(A) Title. This section shall be referred to as the Chandler Trash Collection Ordinance.
(B) Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply unless the context indicates or requires a different meaning.
PERSON. Any natural person and any entity recognized as an entity by the State of Indiana.
TOWN. All incorporated areas of Chandler, Warrick County, Indiana.
(C) Regulated and prohibited acts.
(1) All residential garbage, curbside recycling and yard waste collections will be made between the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 11:00 p.m. on the contractors' designated collection day. Refuse containers, refuse bags, garbage can liners, bulky waste, recycling containers, and/or yard waste containers (excluding leaves placed at the curb as part of the town's fall leaf collection) shall be set out at the refuse collection site, curbside or alley, on the designated collection day before 5:00 a.m. and no earlier than noon of the day preceding the regular collection day. The refuse containers, refuse bags, garbage can liners, bulky waste, recycling containers, and/or yard waste containers (excluding leaves placed at the curb as part of the town's fall leaf collection) shall be removed from the refuse collection site no later than noon on the day after the regular collection day. The owner, tenant, lessee occupant, or agent of any property shall promptly clean up and remove any scattered solid waste, rejected items, recyclable material and/or yard waste (excluding leaves placed at the curb as part of the town's fall leaf collection) from the property before noon on the day after the scheduled date of regular collection. Missed collections that are a result of the contractors' negligence will be an exception to having solid waste materials removed from the refuse collection site no later than noon the day after the regular collection day.
(2) All persons shall be responsible for their refuse containers, refuse bags, garbage can liners, bulky waste, recycling containers, and/or yard waste containers and shall have the obligation to have the same secured. No person shall allow refuse containers, refuse bags, garbage can liners, bulky waste, recycling containers, and/or yard waste containers to be located at any time beyond the refuse collection site, curbside or alley. Any refuse containers, refuse bags, garbage can liners, bulky waste, recycling containers, and/or yard waste containers found in the traveled portion of the public streets and/or public ways in the Town of Chandler shall be subject to removal and disposal by the town.
(3) No person shall place, put or deposit any trash, garbage, waste, refuse containers, refuse bags, garbage can liners, bulky waste, recycling containers, and/or yard waste containers (excluding leaves placed at the curb as part of the town's fall leaf collection), or any empty trash container or bag in any tree row, street or on that person's property or residence in such a manner that it is closer to a public street than the rear line of the person's residence or the primary structure of nonresidential property, except for the designated collection day as herein above provided.
(D) Payment of penalties to Violations Bureau.
(1) All penalties shall be payable to the Town of Chandler Clerk-Treasurer. The Town of Chandler Clerk-Treasurer is the Town of Chandler Violations Clerk and shall receive all payment of penalties under this section for which the violator desires to waive trial and admit the violation.
(2) All cases wherein persons cited for a violation do not waive trial and admit the violation or default in appearance before the Town of Chandler Clerk-Treasurer shall be referred to the Town Attorney for filing with the appropriate court in Warrick County, Indiana.
(E) Effective date. This section shall be effective upon its passage and publication as is by law required.
(Ord. 2005-7, passed 7-18-2005) Penalty, see § 50.99