(A) Preparation for collection. No person operating or employed by a commercial establishment shall place or cause to be placed any trash outdoors, unless same is confined in a closed container, either of a fixed or movable nature. The construction or design of such container and method of disposal shall meet the approval of the City Manager. This section shall apply only to commercial establishments, and shall include all establishments other than one-family or two-family residences or multi-family residences containing up to four units.
(B) Approved containers required. All COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENTS, defined as persons owning, controlling, operating, policying, renting or managing on a business basis for profit, will be serviced by a container-type refuse truck; therefore, these locations will be required to store their garbage, trash or other waste in containers, size approved by the City Manager.
(C) Group housing.
(1) GROUP HOUSING DEVELOPMENT is defined as a residential area of five or more dwelling units which generally has a higher density per acre than an area of single-family, detached development; which functions under one ownership, or collective ownership, or is built to function as undefined development of ownership, or which has common maintenance or maintenance of common, shared areas.
(2) All group housing development, as defined above, will be serviced by a container type refuse truck; therefore, these locations will be required to store their garbage, trash or other waste in a container size approved by the City Manager. The location of these containers will be chosen with regard to the best interest of the public welfare safety and to where refuse trucks can service them with the least maneuvering. Securing a location for placement of the container shall be the responsibility of the owner, or management, with such locations approved by the City Manager or his or her designee.
(3) It shall be the responsibility of the owner of such group housing development to supply these containers. Containers shall be maintained in a sanitary condition.
(4) It shall be the duty of every person owning, controlling, managing, operating or policying any group housing development to replace, within ten days after receipt of condemnation notice issued by the city, acting through its duly designated officials, any containers that have deteriorated or that have jagged edge capable of causing injuries to those whose duty it is to handle the containers or that have been damaged to such an extent.
(D) Mobile home parks.
(1) The owners must request garbage collection for individual units.
(2) The roadway must have a minimum of a stone base, be considered as all-weather roadway adequate to handle the 70,000 pound trucks and must include a turnaround for the truck. Also, the owner will be responsible to keep the roadway passable for the collection truck (i.e., inclement weather, parked cars).
(3) If adequate roadway is not available, the owner must provide a collection place where residents will be required to roll the containers to the truck can pick up.
(4) Charges will be the same as all residential collections.
(2005 Code, § 70-5) (Ord. passed 3-7-1994) Penalty, see § 10.99