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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinances Book 12, Page 1122, No Ordinance Number1122 KMEND AN ORDINANCE AiPENDING SECTION 1 OF ARTICLE III, ARTICLE IV, SECTIONS 1, 2 & 3 OF ARTICLE V, SECTIONS 2 & 4 OF ARTICLE VI, SECTION 2 OF ARTICLE VII AND AR'TICLE'XII OF AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED: "AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR A REFUSE COLLECTION SERVICE FOR THE CITY OF PADUCAH; PRESCRIBING RULES AND REGULATIONS GOVERNING SANITATION AND THE COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL OF REFUSE; PRESCRIBING CHARGES FOR SAID REFUSE COLLECTION SERVICE AND THE i-IETHOD OF FINANCING SAID SERVICE AND PRESCRIBING PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION OF SAID ORDINANCE", WHICH WAS ADOPTED BY THE BOARD OF COI-EIISSIONERS ON DECEMBER 16, 1952. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF CO'411ISSIONERS OF THE CI^lY OF PADUCAH, KENTUCKY: SECTION 1. That Section 1 of Article III, Article IV, Sections 1, 2 & 3 of Article V, Sections 2 & 4 of Article VI, Section 2 of Article VII and Article XII of an ordinance containing the title quoted above, which was adopted by the Board of Commissioners on December 16, 1952, be, and the same are hereby amended and reordained so that said Sections and Articles as amended and reordained shall read as follows: "Article III Refuse Collection Service Section 1. Inaikguration and Frequency of Collection: Refuse Collection Service shall be provided to all households and business places in the City of Paducah at a frequency of once a week commencing the week beginning February 1, 1953, provided that the regulations set forth herein governing the types and use of containers and place of set out are adhered to. "Article IV Adfitional Refuse Collection Service Section 1. Establishment: Additional Refuse Collection Service, as defined herein, shall be provided to households and business places on request to the extant feasible in the judgment of the Director of the Department of Public Works. Additional Refuse Collection service for which request has been made shall not be provided by the City unless it can be clearly demonstrated that the charge made shall fully cover the cost to the City for same. SEction 2. Set Out and Frequency of Pickup: In all instances in which Additional Refuse Collection Service is provided, -the place of set -out and frequency of pick-up shall be determined by mutual agreement between the City and the party receiving said service, provided that in the event no reasonable agreement can be reached, the City reserves the right to so specify. Section 3. Dempster Containers: The City Commission shall determine the number of special containers of varying volumetric capacity of the type manufactured by Dempster Brothers, Inc., which the City shall own and shall maintain as part of the Cityts Additional nefuse Collection Service system. The Cuty reserves the right to determine where said special containers shall be located and the manner in which they shall be used. SECTION 4. Records and Exceptional Cases: The City I•ianager shall be responsible for maintaining a record of the amount of service rendered to and the charge imposed on each household or business place where Additional Refuse Collection Service is provided. In the event that the schedule of charges set forth in Article V, Section 2 is not deemed applicable or suitable due to the atypical nature of the service requested, the City Manager may designate such a request as an Exceptional Case and may negotiate an agreement for a special charge for such service, provided that each such agreement negotiated shall be submitted to the Board of Commissioners for review within 30 days from the time said agreement was entered into, and provided further, that said agreement shall continue to remain in effect unless the Board of Commissioners shall cancel same. ARTICLE V Financing Section 1. Refuse Collection Service: There is hereby levied a refuse collection service charge of eighty cents (80¢) per month on each household and each business place in the City of Paducah for the purpose of increasing the revenues of the General Fund out of which shall be met the costs of providing Refuse Collection Service, provided that households of which the lawful head is unable to afford said charge, as certified by the Cityts duly appointed Social Worker, shall be exempt from said charge. Section 2. Additional Refuse Collection Service: For Additional Refuse Collection Service there shall be levied a charge which, except for Exceptional Cases referred to in Section 4 of Article IV, shall be based on the following schedule of charges: 1123 ..'I 1124 Schedule of Monthly Charges Number of 3 .8o 5)3.40 . 6. o 4 1.70 5.20 8.60 5 2.50 6.80 11.20 6 3.40 8.60 13.80 7 4.25 10.40 16.40 8 5.10 12.00 19.00 9 6.00 13.80 21.60 10 6.75 15.60 24.20 11 7.70 17.20 12 8.60 19.00 13 9.40 20.80 14 10.30 22.60 15 11.20 24.20 16 12.05 26.00 17 12.95 18 13.80 19 14.65 20 15.50 Dempster Containers 6 Cu Yds "leek (Equal to 30 cans) 18.80 27.45 36.10 44.75 53.00 62.00 8 Cu Yds JEqual to 40 cans) 22.80 31.45 40.10 48.75 57,00 66.00 10 Cu Yds (Equal to 50 cans) 26.80 35.45 45.10 52.75 61.00 70.00 SECTION 3. Method of Billinr_; To the extent feasible, charges for. Refuse Collection Service shall be Billed monthly as a separate item on the water bill sent out monthly by the Paducah ?later :9orks and said charge so billed shall be payable monthly at the office of the Paducah i7ater IJorks in the same manner and within the same penalty -free period as required for payment of charges for water service. The water customer in whose name the water meter account is carried shall ge held respon- sible for payment of the full amount of the Refuse Collection Service charges billed, which total amount shall be based on the number of households and/or business places served by said water meter. Due to the daily, cycular billing system used by the Paducah .later Works, charges for Refuse Collection Service may be billed at the beginning, during, or at the end of the monthly period in which Refuse Collection Service is rendered, and the first billing period corresponding with the first period of service shall be the month of February, 1953, and thereafter in monthly cycles. In instances when it is not feasible or possible to utilize the water bill in notifying households or business places of Refuse Collection Service charges payable, bills shall be prepared at and dispatched from the City Hall, and shall be payable at the City Hall within ten days after date of rendering. 1125 Article VI Sanitary Regulations SEC^lION 2. Disposal of Refuse: No refuse shall be deposited or dumped at any location in the City of Paducah on private or public property unless the City Manager has publicly declared or privately certified in writing that such location is a suitable location for said deposit or dumping. Said declaration or certification may be withdrawn at any time when the City -County Sanitarium or the City Manager determines that said location is unsuitable for such deposit or dumping. SECTION 4. Private Collectors: a. No refuse in the City of Paducah shall be collected transported or disposed of by any person, firm or corporation, other than the City of Paducah, on a commercial, contract or agreement basis unless and until such agency has previously obtained a Smitten permit to do so from the City and has paid a permit fee of two dollars (u2.00) monthly in advance to the City of Paducah. Such permits may be issued to cover periods not to exceed six (6) months and shall not be transferable, and the permit fee shall not be refundable. Applications for such permits shall be presented to the City Manager in smiting and shall specify from what place or places the applicant desires to collect refuse, and no permit shall be issued without approval of the Board of Commissioners. Such permit may be revoked at any time when, in the opinion of said Board, the person granted such permit has failed to operate in a cleanly, sanitary and responsible manner. b. No wastes other than refuse, as defined herein, shall be collected, transported or disposed of in the City of Paducah except in a sanitary and sightly manner. c. Ido provision in this Section shall be construed to prevent or penalize any individual or business place from transporting or disposing of refuse produced by his household or business place provided that said refuse is transported in a sanitgry manner and is disposed of at a location declared or certified by the City Manager as suitable, provided that disposal by such means shall not exempt said individual or business place from the obliEation to pay the Refuse Collection Service Charge provided for under Article V hereof. 1126 SECTION 5. Control of Scavengers: No person shall rifle, pilfer, dig into or in any manner disturb containers containing refuse which have been set out at households or business places prior to collection. Article VII Disposal Locations SECTION 2. Users and Dumping Fees: Iiouseholds disposing of their own refuse at a City dumping place shall be charged a fee of twenty cents (200_ for each dumping. Business places or households disposing of their ovm refuse shall be charged a dumping fee of fifty cents (500) per truck load. Private collectors who are collecting refuse under permit shall be charged fifty cents (500)'per load for refuse and one dollar (}1.00) per load for non -refuse. Persons disposing of waste other than refuse, as defined in this ordinance, may utilize a City -maintained dumping place for a charge of one dollar (;x1.00) per load. Article III Effective Date:" The terms and provisions of this ordinance shall become effective on February 1, 1953, provided that, the provisions of sub -section 4a of Article VI shall not take effect until April 1, 1953•" SECTION 2. All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are, to the extent of such conflict, hereby repealed. SECTION 3. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its adoption/ Passed by the Board of Commissioners I.iarch 24, 1953 Recorded by Sarah Thurman, City Clerk, I•iarch 24, 1953.