There is imposed on each owner, tenant or occupant of residential or commercial property in the city to whom municipal refuse and garbage collection is made available by the city, a service charge for the collection and removal of refuse and garbage according to the following schedule.
SERVICE CHARGE SCHEDULE
(A) For one regular pick-up per week:
(1) For a one-family dwelling:
(a) Effective September 2, 2010: $15.63 per month; and
(b) Effective September 2, 2010: A fuel surcharge shall be applied and charge to each household in the next billing cycle when the price of diesel exceeds $3.00 per gallon according to the last order price of diesel fuel charged to contractor preceding the billing to the city as per the “City of New Albany Fuel Surcharge Schedule in Resolution R-10-21.”
(2) For a church:
(a) Effective September 2, 2010: $15.63 per month; and
(b) Effective September 2, 2010: A fuel surcharge shall be applied and charge to each household in the next billing cycle when the price of diesel exceeds $3.00 per gallon according to the last order price of diesel fuel charged to contractor preceding the billing to the city as per the “City of New Albany Fuel Surcharge Schedule in Resolution R-10-21.”
(3) For a multi-family or apartment dwelling (monthly fee shall apply for each individual unit, not as a whole structure/dwelling):
(a) Effective September 2, 2010: $15.63 per month; and
(b) Effective September 2, 2010: A fuel surcharge shall be applied and charge to each household in the next billing cycle when the price of diesel exceeds $3.00 per gallon according to the last order price of diesel fuel charged to contractor preceding the billing to the city as per the “City of New Albany Fuel Surcharge Schedule in Resolution R-10-21.”
(4) For a mobile home or trailer court:
(a) Effective September 2, 2010: $15.63 per month; and
(b) Effective September 2, 2010: A fuel surcharge shall be applied and charge to each household in the next billing cycle when the price of diesel exceeds $3.00 per gallon according to the last order price of diesel fuel charged to contractor preceding the billing to the city as per the “City of New Albany Fuel Surcharge Schedule in Resolution R-10-21.”
(5) (a) For a business or commercial establishment with five 20-gallon garbage cans or less per week, $18.50 per month. Business or commercial establishment with six 20-gallon garbage cans or more, or a one cubic yard dumpster per week, $26 per month. Each extra cubic yard per week or part thereof shall be $16 additional per month. If there are eight or more garbage cans (20-gallon) then a dumpster must be used instead of the cans.
(b) Effective January 1, 2010 and every January 1 thereafter: The user fee shall be adjusted (upward or downward) according to the Consumer Price Index for all Urban Consumers (CPI-U): U.S. city average, under the following expenditure and commodity service group: water and sewer and trash collection services.
(6) Any commercial establishment or apartment complex may elect to have garbage removed by a private contractor, and if such an election is made, then no service charge by the city will apply.
(7) Where an owner or operator of a business or commercial establishment resides on the premises, then in that case only the business or commercial establishment fee as set out in division (A)(5) above shall apply.
(B) For pick up of extraordinary items: A $5 service charge for each pick up of large items, including but not limited to, refrigerators, stoves, washers and dryers, air conditioners, dishwashers, large chairs and sofas.
(C) Service charges as specified in division (A) above will be combined, billed and collected with the sewage works charges. The administration of this section shall be under the control of the Sewer Board.
(D) Revenue from service charge collections will be deposited in a separate sanitation fund within the sewage utility and payments of cost incident to the service of collection and disposition of refuse and garbage will be made from this fund.
(Ord. G-81-910, passed 10-22-1981; Ord. G-83-1015, passed 12-19-1983; Ord. G-84-5, passed 2-6-1984; Ord. G-85-75, passed 7-22-1985; Ord. G-90-208, passed 2-5-1990; Ord. G-93-141, passed 1-21-1993; Ord. G-98-243, passed 5-4-1998; Ord. A-01-47, passed 12-20-2001; Ord. G-09-36, passed 9-17-2009; Ord. G-10-26, passed 9-2-2010)