(A) Any owner, occupant, tenant or party in possession of any building, structure, premises, facility or property within the village which generates refuse shall be required to have accumulations of the refuse removed from the location where generated no less frequently than once each week. The village shall arrange for the removal and disposal of refuse from single family residential dwelling units within the village as set forth more fully in division (B) below. The owners, occupants, tenants or parties in possession of any buildings, structures, premises, facilities or properties other than single family residential dwelling units as specified in division (B) shall be responsible at their own cost and expense to arrange for the removal and disposal of accumulations of refuse generated therefrom, in conformance with this chapter and other applicable provisions of this code.
(B) Single family residential refuse collection and fees.
(1) The village shall, by means of an appropriate contract or agreement entered into with a person or entity lawfully authorized to provide refuse collection and disposal services in the state, provide refuse collection and disposal to each single family residential dwelling unit to which individually metered water service and sanitary sewer service is provided by the village. The owners, occupants, tenants or other parties in possession of such a single family residential dwelling unit shall be required to receive and utilize such refuse collection and disposal services as the village may arrange for from time to time by means of such contracts or agreements, and shall further be jointly and severally liable for and required to pay the monthly or other periodic fee which is established from time to time by such contracts or agreements. The village may also impose, collect and retain a monthly refuse collection administrative fee separate from and in addition to the fees payable pursuant to such contracts or agreements. The fees payable pursuant to such contracts or agreements and the monthly refuse collection administrative fee contemplated herein may be duly modified by the village from time to time, which fees shall be included with and made a part of the monthly bill for water and sanitary sewer service provided to each such single family residential dwelling unit. In the event that any owner, occupant, tenant or other party in possession of a single family residential unit which is required to receive refuse collection and disposal service and to pay the fees as set forth above or fails or refuses to pay such fees in connection with the other charges set forth on the monthly water, sanitary sewer and garbage bill, the refusal or failure to pay the refuse collection fee and the village monthly refuse collection administrative fee shall be deemed a failure to pay the complete amount of the charges set forth on the monthly water, sanitary sewer and garbage bill, which shall be subject to the remedies, penalties and procedures prescribed by Chapters 50 and 51 for failures or refusals to pay water and sanitary sewer service charges, in addition to such remedies, penalties and procedures as may be provided in this chapter. Effective as of May 1, 2014, the amount of the village monthly refuse collection administrative fee shall be $2 per month for each single family residential dwelling unit to which individually metered water service and sanitary sewer service is provided by the village.
(2) Notwithstanding anything in this chapter to the contrary, the village shall have no obligation whatsoever, whether in connection with the single family residential collection program established by division (B)(1) above or otherwise, to collect, remove or dispose of any matter, material, substance or thing of any nature or kind which is included within the definition, as set forth in ILCS Ch. 415, Act 5, §§ 1 et seq., as amended, of any of the following terms:
(a) Hazardous waste;
(b) Hazardous substance;
(c) Industrial process waste;
(d) Pollution control waste;
(e) Special waste; or
(f) Potentially infectious medical waste.
(3) The method of collection, removal and disposal of refuse generated by or from single family residential dwelling units outlined within this division (B) shall be the sole and exclusive method for collection, removal and disposal of such refuse.
(4) Pursuant and subject to the village's refuse collection and disposal contract with Waste Management - Southwest, as it has been modified by Resolution 150-01, the unit rate structure for the contract years December 1, 2002 through November 30, 2006 shall be as set forth below:
Contract Year | Unit Rate | Senior Rate |
12/01/02-11/30/03 | $13.68 | $12.68 |
12/01/03-11/30/04 | $14.22 | $13.22 |
12/01/04-11/30/05 | $14.80 | $13.80 |
12/01/05-11/30/06 | $15.38 | $14.38 |
(C) All refuse shall be collected from alleys whenever possible. Wherever a person desiring to dispose of refuse owns or inhabits property abutting a passable alley, the refuse shall be deposited at the alley for collection. When no alley abuts the premises where the refuse is to be collected, collections shall be made from the curb immediately in front of the premises.
(D) Brush, shrubs, and limbs of trees, not to exceed one cubic yard, shall be collected, provided that the latter shall be bound in lengths not to exceed five feet and that no single piece within the bundle shall exceed three inches in diameter. Brush, shrubs, and limbs of trees shall be placed for collection on regular collection days.
(E) This shall not be construed to obligate the village, to collect materials created by the demolition, remodeling, or constructing any buildings or structures.
(F) In addition, business and commercial collections shall be as often as may be necessary in the opinion of the Trustees. An annual collection in the spring of discarded furniture and appliances or trees, branches, roots, stumps, brush, and shrubs not exceeding the three cubic yards, shall be made with no additional charge.
('71 Code, Ch. 7 § 3-6) (Ord. 245, passed 11-9-66; Am. Ord. 334, passed 5-3-72; Am. Res. 455-86, passed 6-4-86; Am. Ord. 2749-00, passed 4-5-00; Am. Res. 150-01, passed 9-19-01; Am. Ord. 14-1112, passed 4-2-14)