(a) The county may:
(1) Establish and maintain such service districts and solid waste disposal or acceptance facilities as are necessary or desirable for the management of solid waste and fix charges for such services. The county may establish and administer special service charge areas, known as the solid waste collection districts and a solid waste management district. All service charges imposed on property within the solid waste collection districts and the solid waste management district may be collected as taxes on real property are collected. Upon default in the payment of any service charge, the property against which such service charge has been made may be sold at tax sale in the same manner as real property is sold for nonpayment of taxes.
(2) License or contract with a contractor to collect and dispose of solid waste under such regulations as to charges and methods as it deems advisable.
(3) Contract for the construction or operation or both of solid waste acceptance facilities, to be paid for from charges or otherwise, and to become the property of the county after such period and upon such terms as it may prescribe.
(b) Where the county or its collection contractor is providing solid waste collection service in any area of the county, no other collector shall collect recyclable solid waste which has been put out to be collected by the county or its contractor. (1981 L.M.C., ch. 37, § 1; 1992 L.M.C., ch. 39, § 1.)