(a) Residential Units. Every tenant, lessee, owner, or occupant of a dwelling unit, as head of household, shall pay an annual fee of two hundred fourteen dollars and eighty cents ($214.80) for refuse collection by the City, payable in monthly installments of seventeen dollars and ninety cents ($17.90) beginning January 1, 2010.
Every tenant, lessee, owner, or occupant of a dwelling unit, as head of household, shall pay an annual fee of $274.80 for refuse collection by the City, payable in monthly installments of $22.90 beginning August 1, 2016.
(Ord. 64, 2016. Passed 9-19-16.)
(b) Commercial and Industrial Units. Commercial and industrial units shall have one twenty gallon container hauled without charge, per collection. The charge for hauling other containers shall be one dollar ($1.00) per container, per collection, with a minimum charge of six dollars ($6.00).
(c) Payment of Fees.
(1) Fees are due and payable on the first day of each calendar quarter following the calendar quarter in which service is rendered.
(2) Fees shall be paid quarterly.
(3) For the purpose of this chapter, quarterly periods are designated as commencing January 1, April 1, July 1, and October 1.
(d) Manner of Collection and Place of Payment.
(1) The owner of any occupied building, structure or separately occupied portion thereof, shall be primarily responsible for payment of the collection fee herein, unless he or she notifies the Director of Public Service-Safety of the name and address of any tenant, lessee or occupant thereof who can be billed directly by the City for such collection service.
(2) Any building, structure or separate portion thereof, whether occupied or unoccupied, which contains more than three dwelling units, shall be billed at the commercial rate.
(3) All other manners of billing, collection and place of payment shall be established by and within the discretion of the Director who shall be solely responsible for the administration of this section.
(e) Delinquent Accounts. All accounts shall be considered delinquent if not paid by the thirtieth day of the month following the end of that calendar quarter for which service is rendered. All delinquent accounts are subject to stoppage of service without notice. If a delinquent account is not paid within thirty days, the Director may cease all refuse collection for that account unless otherwise directed by the Mayor. If terminated, service shall be resumed thereafter only upon payment of the accumulated fees for the period of collection and the period of noncollection plus ten percent (10%) unless the Mayor specifically directs otherwise.
(f) Legal Remedy. The stoppage of services hereinbefore authorized for nonpayment of collection charges shall be in addition to the right of the City of proceed for the collection of such unpaid charges in a manner provided by law for the collection of a municipal claim.
(g) Disposition of Money Collected. All moneys collected and received under this chapter shall be credited to the operation of the Sanitation Department and shall be so earmarked in total and the City Auditor shall credit such moneys received to the Garbage Fund to carry out the purposes of this chapter.
(Ord. 26, 1980.)