All licensed garbage haulers shall file, as a part of their application for a license, and within 30 days after any change in such haulers’ rates, a general statement of their use rate structures and billing systems consistent with the city’s comprehensive plan of solid waste reduction and recycling program which shall include the following elements:
(a) A pay as you throw (PAYT) rate to reward people who reduce their level of solid waste collection service based either upon volume or weight. Haulers must provide at least two levels of service based on volume or weight. For each volume increase of at least one and four-tenths times over a lower level of service the rate of each higher level of service must be at least one and one-fourth times the corresponding lower level of service;
(b) A rate to provide customers with adequate options and incentives to reduce their weekly level of solid waste collection service and the amount of solid waste collected as a result of their participation in waste reduction and recycling programs; and
(c) A rate that includes the combined cost of solid waste, using the above elements, and recycling collection services.
(1992 Code, § 18-59) (Ord. 43-93, passed 5-17-1993; Ord. 149-95, passed 11-20-1995; Ord. 63-06 passed 5-15-2006; Ord. 76-11, passed 10-3-2011; Ord. 117-18, passed 12-11-2018)