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ADOPTING ORDINANCE
CHARTER OF THE CITY OF CULVER CITY CALIFORNIA
TITLE 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS
TITLE 3: ADMINISTRATION
TITLE 5: PUBLIC WORKS
TITLE 7: TRAFFIC CODE
TITLE 9: GENERAL REGULATIONS
TITLE 11: BUSINESS REGULATIONS
TITLE 13: GENERAL OFFENSES
TITLE 15: LAND USAGE
TITLE 17: ZONING CODE
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TITLE 17: ZONING CODE
TITLE 5: PUBLIC WORKS
      Chapter
         5.01.   SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT
         5.02.   SEWERS
         5.03.   WATER CONSERVATION AND WATER SHORTAGE PROGRAM
         5.04.   PUBLIC UTILITIES
         5.05.   STORMWATER AND URBAN RUNOFF POLLUTION CONTROL
         5.06.   SAFE AND CLEAN WATER PROTECTION MEASURE
         5.07.   WASTE REDUCTION REGULATIONS
         5.08.   MANDATORY ORGANIC WASTE DISPOSAL REDUCTION REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 5.01: SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT
Section
   5.01.005   Definitions
   5.01.010   Municipal service exclusive
   5.01.015   Handlers of recyclable materials
   5.01.020   Temporary permits during emergencies
   5.01.025   Ownership and handling of solid waste and recyclable material
   5.01.030   Unauthorized storage of solid waste prohibited
   5.01.035   Scattering of solid waste prohibited
   5.01.040   Containers
   5.01.045   Wrapping requirements
   5.01.050   Time and manner of placement
   5.01.055   Special collections
   5.01.060   City Agent's authority to make regulations
   5.01.065   Refusal to handle; tagging for violations
   5.01.070   Charges for solid waste collection
   5.01.075   Time of payment of charges
   5.01.080   Delinquent account
   5.01.085   Payment under protest
   5.01.090   Disposal to be outside City
   5.01.095   Permit for non-City service vehicles; containers
   5.01.100   New construction requirements
   5.01.105   Violations
§ 5.01.005 DEFINITIONS.
   Whenever in this Chapter the following terms are used, they shall have the meaning ascribed to them, unless it is apparent from the context thereof that some other meaning is intended.
   CITY AGENT.    Any employee or agent of the City designated by the City Manager or City Council, or any person under contract with the City, or agent or employee of such person, with authority for directing the collection and disposal of garbage, rubbish and other refuse.
   CONTAINER. Any vessel, tank, receptacle, box or bin used or intended to be used for the purpose of holding solid wastes, recyclable materials, and recyclable waste materials.
   CORPORATIONS. Corporations, copartner-ships, and all business enterprises, associations or organizations, however designed.
   HANDLER. A person or corporation who collects, transports, or otherwise disposes of solid wastes, recyclable materials, or recyclable waste materials.
   HAZARDOUS WASTE. A waste, or combination of wastes, which because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics may:
      1.   Cause or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible, or incapacitating reversible illness; or
      2.   Pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or environment when improperly treated, stored, transported, or disposed of, or otherwise managed.
   NON-COMBUSTIBLE SOLID WASTE. Ashes, bottles, broken crockery, glass, tin cans and metallic substances which will not incinerate through contact with flames of ordinary temperature.
   PROCESSING. Reduction, separation, recovery, conversion or recycling of solid waste.
   RECYCLABLE MATERIAL. Materials that are segregated from other waste material for the purpose of recycling. This includes, but is not limited to, paper, glass, metals, wood, plastics, wastes, bulky goods, waste oil, and construction and demolition materials that are sold by the owner thereof to a third party.
   RECYCLABLE MATERIAL HANDLING. The collection, transportation, storage, transfer, or processing of recyclable materials.
   RECYCLABLE WASTE MATERIAL. Discarded materials such as, but not limited to, newspapers, glass and metal cans, which are separated from other solid waste for the purpose of recycling and which are not sold to a third party.
   RECYCLABLE WASTE MATERIAL HANDLING. The collection, transportation, storage, transfer, or processing of recyclable waste materials.
   RECYCLING. The process of collecting, sorting, cleaning, treating and reconstituting materials that would otherwise be disposed of by landfilling or transformation, and returning materials to the economic mainstream in the form of raw material for new, reused or reconstituted products.
   SOLID WASTE. All putrescible and non-putrescible solid, semisolid, and liquid wastes, including garbage, trash, refuse, paper, rubbish, ashes, industrial wastes, demolition and construction wastes, abandoned vehicles and parts thereof, discarded home and industrial appliances, dewatered, treated, or chemically fixed sewage sludge which is not hazardous waste, manure, vegetable or animal solid and semi-solid wastes, and other discarded solid or semisolid wastes, but not including hazardous waste as defined herein, radioactive waste regulated pursuant to the State Radiation Control Law, and untreated medical waste regulated pursuant to the State Medical Waste Management Act. Materials which are discarded and thereafter recycled are considered solid wastes for purposes of this Chapter. Materials which are sold by the owner thereof to a third party and thereafter recycled are not considered solid wastes for purposes of this Chapter.
   SOLID WASTE HANDLING. The collection, transportation, storage, transfer, disposal, or processing of solid wastes.
   TRANSFER STATION. The site where collected refuse may be transferred to vehicles which will haul the refuse to a disposal site.
(Ord. No. 2001-012 § 1 (part); Ord. No. 2002-016 § 1 (part); Ord. No. 2006-009 § 22 (part))
§ 5.01.010 MUNICIPAL SERVICE EXCLUSIVE.
   A.   Solid waste handling and recyclable waste material handling shall be performed exclusively by the City or its authorized agents. The City Council may regulate, by ordinance or resolution, all aspects of solid waste handling and recyclable waste material handling, including, but not limited to, frequency of collection, means of collection and transportation, level of services, charges, fees, and nature, location, and extent of providing solid waste handling services.
   B.   Any person performing solid waste handling and/or recyclable waste material handling on the effective date of this Section, pursuant to a permit issued by the City, may continue to operate pursuant to the conditions of the permit until its expiration date.
(Ord. No. 2001-012 § 1; Ord. No. 2002-016 § 1 (part))
§ 5.01.015 HANDLERS OF RECYCLABLE MATERIALS.
   A.   Handlers of recyclable materials within the City shall, in addition to obtaining a business tax certificate, obtain a Recyclable Material Collection and Disposal Permit from the City Agent prior to commencing such handling and annually thereafter.
   B.   Persons operating under such permit shall, on a monthly basis or at such times as determined by the City Agent, submit a report to the City Agent specifying the amount of recyclable materials collected within the City, the location(s) from which the recyclable materials were collected, and the location(s) to which the recyclable materials were brought.
      1.   Such report shall be kept confidential unless otherwise provided by law.
      2.   Failure to submit timely reports shall be a basis for revocation of the Recyclable Material Collection and Disposal Permit.
   C.   The City Agent shall have the right to audit the records of handlers who have received a permit pursuant to this Section.
(Ord. No. 2001-012 § 1 (part); Ord. No. 2002-016 § 1 (part))
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