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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1970-0714 - Ordinance - 12/11/1970ORDINANCE NO. 714 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; PROVIDING 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: 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 mean 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 discarded 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 in a readily accessible location. Ordinance No. 714 SECTION 3: Page 2 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 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 $2.25 Small appliance shops, cleaning establishments, filling stations, photographic shops, etc. each $6.75 Drug stores, retail groceries, hardware, restaurants, clothing stores, book stores, etc., each $11.25 Delayed Payment: 10% of bill to be added after the due date. SECTION S: This rate shall be effective on all invoices submitted by the City of College Station to users on or about February 1, 1971. Ordinance No. 714 SECTION 9: Page 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 10: 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 llth day of December, A.D., 1970. APPROVED: Mayor ATTEST: City Secretary las