(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)