(a) The city will, in selected locations as determined by the sanitation department and approved by the public works director, place containers of varying capacity for the collection of garbage and trash. Each person, firm or corporation shall be notified by the sanitation department of the container location assigned to that person, firm or corporation. The use of other containers is not permitted. The sanitation department shall place the appropriate sized containers throughout the city in such a manner to adequately serve all residential and commercial accounts. If the volume of garbage from any one commercial account is sufficient to justify a separate container for that establishment, the sanitation department shall so place a container at that location. Notwithstanding conflicting provisions herein and subject to the approval of the public works director or his designee, commercial account holders may place garbage containers at designated locations.
(b) The city shall provide individual roll-out trash containers to residential account holders where it is impractical to service the collection of solid waste through the utilization of 1½ yards or larger containers. The account holder shall be responsible for the safe keeping of the container. The containers must be rolled out on the morning of the scheduled pick up and returned to a place of safe keeping after it has been serviced by the sanitation department. If an individual roll out container is lost or destroyed, the account holder will be required to pay the full cost of a replacement container.
(c) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to block access to solid waste containers in a manner that hinders the collection of solid waste. In the event a solid waste container is located in a street within ten feet of the driveway of the residence to which it is assigned, there is a rebuttable presumption that the container was placed by the authority of the public works director or his designee.
(Prior Code, § 11-6; Ord. of 4-24-1984; Ord. of 9-14-1993; Ord. of 7-23-2013; Ord. of 9-11-2014; Ord. No. 043-2022, § 2, 10-25-2022)