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Home My WebLink About1982-2658 REFUSE COLLECTION SERVICE RATES • III ORDINANCE NO. 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 applicable thereto; amending Subsection.4.16.140 C of the City of Yakima Municipal Code; and declaring an emergency. WHEREAS, City of Yakima Ordinance No. 2637 enacted September 21, 1982, provided, among other things, for the repeal of Section 4.16.140 of the City of Yakima Municipal Code, and • WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 2637 is suspended from taking effect by a referendum petition filed with the Yakima City Clerk, with the result that the effectiveness of Ordinance No. 2637 is currently suspended so that Section 4.16.140 of the City of Yakima Municipal Code remains in effect pending the disposition, of those referendum proceedings, and WHEREAS, the amendment of Subsection 4.16.140 C of the City of Yakima Municipal Code as provided herein is not intended by the Yakima City Council as a repeal or amendment of Ordinance No. 2637, nor is it intended that Ordinance No. 2637 and the pending referendum proceedings be superseded or in any manner affected by the amendment of Subsection 4.16.140 C ( as provided herein; rather, this amendatory ordinance is enacted • solely for the purpose of increasing rates for garbage and refuse service performed by the. City pursuant to the provisions of the currently effective Section 4.16.140 of the City of Yakima Municipal Code, and WHEREAS, the City Council finds and declares an emergency ill to exist so as to authorize the immediate effectiveness of this ) ordinance in order to increase revenue to balance the City for 1983, which budget has been considered and will be adopted • within the time schedule provided by state law, but which makes, 411/ it necessary that ordinances implementing that budget be enacted 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 !II Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows: II/ "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: 1. Commencing January 1, 1983, 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 All multiple dwelling: • Basic charge for one-can residential service at alley or curb $3 87 per month , . Extra charge for the second and each additional can at alley or!curb . . . . $2.14 per month Extra charge for carry-out service . . . Additional 507 n0 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. 4 Call-back charge ...... . . . . . $3.87 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 H • 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. _ Basic charge for single bin service (1.5. yards) $25.24 per 111 Extra charge for the second and each additional bin $25.24 per month • . , . . • -2- . . . . II, 2. A surcharge, in addition to the charges imposed by subsection Cl of this section, is hereby imposed on each residential unit as a charge for service performed by the City for collecting yard material gi. 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 $2.89 per month, and 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 by this subsection. 3. All of the charges for garbage and refuse collection provided in subsections Cl 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 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 appli- cable to such customer were he so served with another City utility service. Accounts shall become delin- quent 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 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 will be made for any premises served with any other City utility unless all City utility service to .-. such premises is likewise suspended. /-,-, Ilk , . ... . Application for resumption of service - a , new customer shall be made to the office of. the divi- sion of utility accounts on forms provEdedOr',- - that purpose which shall contain the name of the, customer and the street address and number of units of the premises to be served. AIL IP 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 -3- 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 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." 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. PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL, signed and approved this '/ day of , 1982. 11 g„, Mayor ATTEST: _ - 111 1 111 -4-