HomeMy WebLinkAbout1971-0726 - Ordinance - 03/01/1971ORDINANCE NO, 726
GARBAGE AND TRASH ORDINANCE
AN ORDINANCE DEFINING THE VARIOUS KINDS OF GARBAGE, REGULATING THE
KINDS AND SIZE OF RECEPTACLES IN WHICH TO PLACE SAME, THE MANNER OF
ITS PREPARATION AND WHERE IT MUST BE PLACED TO BE COLLECTED; PRO-
VIDING REGULATIONS FOR COLLECTING SAME AND PROHIBITING THE PLACING OF
GARBAGE OR ANY ARTICLE OR THE MEDDLING, SCATTERING CONTENTS, PILFERING
OR JUNKING, WITH GARBAGE CANS; AND PRESCRIBING A PENALTY, AND REPEALING
ORDINANCE NO, 488.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION,
TEXAS:
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This ordinance shall be known as the "garbage ordinance" of the City of College
Station, The word "premises" as used in this ordinance shall be taken to mean business
houses, boarding houses, offices, theaters, hotels, restaurants, cafes, eating houses,
mobile home parks, apartments, sanitariums, rooming houses, schools, private residences,
vacant lots, and all other places within the city limits of the City of College Station, where
garbage or trash accumulates in ordinary quantities.
The various kinds of garbage shall be defined as follows:
(a) By the term "kitchen garbage" as used in this ordinance, is meant dry kitchen
refuse, all meat, vegetable and fruit refuse, small dead animals and dead fowls, from any
premises within the city limits.
(b) By the term "dry kitchen refuse" is meant the solids after the liquid or slop
has been drained off.
(c) By the terms "trash, rubbish and miscellaneous waste" as used in this ordinance
is meant boxes, crates, cloth, rags, paper, leaves, flowers, box trimmings, lawn cuttings
free from rock and earth, trees less than three feet long, tin cans, bottles, glass, chinaware
and metal less than five feet long.
SECTION 2:
It shall be the duty of every person, firm or corporation owning, managing, operating,
leasing or renting any premises, or any place where garbage or trash accumulate, to provide
a portable garbage can constructed of galvanized iron, tin, or other suitable metal, with two
handles and a tight fitting cover of a capacity not less than five gallons nor over thirty gallons
and the daily accumulation of kitchen garbage and dry kitchen refuse shall be placed in this
garbage can: It shall also be the duty of every person, firm or corporation owning, managing,
operating, leasing or renting any premises to place all trash and rubbish from said premises
in boxes, sacks or barrels or other receptacles of reasonable size, provided that the gross
weight does not exceed 100 pounds. Garbage cans and trash shall be placed in a readily
accessible location.
SECTION 3:
The collection of garbage in the city shall be a part of the duties of the city sanitary
department, the employees of which shall make periodic garbage pickups thrac city
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from the garbage containers provided by the citizens of the city as required by this article.
It shall be unlawful for any person other than the employees of the city sanitary department
to collect garbage or refuse in the city, for hire or otherwise, for any other person; provided,
however, that the private collection of brush, shrubs, leaves, and grass and tree trimmings
and cuttings for hire or otherwise shall be allowed.
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The City Garbage Department will not make collection of garbage or trash where
same is not prepared for collection and places as designated by the terms of this Ordinance.
SECTION 5:
The meddling with garbage cans, trash or rubbish receptacles or in any way pilfering,
scattering contents or junkings in any alley or street within the city limits is prohibited.
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Garbage cans shall be kept in sanitary condition and closed tightly. The contents
of all receptacles shall be so protected that the wind cannot blow out and scatter same over
the streets, alleys and premises of the city.
SECTION 7:
In the business district and from hotels, motels, restaurants, cafes, boarding
houses, and sanitariums daily collections will be made.
In the residential districts, garbage and trash shall be prepared for collection
to be made two times per week, or as often as may be necessary to comply with sanitary
regulations of the city.
SECTION 8:
There shall be charged, assessed and collected from each person, firm or corporation
within the city limits the following monthly service charges for garbage and trash disposal:
Each single dwelling unit ................ $2.25
Two-family residence (each unit)......... $2.25
Apartment house with more than
two apartments (each unit)............ $2.25
Mobile Home Park (for each unit
counted in park on 15th of each month.. $2. 25
Apartment house, with ten or more
apartments under one roof and served
by one electric meter, and using
Sanitary Container (each unit)......... $2.00
Small appliance shops, cleaning estab-
lishments, filling stations, photo-
graphic shops, etc. each ............. $6.75
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Drug Stores, retail groceries, hardware,
restaurants, clothing stores, book stores
etc., each.. a ....................... $11.25
Delayed Payment: 10% of bill to be added after the due date.
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This rate shall be effective on all invoices submitted by the City of College Station
to users on or about March 1, 1971.
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Any person, firm, or corporation violating any of the provisions of this ordinance
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction, shall be fined in any sum not
more than $25.00 and each such day violation continues shall constitute a separate offense.
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REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH.
The City of College Station Garbage & Trash Ordinance No. 488 passed by the City
Council on December 11, 1970 is hereby repealed.
PASSED AND APPROVED this 1 day of
ATTEST:
City Secretary
March, A. D., 1971.
D. A. Anderson
Mayor
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