CHAPTER 47: LITTER AND SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL
Section
Article I. General Provisions
   47-00   Title; authority for regulation; reservations generally
   47-1   Definitions
   47-2   Mandatory service
   47-3   Points of collection for solid waste
   47-4   Recycling
   47-5   Frequency of collection
   47-6   Collection rates; billing procedures for residential units
   47-7   Collection rates; billing procedures for commercial and/or institutional customers
   47-8   Roll-off container customer rates and billing procedures
   47-9   Change in cost of doing business; unusual costs or charges
   47-10   Hours of operation; collector's personnel; collector's equipment
   47-11   Hazardous wastes
   47-12   General provisions of any franchise agreement with a collector
   47-13   Breach of franchise
   47-14   Complaints
   47-15   Customer's duties
   47-16   Cost increases
   47-17   Containers for multi-family units
   47-18   Property maintenance for commercial, business, and industrial establishments
   47-19   Public littering
   47-20   Handbill and newspaper distribution
   47-21   Construction and demolition sites
   47-22   Florida Litter Law
   47-23   Grant of a franchise; franchise required; general franchise provisions; term of franchise
   47-24   Franchise fees on commercial/residential service
   47-25 – 47-99   Reserved
ARTICLE I. GENERAL PROVISIONS
§ 47-00. TITLE; AUTHORITY FOR REGULATION; RESERVATIONS GENERALLY.
   (a)   Title. This chapter may be cited as the "Melbourne Beach Solid Waste Disposal Code."
   (b)   Authority for regulation. This chapter is enacted under the home rule powers of the town to promote the public health, safety, welfare, aesthetics, and economic order of the community, by providing regulations for recycling, collecting, removing, or disposing of solid waste material, construction and demolition debris, or recyclable materials, all from businesses, residences or construction sites, or littering within the town.
   (c)   Reservations generally. In addition to the specific reservations of the town set forth herein, the Town Commission hereby reserves unto the town the matters set forth in this section. In accepting a franchise, the franchisee acknowledges that its rights thereunder are subject to the police powers of the town to adopt and enforce ordinances, resolutions, policies, and practices necessary to the convenience, health, safety, welfare, and economic order of the public, and it agrees to comply with all applicable ordinances, resolutions, rules, regulations, policies, and practices by the town pursuant to such power. Any inconsistency between, or ambiguity created by the relationship between, the provisions of this chapter and any other contemporaneous or future lawful exercise of the town's police powers shall be resolved in favor of the latter.
(Ord. 98-01, passed 2-18-98)
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