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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.
(Title and Section Amended by Ord. No. 181,519, Eff. 2/12/11, Oper. 1/1/11.)
(a) Permit Required.
(1) Persons who collect, remove or transport Solid Waste, including Construction and Demolition Waste, Source-Separated Materials or Co-Mingled Recyclables, generated within the City, must obtain, in addition to all other required permits, an AB 939 Compliance Permit from the Bureau of Sanitation.
(2) Persons who arrange for the removal or transportation of Construction and Demolition Waste generated within the City, and who do not contract or otherwise arrange with a Permittee to remove or transport such Waste, must obtain an AB 939 Compliance Permit from the Bureau of Sanitation.
(3) Exceptions to Permit Requirement. Subdivision (1) of this Subsection does not apply to Self-Haulers who in the course of performing their primary business function incidentally collect, remove or transport Solid Waste (excluding Construction and Demolition Waste), Source-Separated Materials or Co-Mingled Recyclables, generated within the City, and the total amount of all such Wastes, Materials and Recyclables collected, removed or transported is less than one thousand (1,000) tons per year.
(4) Exceptions to Permit Requirement. Subdivision (1) of this Subsection does not apply to residence owners who generate Construction and Demolition Waste during the course of personally performing construction and demolition projects at their own residences and transport such Waste in their own vehicles.
(b) Construction and Demolition Waste Transportation Requirements.
(1) Every Person required to obtain an AB 939 Compliance Permit who collects, removes or transports Construction and Demolition Waste within the City must transport the Waste for disposition as follows:
(i) delivery of the Construction and Demolition Waste to a Certified Construction and Demolition Waste Processing Facility; or
(ii) delivery of the Construction and Demolition Waste to a facility other than a Certified Construction and Demolition Waste Processing Facility if at least two Certified Construction and Demolition Waste Processing Facilities refuse to accept the Waste and provide the Person with a rejection slip. Rejection slips must be maintained for a minimum of three years from the date the Person received the rejection slips.
(2) Subdivision (1) of this Subsection shall not apply to the collection, removal, or transportation of Source-Separated Material generated from a project within the City and delivered to a recycling facility, or segregated for on-site recycling.
(3) Subdivision (1) of this Subsection shall not apply to residence owners who generate Construction and Demolition Waste during the course of performing construction and demolition projects at their own residences and transport such Waste in their own vehicles.
(c) Reporting and Documentation Requirements.
(1) Every Person required to obtain an AB 939 Compliance Permit shall submit reports as required by the Bureau of Sanitation, on forms provided by the Bureau, documenting all disposal and diversion amounts of materials generated within the City and other information that the Bureau may require.
(2) Documentation. Every Person required to obtain an AB 939 Compliance Permit must maintain documentation of all disposal and diversion amounts of materials generated within the City and other documents that the Bureau may require. Such documentation includes, but is not limited to, invoices, weight tickets, rejection slips (where issued), weight tickets from a destination other than a Certified Construction and Demolition Waste Processing Facility (where issued), and documents identifying construction and demolition project location, quantity of Construction and Demolition Waste, quantity of Solid Waste, quantity of Source-Separated Material and Co-Mingled Recyclables, and destination of each load of material. The documentation required to be maintained by this Subdivision must be kept for at least three years from the date of document creation.
(d) Bins. Bins owned by Solid Waste Haulers that are used to collect, remove or transport Solid Waste, Construction and Demolition Waste, Co-Mingled Recyclables or Source-Separated Material generated within the City must be clearly marked with the Solid Waste Hauler’s name and phone number.
(e) Organic Waste Self-Hauler Requirements. (Added by Ord. No. 187,711, Eff. 1/18/23.)
(1) Self-Haulers shall Source-Separate all Recyclables and Organic Waste generated on-site from Solid Waste in a manner consistent with 14 CCR Sections 18984.1 and 18984.2, or shall haul Organic Waste to a high diversion Organic Waste processing facility as specified in 14 CCR Section 18984.3.
(2) An Organic Waste Self-Hauler who collects, removes, or transports Organic Waste within the City must deliver their Source-Separated green container Organic Waste to a Solid Waste facility, operation, or property that processes or recovers Source-Separated Organic Waste. Alternatively, Organic Waste Self- Haulers may haul Organic Waste to a high diversion Organic Waste processing facility.
(3) An Organic Waste Self-Hauler that is a commercial establishment (including Multi-family Dwellings) shall keep a record of the amount of Organic Waste delivered to each Solid Waste facility, operation, or property that processes or recovers Organic Waste. Records shall be subject to Inspection in accordance with Section 66.06 of this Code and shall include the following information:
(i) Delivery receipts and weight tickets from the facility accepting the waste.
(ii) The amount of material in cubic yards or tons transported by the Organic Waste Self- Hauler to each facility.
(iii) If the material is transported to a facility that does not have scales on-site, or employs scales incapable of weighing the Organic Waste Self-Hauler’s vehicle in a manner that allows determination of the weight of materials received, the Organic Waste Self-Hauler is not required to record the weight of material but shall keep a record of the facilities that received the Organic Waste and the estimated amount of material in cubic yards or tons.
(4) Subdivision (1) of this subsection shall not apply to an owner of a residential property, such as a Single Family Dwelling or Multi-family Dwelling, generating Organic Waste derived exclusively from the performance of landscaping projects at the residential property that the owner transports in the owner’s vehicle.
(f) Transportation of Source-Separated Organic Waste. (Added by Ord. No. 187,711, Eff. 1/18/23.)
(1) Every Person required to obtain an AB 939 Compliance Permit who collects, removes, or transports Organic Waste within the City must:
(i) Transport Source-Separated Organic Waste to a facility, operation, or property that recovers Organic Waste as defined in 14 CCR, Division 7, Chapter 12, Article 2.
(ii) Identify the facility to which they will transport Organic Waste, including a facility for Source-Separated Organic Waste.
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