(a) Solid Waste Management Plan. The Director of Public Service is authorized to contract with a designated Solid Waste Planning Authority to prepare a Solid Waste Management Plan, for purposes of facilitating the development of environmentally-sound practices of solid waste disposal and/or Resource Recovery/Source Separation Programs. Such plan may show all present management activities and recommended future management activities, taking into consideration population growth, solid waste generation, economic development and overall system management including financing and regulatory capabilities. The plan may consider and include the following:
(1) The varying geologic, hydrologic, climatic and other circumstances under which different solid waste practices are required in order to insure the reasonable protection of air, water and land quality.
(2) Characteristics and conditions of collection, storage, processing and disposal operating methods, techniques and practices; location of facilities where such are conducted; and the nature of the material to be disposed.
(3) The economic, organizational, financial and management problems affecting solid waste disposal, resource recovery and resource conservation, including but not limited to waste supply, transportation costs, industry profiles, existing resource recovery facilities, resource conservation systems and existing and new markets for recovered materials.
(b) Management System. The Director of Public Service shall provide for a solid waste collection and disposal system consistent with the solid waste management plan, consisting of storage, collection, transport, recovery and disposal, through public ownership or through exclusive agreements with one or more persons for a part or all of such solid waste system.
(c) Rules and Regulations. The Director of Public Service may adopt, revise, revoke
and enforce rules and regulations governing the administration of this chapter.
(d) Exclusive Service. All single-family residential units and all multi-family residential units, with or without a garbage disposal unit and/or garbage burning incinerator, shall use the collection service of the City. Only duly authorized employees of the City shall be permitted to collect, transport and dispose of residential solid waste within the corporate limits of the City. Private collection of any residential solid waste shall be prohibited unless it is impossible or impracticable to do so as determined at the sole discretion of the Director of Public Service.
(e) Commercial Service. No restrictions, except as provided in Section 975.11 shall be made against the private collection of wastes. Commercial structures may voluntarily request the City to provide collection service.
(f) Collection Service Outside City Limits. The Director of Public Service may authorize the Sanitation Department to collect solid waste from residential and commercial units and structures which are outside the corporate boundaries.
(g) Application for Financial Assistance. The Director of Public Service is authorized to negotiate and enter into agreements with any other local, State or Federal unit of government, for the purpose of overall system management, including financing and regulatory aspects of the collection, storage, processing, transport, transfer, treatment, source separation, disposal recycling and resource recovery of any solid waste generated within the corporate boundaries of the City; and such agreement(s) shall be filed with Council.
(h) Service to Municipal Buildings. The Director of Public Service shall furnish solid waste sanitation services free of charge to municipal buildings and for other municipal purposes as determined by the Director of Public Service.
(Ord. 132-2020. Passed 7-13-20.)