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Home My WebLink About1979-2272 REFUSE COLLECTION SERVICE RATES, YARD SERVICE & YARD SERVICE SURCHARGE; RULES & REGULATIONS THERETO. e ORDINANCE NO. 0 2;17 O 2_ 411 AN ORDINANCE relating to garbage collection and disposal; establishing refuse collection service rates; pro- viding for yard service and a "yard service sur- charge", and adopting rules and regulations applicable thereto; amending Section 4.16.010 and Subsections 1110 4.16.140 (c) and 4.16.140 (d) of the City of Yakima Municipal Code; and declaring an emergency. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF YAKIMA: Section 1. Section 4.16.010 of the City of Yakima Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows: "4.16.010 Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings ascribed to them, unless the context indicates otherwise: 1. 'Refuse' shall mean all sweepings, trash, rub- 411 bish, litter, garbage, industrial or domestic wastes, organic wastes or residue of animals sold as meat, fruit or other vegetable matter from kitchens, dining rooms, markets, or places dealing in or handling meats, fowl, fruits, grain or vegetables, ashes and cinders, offal, animal excreta and accumulated waste materials or substances which may become nuisances. 2. 'Prepared garbage' shall mean waste materials from kitchens, dining rooms and similar places from which liquids have been drained and solid matter wrapped in paper. 3. 'Raw garbage' shall mean waste material from kitchens, dining rooms and similar places from which liquids have been drained. 4. 'Trash' shall mean waste material containing no putrid matter. 5. 'Ashes' shall mean residue resulting from the combustion of coal, coke or wood in domestic, industrial or commercial stoves, furnaces or boilers. 6. 'Yard material' shall mean waste material from tree and shrub trimmings, yard trimmings, leaves and brush. 7. 'Special haul material' shall mean waste material such as dirt, wood, stone, brick, plaster or materials resulting from the demolition, altera- tion or construction of buildings or structures." Section 2. Subsection 4.16.140 (c) of the City of Yakima Muni- cipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows: "4.16.140 Classification of premises--Charges. (c) The collection of all refuse in the residential 411 classification shall be conducted by the City of Yakima equip- ment and personnel and financed by garbage and refuse collec- tion 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. Commencing March 1, 1979, there are hereby imposed for refuse collection in the residential classifi- cation the following charges for each single family dwelling and for each residential unit in any multiple dwelling: Basic charge for one-can residential service at alley or curb $2 53 per mon., Extra charge for the second and each additional can at alley or curb . . . 1.40 per month Surcharge for carry-out service . . . Additional 50% of basic or extra charge 'Carry-out service' as used herein means any service performed for collecting from sunken containers or from any container not placed at the curb or alley line from which collection is made. No container shall be collected if placed more than 100 feet from the curb or alley from which collection is made. Call-back charge $ 2.53 flat rate 'Call-back charge' as used herein means a charge to be imposed when any customer fails to place the garbage can at the appropriate place for collection during the regularly scheduled pickup, resulting in a customer request for garbage collec- tion service at a time other than the regularly scheduled time. Basic charge for single bin service (1.5 yards) 18.95 per month Extra charge for the second and each additional bin 11.00 per month 2. A surcharge of $1.88 per month, in addition to the charges imposed by item (c) 1 hereinabove, is hereby • imposed on each residential unit for an eight month period of each year. Such eight month period shall commence during the month of February or March, and shall terminate during the month of October or November, as the case may be, for any particular residential unit depending on and to coincide with the billing cycle for city services to such residen- tial unit. Where refuse collection service is performed for multiple dwellings wherein all units are carried under a single account number and street address for water department metered services, the multiple dwelling shall be deemed a single residential unit for the purpose of computing the surcharge imposed it by this subsection. The surcharge imposed by this subsection shall be known as the 'yard service charge', and it is the intent of this subsection to impose such charge for additional service performed by the City for collecting yard material. Any person billed for such 'yard service charge' who does not utilize any such additional refuse collection service -2- ' may request such surcharge to be cancelled from his billing by notifying the utility accounts office of the City of Yakima; and upon such noti- fication being made, the request for such cancel- . lation shall be granted, subject to verification by the City that such additional service is not utilized. 3. All of the charges for garbage and refuse collec- tion provided in subsections (c) 1 and (c) 2 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 customer 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 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 account- ing 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 like- wise suspended. Application for resumption of service to a new customer shall be made to the office of the divi- sion of utility accounts on forms provided for that purpose which shall contain the name of the customer and the street address and number of units of the premises to be served. 5. Collection service may be suspended for nonpay- ment of accounts, but such suspension shall not relieve the person owing such account from the duty of complying with the provisionsof this chap- ter or other ordinances pertaining to garbage, refuse or sanitation. Such suspension of ser- vice shall render the premises where such collec- tion service is suspended subject to condemna- tion for lack of sanitary requirements, and the owner or person in charge or in possessL n of said premises shall be subject to prosecution for maintaining a nuisance thereon. 6. Upon failure to pay such charges and upon delin- quency, the amount thereof shall become a lien against the property from which the garbage collec- 110 tion 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.andlocal improvement assessments, whether levied prior or subsequent thereto," -3- 4. Section 3. Subsection 4.16.140 (d) of the City of Yakima Muni- cipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows: "4.16.140 Classification of premises--Charges. (d) The yard service collection, for which the 'yard service charge' is imposed by subsection (c) 3 of this section, shall include the collection of yard material, 4110 not to exceed the equivalent of five containers, bags or boxes (each of which shall not exceed 33 gallon capacity) per week during the eight month period for which the 'yard service charge' is billed to any particular premises. Except for tree and shrub trimmings, the yard material shall be collected in nonporous, disposable containers, bags or boxes, to be collected and disposed of along with the yard material contents, and collection crews shall not be required to return containers used for disposing yard material. The yard material which will be so col- lected shall not include trees or large limbs; and tree and shrub trimmings not susceptible to being stored for collection in containers, bags or boxes shall be securely tied in bundles not to exceed two feet in diameter or four feet in length. Yard material must be placed for disposal at the curb or 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 col- lection of discarded fruit from trees, nor rubbish or debris of any kind except in minor quantities resulting from construction, alterations, demolition, remodeling or landscaping of any property. Grass, rakings and rub- bish must be in nonporous containers. The collection of yard material in excess of the equivalent of five 33 gallon containers per week from any private residence shall be charged at a rate or fee to be established from time to time by the refuse superin- tendent." Section 4. This ordinance is one to provide for the immediate preservation of the public peace, property, health, safety and wel- fare of the people of the City of Yakima and an emergency is hereby • declared to exist and this ordinance shall be in full force and effect immediately upon its passage, approval and publication as provided by law and by the City Charter. PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL, signed and approved this eQ4 day of 1979. /2er AP , . !riff Mayor ATTEST: Deputy City Clerk -4-