(A) The city’s contracted residential collection service shall be the only commercial collection service for garbage and trash entitled to operate within and use the streets of the city.
(B) Each householder shall be required to subscribe, and shall be conclusively presumed to have subscribed, to the city’s collection service and pay the applicable charge therefor.
(C) Every commercial operator or occupant of any premises within the city, originating or accumulating garbage or trash thereon, shall be conclusively presumed to have subscribed to the city’s contracted collection service, even though the commercial operator may haul and dispose of his own garbage and trash to the city dump or elsewhere. In any even, without excusing any person from any criminal penalty under this chapter, if any trash, garbage, or other refuse of any kind is allowed to accumulate anywhere within the city for such a period of time as to constitute a nuisance, even though not a subscriber to the city’s contracted collection service under the terms of this article, shall each be conclusively presumed to have authorized the city to remove such trash, garbage, or other refuse and shall each be responsible to the city for the payment of the city’s reasonable charges for collecting and hauling the refuse, which shall be not less than the monthly charge shown on the then currently effective schedule of charges for performing similar service.
(1976 Code, § 8-40) (Am. Ord. 2019-14, passed 9-10-19)