931.01 Definitions.
931.02 Container requirements.
931.03 Placement and maintenance of containers.
931.04 Individual disposal prohibited.
931.05 Inspection of containers.
931.08 Scavenging on private premises.
931.09 Burning prohibited.
931.10 Depositing solid waste or recyclable materials in public or private receptacles.
931.11 Uncollected garbage, refuse or recyclable materials declared a nuisance.
931.12 Garbage, refuse and recycling service.
931.13 Charges.
931.14 Billing of charges; delinquency.
931.15 Unlawful transportation or collection.
931.16 Large size containers.
931.99 Penalty.
CROSS REFERENCES
Collection and disposal of garbage - see Ohio R.C. 715.43, 717.01
Disposal and transportation upon public ways - see Ohio R.C. 3767.20 et seq.
Vehicle loads dropping, sifting, leaking - see TRAF. 339.08
Littering; deposit of garbage, rubbish, junk, etc. - see GEN. OFF. 521.08
(a) "Garbage" includes all putrescible waste, except sewage and body waste, including vegetable and animal offal, and carcasses of dead animals, but excluding recognizable industrial byproducts and recyclable materials, and including all other substances from all public and private establishments and from all residences.
(b) "Refuse" includes all nonputrescible wastes as well as all construction waste and spoil material.
(c) “Commercial user” is a customer who is engaged in work intended for commerce, excluding multi-family residential management organizations. Multi-unit dwellings with more than four separate units will be treated as commercial customers.
(d) "Customer" refers to each and every owner, tenant, person, corporation or other legal entity who is billed for water service by the City through a water meter at a specific location within the city. Each location shall constitute a separate customer.
(e) "Service Director" means the duly appointed or acting Service Director or the Director's designee.
(f) "Person" means any customer, individual, household or legal entity as used herein.
(g) "Recyclable materials" means and includes clear and colored glass containers, aluminum cans, steel cans, cardboard and HDPE plastic containers, PET plastic containers, newspapers, bimetal containers and such other materials as the City and the waste contractor shall from time to time agree to be recyclable materials.
(h) “Residential user” is a customer whose location serves as a principal home for himself/herself or his/her tenants. Multi-unit dwellings with four or less separate units will be treated as residential customers.
(j) "Waste contractor" means Rumpke Waste, Inc., 10777 Hughes Road, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45247.
(k) "Yard waste" means grass clippings, leaves, brush and tree trimmings, sod and garden residue.
(Ord. 2210. Passed 1-28-92; Ord. 2679. Passed 5-2-00.)
(Ord. 2210. Passed 1-28-92; Ord. 2679. Passed 5-2-00.)
(a) No customer of any public or private premises shall permit the accumulation upon the premise of any garbage or refuse except in covered containers approved by the Service Director. Such containers shall be constructed in such manner as to be strong, not easily corrodible, rodent-proof and of a capacity of not more than 32 gallons or weighing more than 60 pounds loaded, or in a wheeled lid-attached tote (gross weight limit of 250 pounds), or in dumpster containers approved by the Service Director capable of being lifted mechanically by the waste contractor. All containers shall have tight covers, the same to be in place at all times except when garbage or refuse is being deposited or removed. In the event garbage and refuse are disposed of separately, the Service Director may require separate containers. Tree cuttings and odd articles shall be crushed and/or bundled in lengths not to exceed three feet or 50 pounds in weight. Recycling materials may be accumulated in the recycling container issued to each customer or in a larger container which is approved for garbage or refuse accumulation.
(b) (1) All residential users and customers except as provided for herein within the Mile Square "Plus" area, shall be required to utilize a wheeled, lid-attached tote (waste wheeler tote) container capable of being mechanically lifted by the collection vehicle with a gross weight limit of 250 pounds.
(2) The wheeled lid-attached tote containers shall be obtained (monthly rental or purchased) from the waste contractor. The lid of the wheeled lid-attached tote shall be tightly closed when placed curbside in the right-of-way for collection. No residential user or customer shall allow the tote to overflow. No solid waste shall be placed on top of, next to, or around the tote. Owner occupied properties are not required to utilize the wheeled lid-attached tote containers.
(c) For the purpose of Oxford Codified Ordinance Chapter 931.02, the Mile Square "Plus" area is defined as the area enclosed by, and on the exterior parameter of the intersections of East Chestnut Street and Patterson Avenue, west to West Chestnut and South Locust Streets, north to North Locust and West Sycamore Streets, east to East Sycamore Street and Tallawanda Road, south to Tallawanda Road and East High Street, east to East High Street and Patterson Avenue, and south to the intersection of Patterson Ave. and Chestnut Street. The ancillary streets of Arrowhead Drive, Acorn Circle, Lincoln Street, North Beech Street, North Poplar Street, Homestead Avenue, Bouden Lane, North Campus Avenue, University Avenue, Cedar Drive and Silvoor Lane shall be considered as included in the Mile Square "Plus" area.
(d) The required minimum number of wheeled lid-attached tote containers shall be one (1) per unit, with additional containers required based upon the maximum permitted residential occupancy. The minimum number of wheeled lid-attached tote containers required is as follows:
Maximum permitted occupancy | Waste Wheeler Tote Containers |
1 - 4 | 1 |
5 - 8 | 2 |
9 - 12 | 3 |
13 - 16 | 4 |
(e) The City Manager shall have the authority to provide and require the property owner to pay for additional waste wheeler tote containers should any property owner be found responsible or liable for two (2) or more citations during any twelve (12) month period for violating any provision of Oxford Codified Ordinance Section 931.02.
(Ord. 3444. Passed 11-21-17.)
(a) No garbage, refuse or recyclable materials shall be collected by the waste contractor unless the items are placed, maintained and accumulated as designated by the Service Director. All containers shall be stored in a location that is in compliance with subsection (c) hereof. All containers shall be placed in an alley or other convenient place for collection as determined by the Service Director not more than 24 hours before the designated collection day.All containers must be removed from collection places and returned to a location in compliance with subsection (c) hereof no later than the end of the designated collection day.
(b) All containers shall be disinfected at least monthly. If the Service Director finds evidence that this requirement has been neglected or that the container is in an unsafe condition, the Service Director shall notify the customer served at said premises and shall either collect or dispose of such container or render it safe and return it to the customer.If a container is repaired or rendered safe by the Service Director, the customer shall be chargeda fee which shall reimburse the City of Oxford for the actual cost of labor and materials used.
(c) No person, without lawful authority, shall, for more than 24 continuous hours prior to the designated weekly collection day of such containers and such collection day, cause or allow a container, as contemplated in Chapter 931 of the Codified Ordinances of Oxford, to be placed in front of or directly next to a structure’s façade. For purposes of this section, a building’s “façade” shall be defined as a front porch, front entrance, or wall of a building which is intended to be the main face of a structure that faces a street or public right-of-way. Such containers may only be temporarily placed in such location for collection in accordance with the provisions of Section 931.03(a). No containers shall be stored in a front yard, on a front porch, or directly adjacent to a front porch or walkway.
(Ord. 2988. Passed 11-20-07.)
(Ord. 2988. Passed 11-20-07.)
The disposal of any garbage or refuse in any quantity by any person in any place, private or public, within the city is prohibited unless the place of such disposal has been specifically designated by the Service Director as an area where disposal is permitted. The disposal of any recyclable material in any quantity by any person in any place, private or public, within the city is prohibited except as specifically provided for herein.
(Ord. 2210. Passed 1-28-92.)
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