(a) Each property owner or occupant of a residential unit, except those exempted under Section 955.04 shall pay to the City a fee of one hundred ninety-two dollars ($192.00) per year. The owner of record on the first day of the month shall receive the statement for that month.
Except, all of those property owners of residential units who are sixty-five years of age or older and who reside in a residential unit where the total annual gross income of all the adult occupants therein is eight thousand seven-hundred forty dollars ($8,740.00) or less shall be eligible for a twenty-four dollar ($24.00) discount per year off the above stated established rate.
Persons seeking a yearly discount off the established solid waste removal rate as provided herein shall make yearly application on forms provided by the City in the office of the Director of Finance. Upon approval of the application by the Director of Finance, the applicant shall be entitled to such yearly discount unless subsequent to making application, the applicant fails to meet the qualifications specified herein, at which time such discount shall be terminated until the qualifications are again met by the applicant.
The Director of Finance in conjunction with the Director of the Department of Public Works may make further rules and regulations consistent with this article to implement its provisions.
(b) The rates and charges specified by subsection (a) hereof shall be billed to the owners of each and every residential unit provided, that upon application by the owner or occupant of any residential unit, filed with the Director of Finance and accompanied by an appropriate affidavit showing the occupant's status as such, such bills may be rendered to the occupant. The City may require the applicant or customer, when said applicant or customer initially signs up or requests solid waste disposal service, to make a deposit to secure the payment of such service rates and charges. Such deposit shall not be more than one-sixth (1/6) of the annual charge for the service.
(Ord. 0-1147. Passed 8-24-04; Ord. 0-1335. Passed 4-28-09.)
(c) The City shall have the right to deny solid waste collection service to any person whose solid waste requirements are sufficiently abnormal or different in the opinion of the County Health Officer or Director as to justify special handling, in which case a special charge shall be made. This shall include, but not limited to, those buildings or dwellings not readily accessible to the collector, or removal or disposal of the following types of solid waste: major construction and demolition waste, offal, sewage, animal excreta and animal carcasses. Tree or shrub trimmings shall be tied in bundles small enough to permit ready handling. Material resulting from the repair, alteration or erection of buildings or other structures shall be stored in such a manner to facilitate ready handling by the collector in such a manner that it does not create a safety, fire or health hazard or become scattered so as to be litter. All offal, sewage, animal excreta, cat and animal litter, animal carcasses and the like shall be put in a sealed plastic bag and placed in a metal or durable plastic trash or garbage container with a tight fitting cover. (Ord. 0-1347. Passed 6-9- 09.)
(d) A discount of one and one-half percent (1 1/4 0/0) shall be allowed and given for payment made in full of said annual fee when said fee for the full twelve (12) months period is paid in full for the year on or before the initial due date of said annual fee and which date is in July of each year. (Ord. 0-1598. Passed 7-24-18.)