A. Manner of Subscription and Payment. The owner of the property is ultimately responsible for ensuring each property/dwelling unit owned subscribes to and pays for minimum service as defined in this section. Non-payment by a tenant or lessee for services rendered can be cause for the tenant's account to be closed and sent to collections in the tenant's name, and the property address\account to then be placed in the property owner's name with the property owner receiving the account billing and held responsible for payment going forward. This condition will continue for a minimum of 3 years before the account can again be placed in a tenant or lessee's name for billing and/or payment.
B. Prior to occupancy, a property owner or tenant must establish appropriate utility service for the property, including solid waste services. Failure to do so is a violation of this chapter. City reserves the right, at the sole discretion of the Director, to establish utility service for the property in either the tenant or property owner's name and to make such service effective as of date of occupancy, as determined by the Director.
C. Failure of a tenant to establish service prior to occupancy may, at the sole discretion of the Director, result in City establishing utility service for the property in property owner's name, effective as of date of occupancy, as determined by the Director.
D. Minimum Container Service, single family residential.
1. Prior to January 1, 2019, one split container for trash and recyclable material and one undivided container for organic waste shall be the minimum refuse service for each dwelling unit or each unit of a multiple dwelling unit complex, not to exceed three units, unless authorized by the Director. The Director may authorize or require alternative automatic lift container services to be shared by two units of a multiple dwelling unit complex or mobile home park.
2. Beginning January 1, 2019, one container for trash, one container for recyclables, and one container for organic wastes shall be the minimum refuse service for each dwelling unit or each unit of a multiple dwelling unit complex, not to exceed three units, unless authorized by the Director. The Director may authorize or require alternative automatic lift container services to be shared by two units of a multiple dwelling unit complex, or mobile home park.
3. Each business permitted to operate at a residential single family property address (herein referred to as "home business") and that generates waste shall have its own waste service separate from the residential waste service. Home business waste services may be either residential container service or commercial bin service, but in no case shall be less than 1 bin or container (or split bin or container for two waste streams) per waste stream, serviced a minimum of one time per week, as determined by a waste assessment.
a. If there is little or no measurable waste generated by the home business as determined by a waste assessment and the customer requests a waiver in writing to the Director, the Director may waive the requirement for waste service for the home business and/or allow the existing residential service to be shared by the residence and the business.
E. Minimum Service - Commercial, Industrial and Multi Family (4 or more units). Minimum service for all commercial and multi-family units 4 units or more shall be determined by a waste stream assessment conducted with the customer either on site or remotely by City staff. A waste assessment will determine the volume of demand for each waste stream generated on site, and the appropriate bin size and service frequency required to accommodate each of the generated waste streams in order to remove all waste generated on site in a timely manner and not allow waste to accumulate or become a nuisance.
1. In the event a determination is made that the site does not generate enough waste to warrant bin service, or where bin service would be impractical or unfeasible, the Director may grant an exception and allow residential containers to be used for the service, but in no case shall minimum service be less than one (1) residential container for each waste stream generated on site.
F. Frequency of Collection.
1. Service to residential single dwelling units and multiple dwelling unit complexes shall be at the rate of a minimum of one collection per week for each container type (split, greenwaste, trash or recyclable).
2. Bin or box service to multi-family complexes exceeding 3 units, boarding houses, hotels and motels, restaurants, and all other commercial establishments generating garbage shall be at the rate of a minimum of one collection per week, and bin/box size and service frequency shall be sufficient enough to accommodate the waste streams generated on site, unless otherwise authorized by the Director.
G. Where a curbside recyclable waste collections program, or other special collection program as authorized by the city is implemented, the Director has the authority to designate some of the collections identified in Section 8.28.040 through Section 8.28.070 to be used exclusively for such a program.
H. The owners of all premises upon which refuse or rubble is produced or accumulated shall subscribe for service as herein required and shall be given the type and frequency of service, according to the rates set forth by the city council, that will, in the opinion of the Director, cause all refuse and rubble to be removed from the premises, so there will be no accumulation, collection and keeping of the same, on the premises to the detriment of public health and/or convenience.
1. The city reserves the right, upon notice to the primary account owner, to increase the number, bin size and/or frequency of service on an account if it is determined that the current level of service is insufficient to accommodate the waste stream(s) being generated, or if the compactor or box is repeatedly overfull or overweight at current service levels.
(Ord. 2018-03, 2018)