The city is responsible for public health, cleanliness and sanitation in El Paso.
The purpose of this chapter is to provide for protection of the health, safety and
welfare of the residents of the city by prescribing minimum standards for the generation,
storage, collection, transportation and disposal of solid waste and related matter,
by providing for the issuance of permits to persons engaging in those activities,
by providing for the payment of fees, and by providing for enforcement techniques,
including inspections of premises and equipment, the revocation of permits and the
issuance of citations. The department of environmental services was created to carry
out this purpose as well as to oversee and perform duties and services relating to
areas of environmental concerns, including ordinance, statutory and other regulatory
enforcement by the director and his designees and by the employees in the code enforcement
division of the department, who shall also have enforcement authority as authorized
and provided in this Code; and to generally perform duties and services relating to
areas of public health, animal related regulatory services, cleanliness and sanitation
concerns as to be determined by the city manager. In partial furtherance of the purpose
discussed herein, curbside recycling reduces the amount of refuse sent to landfills.
