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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinances Book 12, Page 61, No Ordinance NumberAN ORDINANCE DEFINING "GARBAGE" AND "RUBBISH", PRESCRIBING THE 61 MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR CONTAINERS AND TRUCKS TO BE USED IN COLLECTING AND HAULING GARBAGE AND RUBBISH, PRESCRIBING OTHER RULES AND REGULATIONS RELATIVE TO COLLEC- TION AND DISPOSAL OF GARBAGE AND RUBBISH, PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE, AND PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATION THEREOF BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COT.UJISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF PADUCAH, KENTUCKY: SECTION 1. For the purposes of this ordinance the word "garbage" shall mean and include the organic waste of animal, fish, fruit, or vegetable matter arising from or attending the storage, dealing in, preparation or cooking of food for human consumption from houses, kitchens, hotels, restaurants, stores, market and commission houses, and the word "rubbish" shall mean and include ashes, clinkers, cans, bottles, paper, boxes, weeds, leaves, grass, broken crockery and similar household trash, and any other kind of trash or waste material except garbage, trees and tree limbs. SECTION 2. It shall be unlawful for any person to haul garbage and rubbish other than commercial rubbish in the city except in trucks equipped with enclosed, compressor -type, waterproof bodies so as to prevent the contents from being exposed and from emitting foul odors. SECTION 3. All garbage and rubbish to be collected by the contractor holding a franchise contract with the city shall be placed in waterproof con- tainers with tight -fitting lids and handles and not larger than 26 gallons in capacity; provided, however that rubbish may be placed in other containers with the consent and approval of said contractor. Said containers shall be placed on. the ground level in a reasonably accessible place within 10 feet of the alley line if an alley is available for use by said contractor's trucks, and if no alley is available they shall be placed on the ground lebel at a reasonably accessible j place on the rear building line of the house or building to be served. Each family' to be served by said contractor shall pay the fee required under the franchise {I I contract. It shall be unlawful for any person except the contractor holding a franchise contract with the city to charge for collecting garbage or rubbish except commercial rubbish. i SECTION 4. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to allow garbage or rubbish to accumulate on premises owned, leased or controlled by him, it, or them for a longer period of time than one week or to place garbage in other than waterproof containers with handles and tight -fitting lids on such premises. SECTION 5. It shall be unlawful for any person to place grass, leaves, tree limbs, garbage, or any kind of rubbish in the gutter of a street or anywhere within a public way, or to place containers on a sidewalk or within any public way. SECTION 6. It shall not be mandatory that citizens and residents of Paducah use and pay for the services of the contractor holding a franch'sse contract 62 with the city fob collection and disposal of garbage and rubbish, provided they dispose of their garbage and rubbish in strict compliance with all lavas, ordinancel, rules and regulations governing such matters, now in effect or which may hereafter be adopted or promulgated. SECTION 7. It shall be unlawful for any pefison to dump garbage or rubbis at any place within the city except at the location or locations used by the franchise contractor. SECTION 8. A violation of any provision or requirement of this ordinance is hereby declared to be a misdemeanor, and any person, firm, or corporation upon conviction of any such violation shall be fined not less than $10.00 nor more than $700.00, or shall be imprisoned not less than five days nor more than 30 days, or shall be both so fined and imprisoned, and each day that a violation continues sha,l be deemed a separate offense. SECTION 9. If the contractor holding a franchise contract with the city or any of his employees or agents, violate any provision of said contract, the contractor shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject to a fine of not less than $10.00 nor more than �AOOo00 for each offense, and each day that a violation continues shall be a separate offense. SECTION 10. The provisions of this ordinance are severable. If any provision, section, paragraph, sentence, or part thereof shall be held to be unconstitutional or invalid, such decision shall not affect or impair the remaind of the ordinance, it being the legislative intent to ordain and enact each pro- vision, section, paragraph, sentence, or part .thereof, separately and inde- pendently of each other. SECTION 11. All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict herewitg are hereby repealed. SECTION 12. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its adoption. / iMa'yor Passed by the board of Commissioners May 16, 1950 Recorded by Sarah Thurman, City Clerk, May 16, 1950.