(A) The Board of Commissioners, in order to regulate the public disposal of household rubbish, the gathering of such rubbish, and to provide funding for the collection, removal, and disposal thereof, does hereby establish, and declare, that fees shall be paid by all persons placing residential solid waste in the county’s solid waste collection system, whether such collection be by deposit in county solid waste containers or by any other type of delivery to, or collection by, any agency of the county.
(B) The term RESIDENTIAL SOLID WASTE shall be defined to include household rubbish or trash, but shall exclude bulky items including, but not limited to, refrigerators, washing machines, tables, chairs, sofas, mattresses, or other household items, brush and tree trimmings, lumber, table scraps, food, oil, oil products, dead animals and fowl, human, animal, or bird offal, fence wire, fence posts, bricks, building material, dirt, ashes, and car and truck tires or parts.
(C) The county’s solid waste collection system shall be operated solely for the benefit of, and shall be used solely by, residents of the county, and shall exclude persons or firms collecting rubbish for a fee, schools, retail, wholesale, manufacturing, or other business.
(D) Residential solid waste shall enter the county’s solid waste collection system only in those methods, from time to time established, by the Board of Commissioners. All such residential solid waste entering said system shall be placed in a trash bag or container having a capacity not in excess of 45 gallons.
(E) All bags and containers shall be closed and sufficiently tightened to prevent the leakage of contents.
(F) Each bag, or container, placed in the county’s solid waste collection system shall have affixed to said bag, or container, a tag or label issued by the county signifying that the proper fee, as then determined by the Board of Commissioners, has been paid to the county for that bag, or container.
(G) The fee to be paid to the county for each tag or label described in division (E) above shall be $1.50 for each tag or label purchased.
(H) The designated employee will provide $50 at the start of the shift and receive $50 reimbursement at the conclusion of the shift. All funds collected by the county from the sale of said tags or labels shall be deposited with the County Treasurer, and shall be credited to the County Solid Waste Collection System Fund (which Fund is hereby established) for use in the operation of said system, including the payment of expenses and fees for the disposition of residential solid waste collection within said system.
(I) No solid waste, including residential solid waste, and including those items excluded from the definition of residential solid waste set forth in division (B) above, shall be abandoned in the county except to a person, or firm, holding a permit to collect rubbish for a fee, or at a lawful landfill or, if applicable, in compliance with this section.
(Ord. 1991-4, passed 3-18-1991) Penalty, see § 51.99