(a) Each business, commercial establishment, or industry, that generates more than three (3) thirty-five-gallon containers of solid waste per week, shall be required to use a metal container (dumpster).
(b) The city will provide an eight-cubic-yard container (dumpster) for each business requesting solid waste pick-up services by the city. The city shall own and maintain the container (dumpster). The city council shall set a monthly rental charge for use of each container. In addition, a monthly service fee, based on per container pickup, will be charged each business. The service fee shall be at such rates as may be established from time to time by the city council. Each business must enter a contract with the city or provide for removal of its own solid waste.
(1) All accounts shall be paid by the due date printed on the bill.
(2) Customers who fail to pay the amount charged for solid waste services by 5:00 p.m. local time, the fifteenth day of the month in which the statement is received shall be charged a late penalty in the amount stated in the current ordinance establishing commercial garbage/recycling collection rates. Customers who fail to pay the amount charged for solid waste services by 5:00 p.m. local time the twenty-fifth day of the month in which the statement is received shall be charged an additional late penalty in the amount stated in the current ordinance establishing commercial garbage/recycling collection rates and solid waste service to the premises shall be terminated.
(3) Delinquent accounts where solid waste service has been terminated shall not have such services restored until such delinquent account, including all penalties, has been paid in full.
(c) It shall be unlawful to pile garbage or trash on or around a container. The lid to each container must remain closed at all times except when trash or garbage is being placed in the container, the container is being cleaned or repaired, or when the container is being emptied. If the establishment is producing more garbage or trash than can be adequately handled by the container the public works director or his designee can require added pickups.
(d) The public works director or his designee shall determine the location or placement of each container.
(Ord. of 6-25-87, 3.1--3.4; Ord. of 4-19-88, 1; Ord. of 6-20-00, 1; Ord. No. O-11-06-21-3, 2, 6-21-11)