HomeMy WebLinkAbout1946-0092 - Ordinance - 10/10/1946ORDINANCE NO. 92
GARBAGE AND TRASH ORDINANCE
AN ORDINANCE DEFINING THE VARIOUS KINDS OF GARBAGE, REGULATING THE KINDS AND
SIZE OF RECEPTACLES IN WHICH TO PLACE SANTE, THE MANNER OF ITS PREPARATION
AND WHERE IT MUST BE PLACED TO BE COLLECTED; PROVIDING REGULATIONS FOR
COLLECTING SAME AND PROHIBITING THE PLACING OF GARBAGE OR ANY ARTICLE OR
MATERIAL IN STREETS AND ALLEYS; PROVIDING FOR SERVICE CHARGES; PROHIBITING
THE MEDDLING, SCATTERING CONTENTS, PILFERING OR JUNKING, WITH GARBAGE CANS;
AND PRESCRIBING A PENALTY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS:
Section 1. 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 m can business houses, boarding houses, offices, theaters, hotels,
restaurants, cafes, eating houses, tourist camps, 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 term "trash" as used in this ordinance is meant paper of all
kinds, tin cans, bottles, paper containers, small boxes, and such other smaller
items as are usually discorded by households or businesses; it does not include
refuse from building construction, large trees and limbs therefrom, heavy
accumulations of brick, stone, lumber, ashes, dirt, or other heavy bulky
materials.
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 inside the property
line at the edge of the alley; and where there is no alley same shall be
placed to be readily accessible to the city garbage vehicles.
Section 3. The City Garbage Department will not make collection of garbage
or trash where same is not prepared for collection and placed as designated
by the terms of this Ordinance.
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Section 4. 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.
Section 5. 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 6. In the business district and from hotels, restaurants, cafes,
boarding houses, sanitariums and tourist camps, 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 7. 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:
Single family residence or apartment $1.00
Small appliance shops, cleaning establishments, filling stations,
photographic shops, etc., each $3.00
Drug stores, retail grocerys, hardware, restaurants, clothing stores,
book stores, etc., each $5.00
The above charges shall be paid each month and within 15.days from date of
monthly bill, otherwise service will be discontinued.
Section 8. 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.
Section 9. This ordinance shall be cumulative of all other sanitary ordinances
or regulations of the City of College Station unless in conflict with the terms
of said ordinances and regulations, in which case the terms of this
ordinance shall prevail.
Passed and approved this the 10th day of October, A. D. 1946.
Attest:
City Secretary
Approved: