The purpose of this subchapter is to protect the public health, safety and welfare of the residents of the city by licensing and regulating the operation of solid waste collection services within the city, which licensing and regulation the City Council hereby determines to be necessary to ensure the regular collection and transportation of solid waste and to eliminate the dispersal of solid waste along the streets and other areas in or near the city and to eliminate other and similar health and safety hazards which the Council finds now exist or are to be anticipated in the absence of such licensing and regulation.
(Prior Code, § 18-31)