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No person except authorized city officers and employees shall collect, remove, convey, or cause or permit to be removed, collected, or conveyed, any solid waste on or along any public right-of-way in the city. This section shall not apply to any person with whom the city has entered into a contract for the collection, removal, and disposal of solid waste, or to any person or business who holds a city business license for the collection, removal, and disposal of solid waste, or to any employee of such persons, while such contract or license is in force.
(Ord. No. 3007)
No person other than the owner or occupant, or a person to whom the owner or occupant has given consent, or an officer or employee of the city, or a person or an employee thereof holding a contract with the city or a business license issued by the city for the collection, removal, and disposal of solid waste, shall interfere in any manner with any solid waste container or the contents thereof, or place materials within or remove the contents from any solid waste container.
(Ord. No. 3007)
(A) Persons applying for a permit from the city for new construction and building additions and alterations shall comply with the requirements of this section and all required components of the California Green Building Standards Code, 24 CCR, Part 11, known as CALGreen, as amended, if its project is covered by the scope of CALGreen or more stringent requirements of the city. If the requirements of CALGreen are more stringent than the requirements of this section, the CALGreen requirements shall apply.
(B) Project applicants shall refer to the city’s building and/or planning code for complete CALGreen requirements.
(C) For projects covered by CALGreen or more stringent requirements of the city, the applicants must, as a condition of the city’s permit approval, comply with the following:
(1) Any new occupants of a commercial business, multi-tenant commercial property, and/or multi-family dwelling of five units or more, where existing buildings on the site are identified for the storage and collection of recyclable and/or organic materials, consistent with the city’s three or two-container collection program, shall comply with a provision requiring adequate space for recycling and organics materials management pursuant to Sections 4.408.1, 4.410.2, 5.408.1, and 5.410.1 of the California Green Building Standards Code, 24 CCR, Part 11 as amended provided amended requirements are more stringent than the CALGreen requirements for adequate recycling space effective January 1, 2020.
(2) New construction and/or alterations resulting in more than 30% of the floor space shall add, modify or expand existing trash enclosures for existing commercial, transient residential (hotel/motel/spa), and for existing multi-family residential projects to ensure that the enclosure(s) is appropriately sized and adequately maintained so that access doors function and the structure does not fall into disrepair. Failure to comply may result in enforcement action.
(3) All commercial businesses and multi-family dwellings of five units or more shall:
(a) Comply with CALGreen requirements and applicable laws related to management of C&D, including the documentation of the diversion of recyclable and organic waste in C&D from disposal.
(b) Comply with the city’s C&D written and published policies and/or administrative guidelines regarding the collection, recycling, diversion, tracking, and/or reporting of C&D materials.
(Ord. No. 3007)
When the city annexes an area in which, for at least the immediately preceding three years, private solid waste collection service of at least the quality and frequency of service provided by the city has been provided by an operator holding a county franchise, license or permit, the operator may continue to provide such service to the existing service area for the period provided by Cal. Pub. Res. Code, Section 49520 after the city mails notice to the operator that after such a period the city will provide exclusive service to the area. The city and the operator may provide mutually satisfactory terms for the operator’s termination of service before such period expires.
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All occupants are liable for charges for solid waste collection services. In the case of premises containing more than one dwelling unit or place of business or both that are served by a single water meter, such charges may be billed to the landlord or water meter user, who shall collect such charges from the occupants thereof and transmit the amount so collected to the city. In the event the landlord or water meter user fails to collect such charges from any such occupant and remit the charges to the city, the landlord or water meter user shall be liable to the city for the payment of such charges.
(Ord. No. 3007)
Whenever possible, charges for the collection of solid waste and recyclable materials and related services shall be added to city utility bills. Such charges shall be for the period covered by the utility bills, and shall be payable at the same time and in the same manner as utility bills. Bills for a fractional part of a billing period may be prorated in a manner approved by the city manager. Whenever it is not possible to determine the total amount of such charges to be added to the utility bill, or if such charges must be billed separately, bills for such services may be rendered and payment of such charges may be made quarterly or monthly, in advance, as directed by the city manager.
(Ord. No. 3007)
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