(A) Collection fee. For the use of and the garbage, refuse and recyclable sanitary collection and disposal service to be rendered, rates and charges shall be collected from the owners of each and every lot, parcel of real estate or dwelling unit that is, or will be, provided such service.
(1) An owner is identified as the holder of fee simple title interest in and to a lot or a parcel of real property upon which dwelling or dwelling units are situated.
(2) The owner of each such lot or parcel of real estate upon which is situated a dwelling or dwelling unit shall pay a fee of $20 per month for each dwelling or dwelling unit to which sanitary garbage, refuse, and recyclable collection and disposal service is provided. Owners are liable for payment as required herein. The individual garbage collection fee shall be billed with the wastewater utility billing of the town on a monthly basis. This billing shall be issued by the town on or about the first day of each month. All rates and charges billed by the Wastewater Utility Billing Department, including for garbage collection fees imposed hereby, shall be paid by no later than the 20th day of each month. In the event such billing is not paid on or before the 20th day of each month, then a 10% penalty shall be imposed. For the purposes of computing time, and particularly for assessment of the 10% penalty, the 20th day of each month is the last day in which payment of billing without imposition of the 10% penalty may be made. After the 20th day of each month, the 10% penalty on each such billing shall be assessed and collected. In the event that the 20th day of the month is a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday as defined in this code, or a day in which the business office of the Cedar Lake Sewer Utility is closed, the next day shall be the last day in which payment of the monthly billing may be made, and the day after such time is the time when imposition of the 10% penalty shall be imposed. In the further event of necessity of pursuit of delinquent or late fees in a civil action, reasonable attorney’s fee may be imposed and required pursuant to the provisions of IC 36-9-30-21, as amended from time to time.
(B) Compliance. Each owner of a lot, parcel of real property or building having a dwelling or dwelling unit shall be required to comply with the regulations and requirements for the sanitary garbage, refuse, recyclables collection and disposal service contracted for and provided by the town.
(C) Frequency of collection. Sanitary garbage refuse and disposal service will be on a weekly basis. Recycling collection and disposal will be a bi-weekly or alternating week basis.
(D) Containers. Waste or trash containers are to be supplied by each dwelling or dwelling unit. Each owner may, at his or her option, rent a waste or trash toter from the garbage collection service provider upon request, and upon separate payment by said owner to the contracting party. The costs shall not exceed $3 per month for a 96-gallon waste or trash toter or $2.25 per month for a 65-gallon waste or trash toter. Standard recyclable waste containers shall be provided by the contracting party, and shall be 18 gallons.
(E) Large items. Each owner shall be permitted or dispose of one large item per week per dwelling or dwelling unit, including furniture, couches, mattresses, televisions, carpeting, lumber, bundled construction debris (bundled in 4 foot long and 12 inch diameter bundles of no more than 1 cubic yard), or the like.
(F) Collection procedures. All garbage or refuse to be collected shall be placed in containers made of plastic or metal, equipped with suitable handles and tight fitting covers, and plastic garbage bags or similar receptacles. These containers shall be watertight and of a type approved by the town. The same shall be kept clean neat and sanitary at all times. Such containers shall be of a type suitable for securing and holding garbage or rubbish and shall be convenient for collection and that such weight is to be handled readily, when filled by one average person.
(1) All garbage or refuse containers shall be placed for collection at ground level on the owner’s property on or adjacent to the curb and within the right-of-way to a public street or ally to be accessible not more than six feet from the side of the public street or ally from which collection is to be made.
(2) All recyclable containers shall be placed for collection on ground level on the owner’s property, on or adjacent to the curbing and within the right-of-way to a public street or alley upon which collection is to be made.
(G) Fee payment exceptions. The following exceptions only, and no other, may apply to the requirement for payment by the owners of lots, parcels of real property, or buildings upon which are located dwellings or dwelling units served by the sanitary garbage, refuse and recyclable collection service provided by the town, namely: Owners in private or Planned Unit Development (P.U.D.) Developments, where all similar type services are provided for all the owners of dwellings and/or parcels of real property by the private owner or entity comprised of all the private owners.
(Ord. 823, passed 5-9-02; Am. Ord. 954, passed 6-6-06; Am. Ord. 1008, passed 6-19-07; Am. Ord. 1047, passed 2-3-09; Am. Ord. 1057, passed 7-21-09; Am. Ord. 1386, passed 6-15-21)
Cross-reference:
Garbage/Solid Waste Disposal Fund, see § 32.67