(A) Residential service. Collection shall be once each week, as scheduled by the franchisee, except for disruptions caused by inclement weather, legal holidays, or unavoidable circumstances. All receptacles containing garbage or trash which are to be picked up shall be placed at curbside prior to 12:30 a.m. on the date collection is to be made.
(B) Commercial establishment service. Collection shall be made on a regular schedule for residential collection in the area where the establishment is located. Collection shall be limited to one 95-gallon trash container.
(C) Bulk containers. Service shall not be provided by the town for bulk containers.
(D) Industrial waste. Industrial waste shall be collected, removed, and disposed of by the operator of the factory, plant, or enterprise creating or causing the same.
(E) Non-acceptable refuse. Non-acceptable refuse shall not be collected by town forces.
(F) Dead animals. Neither large nor small dead animals shall be picked up or collected by town forces.
(G) Building materials; lot clearing; landscaping. Building materials and wastes from lot clearing, landscaping, and building shall be collected, removed, and disposed of by the contractor or builder or, in the event of his or her failure, by the owner of the within premises.
(H) Responsibility of owner. In all instances where a service shall not be provided by the town, the material (whether it is building or structural materials, garbage, industrial waste, trash, non-acceptable refuse, or dead animals) shall be collected, removed, and disposed of by the party creating or owning such matter and, upon his or her failure to do so, by the owner of the property upon which such matter is located. In the event that both the party creating or owning such matter or the owner of the property upon which such matter is located does not collect, remove, and dispose of said matter, after having been given one week’s written notice by the Public Works Department, the town shall have an independent contractor remove the same and dispose of it at the property owner’s expense.
(Prior Code, § 20-22) (Ord. 9-85, passed 5-21-1985; Ord. 4-96, passed 10-3-1996; Ord. 19-10, passed 7-8-2010)