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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1981-2574 REFUSE COLLECTION SERVICE RATES; AND YARD SERVICE & A “YARD SERVICE SURCHARGE”. ORDINANCE NO. 411 AN ORDINANCE relating to garbage collection and disposal; establishing refuse collection service rates; providing for yard service and a "yard service surcharge", and adopting rules and regulations 11/ applicable thereto; amending Subsection 4.16.140 C of the City of Yakima Municipal Code; and declaring an emergency. WHEREAS, the City Council finds and declares an emergency to exist so as to authorize the immediate effectiveness of this ordinance in order to increase revenue to balance the City Budget for 1982, which budget has been considered and will be adopted within the time schedule provided by state law, but which makes it necessary that ordinances implementing that budget be enacted 411 with an emergency clause, now, therefore, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF YAKIMA: Section 1. Subsection .4.16.140 C. of the City of Yakima -Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows: "4.16.140 Classification of premises--Charges. C. The collection of all refuse in the residen- tial 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: 111 1. Commencing January 1, 1982, 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 $3.37 per month Extra charge for the second and each additional can at alley or curb . . . . $1.86 per month Extra charge for carry-otit service . . . Additional 50% of basic or 11/ extra charge "Carry-out service" as used herein means any service performed for collecting from sunken containers or from any container not placed Aft 111 at the curb or alley line from which collection is made. No con- tainer shall be collected if placed more than 100 feet from the curb or alley from which collection is made. Call-back charge $3.37 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 collection service at a time other than the regularly scheduled time. 110 Basic charge for single bin service (1.5 yards) $25.24per month Extra charge for the second and each additional bin $25.24per month 2. A surcharge, in addition to the charges imposed by subsection Ca of this section, is hereby imposed on each residential unit as a charge for service performed by the City for collecting yard material during the eight month period of each year com- mencing March 1 and ending October 31. The sur- charge, to be known as the 'yard service charge', shall be the amount of $2.51 per month, and 411 shall be billed to each residential unit at the time and as a part of the billings rendered for other City services applicable for that eight month period. Any person billed for such 'yard service charge' who does not utilize any such additional refuse collection service may request such surcharge to be cancelled from his billing by notifying the utility accounts office of the City of Yakima; and upon such notification being made, the request for such cancellation shall be granted, subject to verification by the City that such additional ser- vice is not utilized. 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 111 by this subsection. 3. All of the charges for garbage and refuse collec- tion provided in subsections C1 and C2 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 divi- sion 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 411 of water service charges. 4. Garbage and refuse collection charges will be suspended for any customer upon advance notice Alh to the office of the division of utility account- ing that a particular premises served will be -2- 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. IIP 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 provisions of this chapter 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 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 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 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 411 local improvement assessments, whether levied prior or subsequent thereto." Section 2. This ordinance is one to provide for the immediate preservation of the public peace, property, health, safety and welfare 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. 110 PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL, signed and approved this /7a day of , 1981. 40)97.,orn.,/ Mayor ATTEST: f ty k -3-