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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1970-1238 ORDINANCE NO. j2,3g AN ORDINANCE relating to health and sanitation; establishing rates and specifying practices for garbage and refuse collec- tion service; and amending Subsections 4.16.140 (c) and (d), and amending Subsections 4.16.170 (a), (b) and (c) of the City of Yakima Municipal Code. 410 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF YAKIMA: Section 1. Subsections 4.16.140 (c) and (d) of the City of Yakima Municipal Code are hereby amended to.read as follows: "4.16.140 Classification of Premises -- Charges. (c) The collection of all refuse in the residential classification shall be conducted by the City of Yakima equipment and personnel and financed by garbage and refuse collection fees hereinafter set forth. The City of Yakima shall not collect refuse from apartments or multiple units in excess of four units except upon the request of the owner or operator thereof. The following collection fees and practices shall apply for all garbage collection services conducted by the City of Yakima. (1) There is hereby imposed for garbage and refuse collection in the residential classification the following charges for each residential unit carried under the same account number and street address as for 110 water department metered services: Basic 1 -can residential service at alley or curb $1.40 per month Extra charge for second can at alley o r curb . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . 050 per month Each additional can at alley or curb over 2 cans .50 per month Carry -out service charge per can .50 per month The "carry -out service charge" shall apply to cans placed for collection more than twenty -five feet, but less than one hundred feet, from the curb or alley from which collection is made. No can shall be collected if placed more than one hundred feet from the . curb or alley from which collection is made. (2) Where garbage and refuse collection service is performed for apartments or multiple housing units wherein all of the units are carried under the same account number and street address as for water depart- ment metered services and the garbage cans are all 411 centrally located in one place, the basic one can residential service charge set forth in subparagraph (1) above shall be modified as follows: First residential unit .......... $1.50 per month Second residential unit 1.00 per month Third residential unit 1.00 per month Each additional residential unit. 1.00 per month The above listed charges shall be based on the total number of .residential units that can be used for house- • keeping purposes, and no discount shall be allowed for vacancies. (3) All of the charges for garbage and refuse collection provided in Subparagraphs(1) and (2) above shall be billed for and paid at the same time and for the same period as billings and payments are made for other City utility services; or, in the event a cus- tomer is served by the municipal garbage division but is not served with another city utility, garbage and refuse collection charges shall be billed and paid for according to the schedule which would be applicable to such customer were he so served with another city utility service. Accounts shall become delinquent if not paid within the time specified by Section 7.68.025 of the City of Yakima Municipal Code for payment of water service charges. (4) Garbage and refuse collection charges will be suspended for any customer upon advance notice to the office of the Division of Utility Accounting that a particular premises served will be unoccupied, and such charges will be resumed on notice to such office to resume service. No such suspension of charges for garbage and refuse collection service will be made for any premises served with . any other city utility unless all city utility service to such premises is likewise suspended. Application for resumption of service to a new customer shall be made to the office of the Division of Utility Accounts on forms provided for that purpose which shall contain the name of the customer and the 110 street address and number of units of the premises to be served. (5) Collection service may be suspended for nonpayment of accounts, but such suspension shall not relieve the person owing such account from the duty of complying with the provisions of this chapter or other ordi- nances pertaining to garbage refuse or sanitation. Such suspension of service shall render the premises where such collection service is suspended subject to condemnation for lack of sanitary requirements, and the owner or person in charge or in possession of said , premises shall be subject to prosecution for maintain- ing a nuisance thereon. (6) Upon failure to pay such charges and upon delinquency, the amount thereof shall become a lien against the property from which the garbage collection service shall have been rendered. Such lien shall be made effective by filing a notice thereof specifying the charges, the period covered by the charges and giving a legal description of the premises at which the service was rendered. Such lien shall be filed with the same official and within the time and shall be foreclosed within the time and manner prescribed by law for filing and foreclosing liens for labor and material. Such lien shall be prior to any and all other liens and encumbrances filed subsequent to the filing of such lien, but shall be subject to all general taxes and local improvement assessments, whether levied prior or subsequent thereto. - 2 - (d) The residential classification of refuse collec- tion shall include the collection of all refuse up to two cubic yards per month from private residences in the City of Yakima, and from all flats, duplexes and apartment houses, except as hereinabove provided, but which shall not include trees or large lambs: Branches and shrubbery • trimmings must be securely tied in bundles not to exceed two feet in diameter or four feet in length and placed in a location that is accessible to the collectors; (i.e. where there are no alleys, this material must be placed in front of the property at the curb, and where there are alleys, such material shall be kept on private property in an accessible location to such alley, without hindering or interfering with the normal traffic in the alley). Brush and trimmings must not be placed against any building or fence so as to constitute a fire hazard. City service does not include the collection of discarded fruit from trees, nor rubbish or debris of any kind except in minor quanti- ties, resulting from construction, alterations, demolition, remodeling or landscaping of any property. Grass, Takings and rubbish must, be in non porous containers. The collection of all refuse in excess of two cubic yards per month per private residence or apartment unit shall be the rate of ten dollars per hour." Section 2. Subsections 4.16.170 (a), (b) and (c) of the City of 0 Yakima Municipal Code are hereby . amended to read as follows: "4.16.170 Collection of Garba,e in Residential Dis- trict-- Regulations. There are hereby established the fol- lowing rules and regulations pertaining to receptacles, preparation and care of garbage by property owners or per Sons in control in the Residential District: , (a) The owner or person in charge of or in pos- session of any dwelling, flat, duplex or apartment house in the Residential District shall at all times keep or cause to be kept portable sanitary containers for the disposal,therein of garbage and refuse and shall depositor cause to be deposited therein such garbage and refuse. (b) It shall be the duty of the owner or person in control of any dwelling flat, duplex, or apartment house to furnish to and to see that his tenants are supplied with such sanitary containers as provided in this chapter. (c) Such containers shall : be watertight, of good construction with no major dents, of not more than thirty gallons capacity, shall have a handle at each side thereof and tight fitting lids.. Such lids shall be removed only when necessary to place garbage and refuse in such containers, or to take the same there - from. Such containers shall be kept in a sanitary condition with the outside thereof clean and free from accumulating grease and decomposing matter. The gross weight of any container when full shall not exceed seventy -five pounds." -3- , , Section 3. The garbage and refuse collection rates and prac- tices specified in this ordinance shall apply to garbage and refuse collection setvice rendered commencing October 1, 1970. Such rates and practices, as the same are now ipecified by Sections 4.16.140 and 410 4.16.170 of the City of Yakima Municipal Code prior to their amend- ment by this ordinance shall apply to garbage and refuse collection service rendered through September 30, 1970, and shall not be affected by this ordinance. Section 4. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect thirty days after its passage, approval and publication as provided by law and by the City Charter. PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL, signed and approved this 10th day of August, 1970. Mayor II/ ATTEST: pe7R - 7, City Clerk = 410 -4.