(A) Short title. This section shall be known and cited as the “Town of Calera Disposal of Trash or Refuse Ordinance.”
(B) Purpose. The purpose of this section is to control and regulate the disposal of trash or refuse within the town and to provide rules and guidelines to facilitate the enforcement thereof.
(C) Definitions. For the purpose of this section, the following definitions apply unless the context clearly requires a different meaning.
REFUSE. Any type of accumulation of worn out, used up, broken, rejected or worthless materials.
TRASH. Any debris, rubble, stone, fragments of building materials, mattresses, furniture, appliances or any other materials which are unwanted.
(D) Regulations.
(1) The owner or occupant of a residential unit shall not permit the accumulation of trash and refuse upon any premises under his or her control for a period of more than ten days.
(2) Any trash or refuse not accepted for collection shall be removed from the roadside within 24 hours of the regularly-scheduled collection day.
(3) The town, upon initial contact by the owner or occupant of a residential unit, will schedule an extra haul-off of any trash or refuse not accepted for collection on a regularly-scheduled collection day at the base rate of $50, plus the cost of landfill fees.
(4) The owner or occupant of a residential unit shall clean up and remove from the roadside and premises any trash or refuse resulting from the breakage or opening of any garbage bag or other container used for trash and refuse collection disposal within 24 hours after the same has been scattered.
(Prior Code, § 17-402) (Ord. 2016-04, passed 3-8-2016) Penalty, see § 54.99