5.14.010 Purpose.

   This chapter is adopted pursuant to the municipal affairs provision of the city charter. In enacting this ordinance the city council makes the following findings:

   A.   That, in 1989, the California State Legislature adopted Assembly Bill 939, known as the California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989. The purpose of that Act is to reduce, reuse and recycle solid waste generated in the State to the maximum extent feasible. To achieve that goal, the Act requires the City to implement programs for recycling, composting and source reduction which, in combination, will divert fifty percent of all solid waste generated in the city from landfills by the year 2000;

   B.   That in order to comply with the requirements of AB 939 that the city implement a composting program and that fifty percent of all solid waste generated in the city be diverted from landfills by the year 2000, it is necessary to divert yard waste debris generated in the city from landfills to the maximum extent possible; and

   C.   That the most effective method for such diversion is the implementation of a yard debris collection and composting program which will make yard debris collection services available to all residential yard debris generators and which will provide for the operation of a compost facility at which such yard debris shall be composted and at which commercial yard debris generators will be permitted to drop off yard debris for composting.

(Ord. 2107 §1, Ord. 2127 §2)

ARTICLE II. DEFINITIONS

5.14.020 General provisions.

   Unless the contrary is stated or clearly appears from the context, the definitions set forth in this article shall govern the construction of the words and phrases used in this chapter.

(Ord. 2107 §1)

5.14.030 Commercial yard debris generator.

   “Commercial yard debris generator” means a generator of yard debris which is a business having its own landscape maintenance staff, solid waste collection companies whose customers may use bins or drop boxes for large landscaping jobs, and commercial landscaping maintenance businesses located or doing business in the City.

(Ord. 2107 §1)

5.14.040 Compost facility.

   “Compost facility” means a compost and wood chipping facility at which the yard debris and leaves collected by a yard debris collection service are taken for composting and chipping and at which commercial yard debris generators may drop-off yard debris for processing into compost and wood chips.

(Ord. 2107 §1)

5.14.050 Franchise.

   “Franchise” means the exclusive rights granted pursuant to this chapter to operate a yard debris collection and compost program along the public streets and rights-of-way within the incorporated territory of the city, or such other area in the city’s sphere of influence as designated by the city council.

(Ord. 2107 §1, Ord. 2127 §3)   

5.14.055 Director.

   “Director” means the Director of the public works department.

(Ord. 2364 §95, Ord. 2439 §36)

5.14.060 Franchise fee.

   “Franchise fee” means any fee or assessment of any kind imposed by the city on a grantee for the privilege of operating a franchise granted pursuant to this chapter.

(Ord. 2107 §1)