Section 12.01. ESTABLISHMENT. The City has established, and is hereby authorized to further establish and continue waste management facilities and ancillary programs including, without limitation, collection, testing, processing and disposal of mixed municipal solid waste, source separated waste, recyclable materials, and all other soil amendments for the operation of resource recovery facilities, biosolids drying facilities, compost facilities, waste reduction facilities, and similar operations; the mixing, bagging, blending and incorporating of ingredients reasonably related to the reuse and resale of recovered waste, or reasonably related to improving the economic efficiency of waste management facilities and programs and reducing the cost thereof to the City, the State of Minnesota, and other generators of waste within Minnesota.
Section 12.03. STATUS OF OPERATIONS. The waste management facilities and programs shall be operated by the City as an enterprise fund in which costs, including capital costs, are recovered through user fees, gate fees, and sale of ancillary products and services. Any surplus in the enterprise fund shall be periodically deposited in the City general fund.