(A) The director shall implement and enforce the provisions of this chapter for the promotion of the public health and safety; to regulate and control the storage, collection, disposal, and salvaging of solid waste within the city; to provide a public disposal site or sites for solid waste originating within the City of Tucson; and to remediate environmental problems resulting from solid waste. The director shall direct the establishment, maintenance and operation of such disposal site or sites. The director is further authorized to provide and/or approve of recyclable material collection sites, so that approved recyclable materials may be safely and expeditiously handled, and to direct the development, construction, maintenance, and operation of such sites. The director shall have the responsibility for environmental assessments of city acquisitions and dispositions of interest in real property.
(B) The director is hereby authorized and directed to make and impose administrative and operational rules, procedures and regulations necessary to the efficient implementation and enforcement of the provisions of this chapter including, but not limited to:
(1) The collection, recycling, disposal, storage, salvaging, hauling and accumulation of solid waste by the city, residents, contractors, or any other person engaged in those activities or processes;
(2) The operation of a transfer station(s), disposal site(s), recycling site(s), transfer site(s), temporary collection site(s), waste collection program(s), recycling or waste reduction program(s) or similar activities or other similar facilities as approved by the mayor and council;
(3) The formulation of administrative policies and procedures regarding the collection of fees and applicable charges;
(4) Such rules, procedures and regulations shall be binding upon and obeyed by all persons affected by this chapter after three (3) copies of any such rules, procedures and regulations shall have been filed in the office of the city clerk as a public record and there kept for use or inspection by any member of the public at any time during the regular office hours of that office. A printed copy of such rules, procedures and regulations shall be furnished any member of the public upon request.
(C) It is a civil infraction to violate standards established in the rules, procedures and regulations.
(Ord. No. 10539, § 2, 6-3-08, eff. 7-1-08)