HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance No. 681 ORDINANCE NO. 681
ESTABLISHING GARBAGE REGULATIONS AND
SETTING GARBAGE FEES FOR RESIDENTIAL
AND COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENTS FOR THE
YEAR 1980.
BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Laurel that
Sections 8.12.030, 8.12.040, and 8.12.050 of the Laurel Municipal
Code under Ordinance No. 650 are hereby repealed.
BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Laurel that
there is hereby added to the Laurel Municipal Code to Section 8
the following which is to read:
Section 8.12.030 Residential Garbage Fees The residences
of the City are hereby divided into £air and reasonable types
according to their structure and uses for the purpose of garbage
and trash accumulation. All collections will be either made
from the alley, where alley exists, or from a place easily
accessible to the street from whimh the collections are made.
Collections will not be made from inside structures or enclosures.
The annual residential refuse collection fees for the
calendar year 1980, and until further resolution of the City
Council, for regular collection will be as follows:
single family residences $60.00 per year
two-family residences $120.00 per year
mobile homes (trailers} $60.00 per year
mobile home courts $60.00 for the first unit, and
$54.00 for each subsequent unit
apartment buildings $60.00 for the first unit, and
$54.00 for each subsequent unit
The minimum annual residential refuse collection fee shall be
$60.00 per year. The refuse collection fees may from time to
time be changed by resolution of the Laurel City Council.
Section 8.12.032 Residential-Commercial Combination Garbage
Fees Refuse fees at residences where a portion of the building
or premises is used for commercial or business purposes shall
be increased by the minimum amount of the commercial user class.
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Section 8.12.034 Business~ Commercial~ and Other Non-
Residential Fees The business, commercial, education, and
other non-residential buildings and other institutions are
hereby divided'into fair and reasonable types for the purpose
of collection of garbage and trash accumulation. Collection
will not be made from inside structures or enclosures.
All businesses, commercial, educational, and Other non-
residential buildings shall be placed in a User Class and
Usage Level within the Relative Use Table set forth below:
RELATIVE USE TABLE
Relative Use Units
Usage Level
User
Class A B C D E F
I 1 2 3 4 5 6
II 2 3 4 5 6 8
III 3 5 6 8 9 12
IV 4 6 8 10 12 16
V 5 8 10 13 15 2O
VI 6 9 12 15 18 24
VII 7 11 14 18 21 28
VIII 8 12 16 20 24 32
IX 9 14 18 23 27 36
X 10 15 20 25 30 40
XI 11 17 22 28 33 44
XII 12 18 24 30 36 48
Section 8.12.036 Types of Businesses The following
businesses, commercial, education, and other non-residential
users shall be placed in the User Class as follows:
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Type of Business
Accountant Office
Antique Dealer
Appliance/Furniture Store
Appliance Repair {small appliances)
Art & Craft Shop
Attorney Offices
Auto Dealer
Auto Garages
Auto Parts Store
Automotive Body & Repair Shop
Bakery
Banks
Bar/Cocktail Lounge
Barbers
Beauty Shops
Beer Bar (no food)~
Beer and Food
Beer & Pizza
Bookstore
Bowling Alley
Business Office
Business Supply
Cabinet Shop
Card Room
Car Wash
Churches
Clothing Store
Cocktail Lounge
Coffee & Sandwich Shop
Convenience Markets
Creamery
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User Class
I
I
VI
I
I
I
VI
III
II
III
III
III
VI
I
I
III
VI
VI
I
II
I
I
I
I
II
I
I
VI
III
X
II
Type of Business
Distributor (no services)
Drapery Shop
Dress Shop
Drive-In (limited
Drug (high volume,
Drug--Pharmacy
Dry Goods Store
seating**)
sundry, chain store)
Elevator/Grain
Fast Food
FastFood
Florists
Fraternal Club
Fraternal Hall
Furniture
(inside seating)
(limited seating**)
(liquor license)
(no liquor license)
Garage
Gas Station
Gas Station
Grocery Store
Grocery Store
Grocery Store
Grocery Store
Grocery Store
{no service garage)
(service garage)
{convenience markets)
(small volume neighborhood)
{superettes)
{super markets)
Hardware Store
Hotel/Motei
Implement & Farm Repair Garage
Industrial/Manufacturing
Insurance Offices
Jewelers
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User Class
III
I
I
VI
VIII
III
VI
III
IX
III
II
VI
I
VI
II
III
IV
X
X
II
X
X
VI
III
VIII
X, XI,
I
XII (determined by
sanitation director
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Type of Business User Class
Launderettes
Lumberyards
Machine Shop
Manufacturing
Medical Clinics
Mercantile Store
Mortuary
Motel/Hotel
Neighborhood Market
Newspaper
Novelty Shop
Nursing Home
(small volume
Offices (general business)
Office supply
Pharmacy
Pizza/Beer
Print Shop
Professional Offices
Radio Station
Radio--TV Repair
Ready Mix
Real Estate Office
Recreation Center
RV - Sales - Service
Restaurant
Schools
Second Hand Store
Shoe Repair
Small Appliance Repair
Snowmobile Sales Service
Specialty Shop
Sporting Goods Store
Superettes
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II
IV
II
X, XI, XII
I
VI
II
III
It
It
I
III
I
I
III
VI
I
I
II
II
III
I
VI
II
VI
IV
I
II
I
II
I
II
X
(determined by
sanitation director
Type of Business User Class
Supermarkets X
Theater II
Tire Repair & Sales III
Trucking IV
Woodwork Shop
I
**Limited seating defined as less than 12
Businesses and commercial users classified into two or more
classes will be placed in the highest user class.
Usage level may be reviewed by the Director of Sanitation upon
request of the business or commercial user, but no more than
once a calendar year.
The Relative Use Table attached is hereby adopted.
Section 8.12.040 Sanitation Director Determination The
Sanitation Director will make determination of the User Class
for any business, commercial, educational or other non-residential
building and other institutions which are not categorized in this
~rdinance.
Section 8.12.042 Commercial Rates The calendar year
refuse collection fee for businesses, commercial, educational,
and other non-residential buildings and other institutions
shall be equal to the Relative Use Unit in the table set forth
in Section 8.12.034 multiplied by the minimum residential rate.
Section 8.12.044 Minimum Fee Commercial Rate The minimum
fee for each business, commercial, educational, and other non-
residential building and other institution shall not be less
than the minimum annual residential fee.
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Section B.12.0~6 Sanitation Director Determination
A. Each business, commercial, educational, and other non-
residential building and other institution shall be placed
in a Usage Level of the table, set forth in Section 8.12.032~
by the Sanitation Director after determination of the type
of garbage, the amount of usage, and the required pickups
of the user. The minimum fee for a business, commercial,
educational, and other non-residential building and other
institution classified under Section 8.12.034 in a User
Class shali not be less than the amount set forth under
Level A of the User Class.
B. Usage level may be reviewed by the Director of Sanitation
upon request of the business or commercial user, but no
more than once a calendar year.
Section 8.12.048 Refuse Fee Included With Water Billing
The annual refuse fee shall be payable in twelve (12) equal
monthly installments. The monthly installment shall not be
pro-rated and shall not be less than 1/12th of the annual fee.
The refuse fee shall be included within the water bill each
month~ and the City Water Department is directed not to accept
payment of the water bill unless such payment is in the total
amount billed which shall include the appropriate refuse fee
as herein provided. Owners or occupants of premises which do
not use water shall be billed monthly by separate billings for
the appropriate refuse fee for their premises.
Section 8.12.050 Failure to Pay Bill The charges fixed
in this ordinance for the collection, removal, and disposal of
all garbage or trash shall be entered in their respective amounts
as charges against each owner, manager, occupant~ tenant, or
lessee in the amount so fixed and charged shall be collected
monthly in connection with and as a part of the water bill of
the City. Should any owner, manager, occupant, tenant, or
lessee of any place or abode of any business or commercial esta-
blishment fail or refuse to pay the charges fixed against him
and his place of abode or place of business when due, the City
shall have the right to disconnect water services to his place
of abode or place of business against which such garbage or
trash collection fees and water charges have been fixed and
assessed. The refuse fee remaining unpaid shall constitute
a lien against the real property wherein the premises or busi-
ness or commersial establishment exists and be placed on the
annual property tax statement.
Section 8.12.052 Removal of Bulky Items The regular
collection services shall not remove such items such as tires,
crates, refrigerators, stoves, air-conditioners, sofas, chairs,
pipe, auto parts, mufflers, tree limbs, trees and shrubbery
cuttings (unless these cuttings can be placed in covered re-
ceptacles as provided by the City) and other like items. The
owner or occupant of any building, house, structure or land
shall have these prohibited items removed and deposited in
the City disposal area or other approved disposal area at his
own expense within three days.
Section 8.12.054 Certain Matter Not To Be Placed In
Receptacles. Dead animals, feces, materials impregnated
with urine, poisons, explosives, dangerous or corrosive chemi-
cals, clothing taken from persons with infectious diseases,
heavy metals or metal parts, lumber, dirt, rocks, bricks,
concrete blocks, tires, crates and other refuse from construc-
tion or remodeling, shall not be placed in receptacles used
for regular collection service or the City container collection
service.
Section 8.12.054 A Unauthorized Use of Receptacles;
Duty of Owner or Occupant To Remove Refuse From Adjacent Right-
Of-Way It shall be unlawful for any person to place, or permit
another to place, any garbage or trash in any receptacle, at
any refuse collection point or in any refuse container used in
the City container collection service unless the refuse is from
the premises served by the container or from the premises at
which the receptacle or collection point is located.
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City service containers at several points in city areas
are provided for refuse from apartment house areas, busLnesses,
and institutions within the city limits, and refuse from out-
side the city limits shall not be placed in the City service
containers.
It shall be unlawful for any person to place or deposit,
or permit another to place or deposit, prohibited refuse in
city service containers or to put anything on the ground at
these locations.
The owner or occupant of any building, house, structure
or land shall oause to be removed all refuse items of the
nature which are prohibited to the regular collection service,
and which are located, owned or deposited on the property or
on the public right-of-way shall be prima fa¢ie evidence that
such owner or occupant failed to remove, as provided by this
ordinance, at his own expense, the refuse or other item or
items so stored or located thereon. Removal within three days
of notice by the City is required.
Section 8.12.054 B Charges For Unusual Locations~ Types
and Accumulations Refuse collection and disposal service may
be provided within the capabilities of the department to instal-
lations with unusual locations, types or accumulations of refuse
at a charge established by the Director of Sanitation based on
actual cost.
Section 8.12.054 C Simultaneous Service By More Than One
System The sanitation department shall provide regular col-
lection or container collection system services according to
the type and volume of refuse to be removed, economies of
operations and capability within the department. Normally,
refuse container and regular collection service will be pro-
vided to the same installation only at the discretion of the
Director of Sanitation.
Section 8.12.054 D Parking Interfering With Containers
It shall be unlawful for any person to park a vehicle of any
nature within 20 feet of any container used in the City con-
tainer collection service in such a manner which would inter-
fere with the removal of refuse from such container, or block
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the approach to such container. Proof of ownership of any
vehicle violating this section shall be prima fa¢ie proof
that such owner parked such vehicle.
Section 8.12.054 E Damaging Containers Provided For
Refuse Collections It shall be unlawful for any person to
damage, either willfully or through negligence, any property
of the City used in the City container service.
Section 8.12.054 F Doors and Lids To Be Kept Closed
Except when refuse is being loaded into containers, the doors
and lids shall be kept closed except at certain locations
approved by the Director of Sanitation.
Section 8.12.056 City To Provide Sufficient Containers
The City shall provide sufficient containers for all businesses
and residences. It shall be unlawful for any person other than
a duly authorized employee of the City to collect or remove
any garbage or trash from garbage and trash receptacles used
in the regular City collection service or from any container
utilized in the City container collection service.
Section 8.12.058 Demolition Fees Demoiition fees shall
be as follows: $3 per cubic yard with a $5 minimum.
Passed by the Laurel City Council and approved
this 20 day of May, 1980, to become effective June 20,
Larry D.' Herman, Mayor
ST:
Donald L. H'ac~mann, City Clerk
Approved as to form: f -
Thomas ~. Br~l'e~, City Att~ney
by the Mayor
1980
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