(A) No person shall engage in or conduct the business of collection, removal or disposal of refuse, ashes, raw garbage or prepared garbage within the city. Private scavengers, push cart operators and private garbage collectors are hereby prohibited from engaging in the business of transporting or disposing of raw or prepared garbage or refuse containing organic wastes, putrid matter and waste or excreta subject to purification.
(B) All residents, business houses, firms or corporations residing in or doing business within the city shall be required to subscribe to, take and pay for the service provided by the Sanitation Department of the city as provided herein. No resident, person, firm or corporation shall neglect or refuse to subscribe to such service and pay for such service.
(C) Council and the City Manager, in their discretion, after considering which method would be the most feasible, efficient and economical to the city, may resolve that collection, removal and disposal of solid waste and recyclables generated within the corporate limits of the city be done by city forces or be performed by an independent contractor with such independent contractor having either exclusive rights or non-exclusive rights to collect, remove and dispose of solid waste and recyclables within the city, or that such independent contractor have exclusive or non-exclusive rights to collect, remove or dispose of solid waste and recyclables in certain areas or districts or certain classifications of occupants or owners and to recommend withholding those rights as to other classifications of occupants or owners. The final determination to use city forces or an independent contractor shall be made by Council and the City Manager through resolution.
(Prior Code, § 951.02) (Ord. passed 4-1-1958; Ord. passed 4-12-1993) Penalty, see § 10.99