It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, association, or corporation to accumulate, collect, transport, or dispose of any solid waste, generated within the City limits, unless that person has obtained a valid City business license and a nonexclusive, commercial solid waste license, pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter. Any person, firm, association, or corporation allowed by City code and provisions of this Chapter, to provide commercial or industrial solid waste management services, shall have first obtained a commercial solid waste license to conduct such a business and shall conduct the business in a lawful manner. Exemptions to this requirement may be allowed by the City Manager, or his duly authorized representative, if any of the following exemptions apply:
(A) Governmental agencies engaged in the collection, transportation, disposal, or recycling of residential, commercial, or industrial refuse within the City shall be exempt from the provisions of this Chapter. If, however, a private refuse collector that has a contract with a governmental entity, also collects private commercial or industrial refuse or recycles residential, commercial, or industrial refuse within the City limits, such private commercial collector is required to make application for a license to operate within the City limits and to comply with all other provisions of this Chapter.
(B) This Section shall not be construed to prevent individual property owners from occasionally hauling their own refuse from their own premises to a County Solid Waste Disposal Facility. However, they will still be subject to monthly or bi-monthly solid waste collection and disposal fees.
(C) All persons who primarily collect and dispose of or recycle scrap metal, scrap plastic, waste motor oil, human excreta, animal excreta or remains, yard wastes, medical wastes, infectious wastes, hazardous wastes, toxic wastes, residual construction debris, or any other similar category of solid waste, that either requires a special state, county, or federal permit to handle or constitutes a limited category of waste that the private hauler specializes in collecting, shall be exempt from the license provisions of this Chapter.
(D) A United States Military Installation that has a separate contract with a private collector for solid waste management services.
(76 Code, § 8-6-10) (Ord. 531, passed 1-22-81; Am. Ord. 885, passed 8-22-91; Am. Ord. 893, passed 11-26-91; Am. Ord. 902, passed 7-23-92; Am. Ord. 2010-012, passed 6-24-10) Penalty, see § 10.99