(A) Purpose and policy. In order to protect the health, safety, welfare and environment and to conserve energy and natural resources within the city; to provide for the opportunity to recycle; and to otherwise provide for solid waste management, it is declared to be the public policy of the city to regulate solid waste management to:
(1) Carry out policies in O.R.S. 459.015 and to provide for the opportunity to recycle taking advantage of a coordinated area-wide recycling collection service and promotion, education and marketing program;
(2) Ensure safety accumulations, storage, collection, transportation and disposal of or resource recovery of solid wastes;
(3) Ensure maintenance of economical solid waste collection service;
(4) Ensure rates that are just, fair, reasonable and adequate to provide necessary service to the public; and
(5) Prohibit rate preferences and other discrimination practices which benefit one of a few users at the expense to other users of the service or the public.
(B) Scope. No persons shall accumulate, store, collect, transport or dispose of, or resource-recover solid wastes or provide service, except in compliance with this subchapter with O.R.S. Chapter 459 or 459A dealing with solid wastes, and with regulations of the Environmental Quality Commission promulgated thereunder. Unless as otherwise provided, no person shall provide or offer to provide solid waste collection service for profit within the city franchise area.
(Prior Code, § 50.02) (Ord. 1155, passed 6-1-1998) Penalty, see § 50.99