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The Director may initiate proceedings to make delinquent refuse collection service fees a special assessment against the parcels of property situated within the City to which said service was rendered and fees paid by City.
(Added by Ord. 47-83, App. 2/4/83)
Any charges that remain unpaid by a residential property owner or a commercial property owner pursuant to an order of the Director under Section 291.2 for a period of 60 or more days after the date upon which they were billed are delinquent and may be collected in the manner set forth in this Article. A report of delinquent charges shall be transmitted to the Director. Upon receipt by the Director of the report, he or she shall fix a time, date and place for hearing the report and any protests or objections thereto.
(Added by Ord. 47-83, App. 2/4/83; amended by Ord. 100-09, File No. 081404, App. 6/23/2009)
The Director shall cause notice of the hearing to be mailed to the Owner of the real property to which the service was rendered not less than 10 days prior to the date of hearing. At the time fixed for the report, the Director shall hear it with any objections of the Owner liable to be assessed for delinquent accounts. The Director may make such revisions, corrections or modifications of the report as it may deem just and in the event that the Director is satisfied with correctness of the report (as submitted or as revised, corrected or modified), the Director shall confirm the report. The decision of the Director on the report and on all protests or objections thereto shall be final and conclusive.
(Added by Ord. 47-83, App. 2/4/83; amended by Ord. 100-09, File No. 081404, App. 6/23/2009)
Upon confirmation of the report by the Director, the delinquent charges contained therein shall constitute a special assessment against the property to which the services were rendered. Thereafter, said assessment may be collected at the same time and in the same manner as ordinary municipal taxes are collected and shall be subject to the same penalties and same procedure of sale as provided for delinquent, ordinary municipal taxes.
The assessments shall be subordinate to all existing special assessment liens previously imposed upon the property and paramount to all other liens except those for state, county and municipal taxes with which it shall be upon parity. The lien shall continue until the assessment and all interest and penalties due and payable thereon are paid. All laws applicable to the levy, collection and enforcement of municipal taxes shall be applicable to said special assessments.
(Added by Ord. 47-83, App. 2/4/83; amended by Ord. 187-10, File No. 100707, App. 7/23/2010)
There is hereby created in the general fund a continuing appropriation account entitled "Payment of Property Owners' Delinquencies for Refuse Collection Service." This account shall be credited with such sums as may be appropriated by the Board of Supervisors, delinquencies collected by the Director of Public Health, assessments collected by the Tax Collector, and sums received in consideration of release of liens. Expenditures from said sums shall be made to Collectors for Owner delinquent accounts.
(Added by Ord. 47-83, App. 2/4/83; amended by Ord. 187-10, File No. 100707, App. 7/23/2010)
Any notice required to be given hereunder by the City, the Director or any Collector to an Owner shall be sufficiently given or served upon the Owner for all purposes hereunder if personally served upon the Owner or if deposited, postage prepaid, in a post office letter box addressed to the "Owner" at the official address of the Owner maintained by the Tax Collector of the City for the mailing of tax bills or, if no such address is available, to the Owner at the address of the dwelling or commercial property.
(Added by Ord. 47-83, App. 2/4/83; amended by Ord. 100-09, File No. 081404, App. 6/23/2009)
If the Director of Public Health causes a Dwelling or a Commercial Property to be inspected to determine whether the Owner has complied with Section 291.1, the Owner of the Dwelling or Commercial Property shall pay an inspection fee equal to $167 per hour of Department of Public Health staff time spent during the inspection.
(Added by Ord. 100-09, File No. 081404, App. 6/23/2009)
(Former Sec. 291.16 added by Ord. 47-83, App. 2/4/83; repealed by Ord. 100-09, File No. 081404, App. 6/23/2009)
If any part or provisions of Sections 291 through 291.16 or application thereof, to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the Section, including the application of such part or provision to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby and shall continue in full force and effect. To this end the provisions of the Sections are severable.
(Added by Ord. 47-83, App. 2/4/83; amended by Ord. 100-09, File No. 081404, App. 6/23/2009)
All vehicles used by refuse collectors licensed by the Director of Public Health pursuant to that certain Ordinance No. 17.083, approved by the electors at the general election held on November 8, 1932, as amended, for the purpose of collecting, disposing of, or transporting through the streets of the City and County of San Francisco, any "refuse," as defined by Section 1 of said ordinance, shall be lined with zinc, sheet iron, or other metallic substance and shall be constructed so as to prevent any liquid refuse substance from escaping from such vehicles. The total outside width of such vehicles, or the loads thereon, may exceed the width limitation prescribed by Section 35100 of the Vehicle Code of the State of California; provided, however, that in no event shall the width of such vehicles exceed 107 inches, nor shall the width of any load thereon exceed 115 inches. Such vehicles shall also be provided with canvas covers, which shall be kept in a reasonably clean condition, and which shall at all times when said vehicles are passing along or standing upon any street or alley of this City (except when the owner or person having such vehicle in charge is in the act of securing a load of refuse to be emptied into said vehicle) be kept on such vehicles in such manner that the covers shall extend well down the sides and ends of the vehicles, and be securely fastened at the corners, sides and ends of the vehicles; provided, however, that when the vehicles are empty of refuse and are reasonably clean and free from noisome odors, the covers need not be kept on the vehicles in the manner above prescribed.
Vehicles used for the transportation of swill shall be so constructed that the same shall be watertight, and that no leakage can escape from such vehicles, and such vehicles shall be provided with a hinged metal or wood cover which can be tightly closed. All vehicles for the transportation of swill or garbage of any character shall be subject to the approval of the Director of Public Health before licenses for their operation are issued.
(Amended by Ord. 257-61, App. 9/14/61)
[Recyclable Materials – Unauthorized Removal Prohibited.]
(a) "Recyclable materials" shall mean materials segregated from refuse by the producer or user of such materials and placed for collection for subsequent reuse or use as raw materials for new products. Recyclable materials shall consist only of the materials designated by the Chief Administrative Officer for collection pursuant to the City's curbside recycling program.
(b) "Placed for collection" shall mean the deposit of recyclable materials by the producer or user of such materials on public street or sidewalk areas for collection and removal for recycling purposes.
(c) "Person" shall mean any living human being, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company, organization, or government entity.
(Added by Ord. 106-90, App. 3/23/90)
It shall be unlawful for any person other than the Collector, an authorized City employee for enforcement purposes, or the generator of recyclable materials to take, remove, move or otherwise appropriate recyclable materials that have been placed in a container designated by a Collector for recyclables or to take, remove, move, or otherwise appropriate the container that is placed for collection. The City and its duly authorized collectors shall have the exclusive right to collect recyclable materials placed for collection in public sidewalk and street areas.
(Added by Ord. 106-90, App. 3/23/90; amended by Ord. 100-09, File No. 081404, App. 6/23/2009)
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