§ 9.04.200. Authority to mandate collection.  


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  • A.

    Overflowing carts and/or containers. Excluding bulk waste, solid waste shall be contained in secured, odor, and vector-tight plastic bags, and stored in carts and/or containers designated by the director for the collection of municipal solid waste. Municipal solid waste shall not be accumulated or stored outside of carts and/or containers, and cart and/or container lids must remain closed at all times when not adding municipal solid waste to the cart and/or container.

    B.

    Harborage of vectors or other health hazards. In any instance where the director finds that a cart and/or container requires immediate emptying or replacement due to breeding or harborage of vectors or circumstances creating significant potential for breeding or harborage of vectors, or other health hazards, the city official is authorized to order the owners and/or occupants of such commercial property or mixed-use property to have such condition corrected within twenty-four hours of written notice from the city official.

    C.

    Protection of public health and safety. Evidence of overflowing or uncollected solid waste and for harborage of vectors or other health hazards constitutes evidence that the owner and/or occupant of commercial property or mixed-use property is in violation of 9.04.170, which status allows the city to exercise its option of collecting the solid waste from that property. Prior to the city collecting the solid waste from the commercial property or mixed-use property in violation of 9.04.170, the city shall issue a notice to the owner/occupant of said property that said violation must be corrected within twenty-four hours of delivery of the notice. Failure to comply with the notice shall result in the city collecting the solid waste and for billing the owner/occupant of the property. The owner/occupant remains subject to applicable criminal penalty for continued non-compliance.

(Ord. No. 17380, § 1, 8-24-2010)