipment and provide for the employment of such personnel to assist the director of community development, or his/her designee, as in his/her judgment shall seem necessary or advisable.
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All expenditures therefor shall be from the solid waste and recycling fund.
(Ord. 1623 § 1, 1973; Ord. 3104 § 1, 2009)
The city council may enter into contracts for the collection, recycling and/or disposal of solid waste from all residents and businesses within the city with private contractors subject to such terms and conditions as shall be deemed by the city council to be in the best interest of the city. In the event of such contract, all duties and responsibilities theretofore performed by the city shall be performed, to the extent of any contracts with a private contractors, by such contractors. In the event of such contracts, the city shall establish the rates to be charged for such collection, recycling and/or disposal services, and shall collect the same and shall have all rights of enforcement of collection as provided by the laws of the state and the ordinances of the city.
(Ord. 2355 § 9, 1989; Ord. 3104 § 1, 2009)
If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, words or word of this chapter is for any reason found to be unconstitutional or otherwise invalid, such unconstitutionality or invalidity shall not affect the constitutionality or validity of the remaining portions of this chapter, it being expressly declared that each section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, words or word would have been prepared, proposed, adopted, approved and ratified irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses, phrases, words or word be declared or otherwise found unconstitutional or invalid for any reason.
(Ord. 3104 § 1, 2009)
In the event any other city ordinance, whether or not codified, is in conflict with any of the terms of this chapter, the more stringent shall be construed as applicable.
(Ord. 3104 § 1, 2009)