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(Title and Section Amended by Ord. No. 182,986, Eff. 5/28/14.)
No person, other than the owner thereof, the owner’s agents or employees, or an officer or employee of this City or any person holding a contract with this City for the collection, management and/or disposal of solid waste, shall tamper with or remove any solid waste, solid waste container or the contents thereof from any location where the same had been placed by the owner thereof or the owner’s agent, whether or not such container conforms to requirements or description set forth in the rules and regulations of the Board.
(Title and Section Amended by Ord. No. 182,986, Eff. 5/28/14.)
No employee of this City shall remove or dispose of, for said employee’s individual use or benefit, any of the contents of any container used for the collection, removal or disposal of solid waste.
(Amended by Ord. No. 182,986, Eff. 5/28/14.)
Nothing contained in this Article shall be deemed to conflict with any section of this Code regulating the collection, removal or disposal of solid waste, but any such sections of this Code and any law shall each be so construed as to give effect to every provision thereof and each shall be deemed to be independent of the other.
(Added by Ord. No. 127,508 Eff. 6/29/64.)
(a) All areas of container salvage yards used for the purpose of cleaning used containers shall be paved with concrete or other similarly impervious, easily cleaned paving material. Areas where liquid cleaning processes are employed shall be sloped to drains. Drainage facilities shall be constructed and maintained in accordance with the Indus- trial Waste Permit regulations as set forth in this chapter.
(b) Used containers in which there is food residue or other such material which may attract rodents or insects shall not be stored in any used container salvage yard for longer than twenty-four (24) hours unless such container has been thoroughly cleaned and drained so as to remove all such used containers and stored in a fully enclosed rodent and fly-proof structure or storage facility.
(c) “Used Container” shall mean used tin cans, boxes, crates, barrels, drums, cartons, bottles or any other container which contains or may contain rodent or insect attracting material.
(d) “Used Container Salvage Yard” shall mean any establishment, lot, yard, place or area where used containers are repaired, processed, cleaned, bought, sold or stored or otherwise salvaged for further use, including the sale of usable containers to a container salvage yard resulting from salvage operations conducted at refuse dumps. Provided, however, that salvage container yard shall not include any disposal business or premises where containers are permanently disposed of, such as refuse dumps, or businesses or premises where containers are converted into scrap and not salvaged for use.
(Title and Section Amended by Ord. No. 182,986, Eff. 5/28/14.)
In order to meet the diversion goals of AB 939 and the City of Los Angeles which is Zero Waste by 2025, solid waste haulers, contractors and recyclers shall register with the City to obtain a permit. As used in this Section and in Sections 66.32.1 through 66.32.5, the following terms shall have the meanings set forth below:
1. AB 939 shall mean the State of California’s Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989, as may be amended from time to time, and as set forth in California Public Resources Code Sections 40050, et seq., and implementing regulations of the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle).
2. AB 939 Compliance Permit shall mean a permit issued pursuant to the provisions of Subsection (a) of Section 66.32.1.
3. Appellant shall mean a person who files a written request for a hearing pursuant to the provisions of Subdivision (1) of Subsection (d) of Section 66.32.3 of this Article.
4. Certified Construction and Demolition Waste Processing Facility shall mean a waste processing facility, operating lawfully pursuant to all applicable permits and possessing valid and current certification from the City of Los Angeles, that accepts construction and demolition waste for the purpose of recovering reusable and recyclable materials and disposing of non-recyclable residual materials.
5. Contractor shall mean any Person who enters into a contract for any construction or demolition project that requires a permit from the Department of Building and Safety.
6. Permittee shall mean a person issued an AB 939 Compliance Permit pursuant to the provisions of Subsection (a) of Section 66.32.1.
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