(A) Removal by municipal employees prohibited without containers. No municipal employee shall collect or remove, at city expense, any refuse from the premises of any person or tenant thereof, unless such premises are equipped with standard containers referred to in this subchapter or as specifically authorized by the Supervisor of City Services or other authorized person, and unless such refuse is kept stored in such containers.
(B) Storage of garbage in containers. No person shall deposit or store garbage in refuse containers unless such garbage has been prepared for collection, removal and disposal, and complies with the definition of prepared garbage as set out in § 50.01. Lids shall be kept on garbage containers at all times.
(C) Accessibility of refuse containers. All persons using the essential services provided for in this subchapter within the city shall make all refuse containers available and accessible to collectors at the curb line adjacent to the public street or public sidewalk nearest the person’s property not sooner than 12 hours prior to 6:00 a.m. on the scheduled day of collection for the particular area in which such users reside. It shall be the duty of all users of such essential services to ascertain the collection schedules for the area in which they reside and if any such user of such essential services shall fail to make his or her refuse containers available as herein required, the collectors shall refuse to make such collection and such refusal shall not constitute a failure of collection; provided, however, that where, by reason of the number of users of such service located in one building, or where no facilities are or can be made available for the placing of garbage containers on the ground floor or where for any other reason it appears impossible or impracticable for such user of such service to comply with the provisions of the section, then in any of such events any such user may apply to the Supervisor of City Services for permit and permission to be exempt from the provisions of this section and upon investigation, by the said Supervisor it appearing proper to do so, the Supervisor may issue a certificate of exemption from the provisions of this section. Any user of such service who shall be aggrieved by a decision of the Supervisor with regard thereto may appeal such decision in writing to Council within 30 days from and after the date of the decision of such Supervisor. Council shall fix a time for the hearing of such appeal and after due notice to all parties in interest shall hear such appeal at a public hearing at the regular meeting of Council and the decision of Council thereon shall be final.
(D) Administrative rules and regulations. City Council and the Supervisor of City Services shall each have a right to issue, promulgate and establish such rules and regulations as shall be deemed necessary or proper for the effective administration of this subchapter and not inconsistent herewith.
(E) Right of Council to describe methods of disposal. Council reserves the right by proper order or resolution to provide for the disposal of garbage and refuse by the use of incinerators, landfill garbage method or such other disposal methods as shall in its discretion appear practical or necessary.
(Ord. 32, passed 7-10-2018) Penalty, see § 50.99