(A) Residential. All fees for solid waste collection, disposal, recycling, processing, and marketing including materials to be placed in a landfill or composted, whether such services are provided by the city or its commercial hauler, shall be set by the City Manager with City Council approval and the fee schedule shall be posted in the City Clerk’s office.
(B) Commercial (includes properties with five or more dwelling units). The fee schedules for optional payment and service for the city collection of refuse from a business located in a residential collection district shall be set based upon a calculation which takes into account such factors as the differences in volume, weight, and nature of the material collected from the business as compared to the average refuse material collected from a residential dwelling unit. Such fees shall be fixed by the City Manager with City Council approval and posted in the City Clerk’s office.
(C) Lien against premises served. The charges for rubbish services which are not already levied as a millage on the premises served are hereby recognized to constitute a lien pursuant to the Revenue Bond Act, Public Act 94 of 1993, being M.C.L. § 141.121, as amended. Whenever such charge is delinquent for six months, the city official in charge of the collection shall certify to the tax assessing officer of the city the fact of such delinquency, whereupon such charge shall be entered upon the next tax roll as a charge against such premises and shall be collected and the lien enforced in the same manner as general city taxes against such premises are collected and the lien enforced against such premises. All provisions of the Charter of the city and of the laws of the state applicable to the time and manner of certification and collection of delinquent city taxes levied against real estate in the city shall be applicable to and shall be observed in the certification and collection of charges for rubbish services.
(D) Billing procedure and delinquent accounts. Solid waste disposal bills shall be mailed annually and become due and payable 90 days following the billing date. A 10% penalty shall become payable on past due accounts. The halting of the city’s collection service at a premises for nonpayment of refuse service charges shall be a right in addition to the right of the city to proceed for the collection of the unpaid charge in any manner provided by law for the collection of a municipal claim.
(Prior Code, § 50.09) (Ord. D-1658, passed 7-13-1992, effective 7-23-1992; Ord. O-11, passed 8-11-2003, effective 8-21-2003; Ord. O-92, passed 11-23-2009, effective 12-3-2009; Ord. O-138, passed 6-25-2012, effective 7-5-2012; Ord. O-166, passed 8-24-2015, effective 9-3-2015)