(a) The appropriate City officials hereby establish the garbage collection fee in the amount of seventeen dollars ($17.00) per month on each household, office complex, religious and fraternal organizations, and all other business and commercial entities entitled to and which are receiving garbage collection service from the City of Chillicothe.
(b) "Household" shall be defined as "any residential unit including apartments".
(c) The garbage collection fee shall be added to the water and sewer bill of each household, office complex, religious and fraternal organizations, and all other business and commercial entities required to pay said fee pursuant to this section.
(d) Each household and business or commercial entity liable for the garbage collection fee under the terms of this section shall be responsible for payment of the garbage collection fee. However, in the case of multiple households on one meter, the person in whose name the meter billing exists shall be responsible for the payment of the garbage collection fee for each unit on that meter should the individual households on that meter billing not pay the garbage collection fee. With regards to all other entities responsible for the payment of the garbage collection fee the entity in whose name meter billing exists shall be responsible for the payment of the garbage collection fee. Should more than one business or commercial entity be on one meter, any business or commercial entity with a gross income of at least five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) per year shall be assessed the seventeen dollars ($17.00) garbage collection fee and the entity in whose name the meter billing appears shall be responsible for that fee.
(e) A percentage of seven- and one-half percent (7.5%) of the seventeen dollars ($17.00) per month garbage collection fee shall be placed in a capital fund established by the City Auditor for the replacement of refuse trucks and capital repairs or upgrades of refuse trucks as approved by Council.
(f) The Service Director, City Auditor, and Mayor's Office will provide to Council an annual recommendation on rate changes not later than March 31st of each calendar year to
keep this service to our community solvent.
(Ord. 33-24. Passed 6-10-24.)