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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance No. 1020 ORDINANCE NO. 1020 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AZUSA, REPEALING CHAPTER 2 OF ARTICLE V OF THE AZUSA MUNICIPAL CODE, AND AMENDING SECTIONS 5210, 5210.1, 5210.2 AND 5210.7 THEREOF, RELATING TO THE DISPOSAL OF RUBBISH. The City Council of the City of Azusa does ordain as follows: SECTION 1. Chapter 2 of Article V (consisting of Sections 5200 to 5200. 5 inclusive) of the Azusa Municipal Code is hereby repealed. SECTION 2. Section 5210 of the said Code is amended to read: "SECTION 5210. RUBBISH. DEFINITION. 'Rubbish ' as used herein means and includes any and all animal or vegetable waste resulting from the preparation of food, glass, crockery, bottles, tin cans, containers, and other combustible or non- combustible waste articles and materials which have been discarded or rejected by the owners thereof and set out or placed for collection. The enumeration of certain articles herein shall not act as elimination of other articles, but are used merely as a guide for the meaning of the term 'rubbish' . However, the term 'rubbish' shall not include rocks, dirt, substantial amounts of building materials, heavy trees or branches. The exclusion of heavy trees and branches herein is not meant to exclude lawn clippings or cuttings, weeds, shrubbery trimmings or other small trimmings. Ashes shall be included, provided they are placed in a wooden box or metal container, are wet down, and do not weigh more than fifty pounds per pick up. No person shall remove or convey any refuse upon or along any public street or alley, or other public place in the city; provided, however, that the provisions of this section shall not apply to any person in the employ of the City who shall be assigned by the Chief of Police to the work of refuse disposal, or to any person with whom the City has entered into, or may hereafter enter into a contract for the collection, removal and disposal of refuse, or to any employee of such contractor, during the time the contract shall be in force. " SECTION 3. Section 5210.1 of said Code is amended to read: "SECTION 5210.1 COLLECTION. Rubbish shall be collected in various sections of the City in accordance with schedules now or which may hereafter be approved by the Department of Public Works, subject to approval of the Council. If rubbish day falls on any legal holiday, the pickup service will not operate that day, but will be picked up in accordance with a special schedule to be announced at the time. " SECTION 4. Section 5210.2 of said Code is amended to read: "SECTION 5210.2 EXCLUSION FROM PICK UP . Stones are not to be collected. " SECTION 5. Section 5210.7 of said Code is amended to read : '� SECTION 5210.7 RUBBISH COLLECTION FEES. The following fees are hereby established as the fees to be paid to the City by the occupant or owner, as hereinafter set forth, for providing and making available a service for the collection of rubbish from each residential unit. The Light and dater Department of the City is hereby designated as the agency for the collection of such fees . A fee of $1 .50 per month, or portion thereof, or such other charge as may be fixed from time to time by the City Council by resolution, is hereby established upon each occupied residential unit, but no change of said charge shall be effective less than thirty days from the date of the resolution changing the same . Such charge shall be collected monthly upon billing by the Light and dater Department and shall be payable upon presentation of statement and shall be delinquent thirty days thereafter. The said charge shall be included on the bill for electric service. Notwithstanding the imposition of the said fee or charge upon the occupant, wherever the bill for electricity is paid or payable by the owner or other person, such owner or other person shall also be charged and pay said fee for rubbish collection service on behalf of the occupant or occupants . If the owner or other person pays such fee and he is not the occupant of some or any premises for which it is so paid, such owner or other person shall be entitled to reimbursement therefor from the occupant or occupants on behalf of whom such fee was paid by him. In cases where two or more residential units are served by the City with electricity through a common master meter, the person responsible for the payment of the bill for electricity shall also be responsible for the payment of said rubbish collection service fees for each occupied unit served by such meter and shall be entitled to reimbursement therefor from the occupant or occupants . For all occupied residential units where electricity is not furnished by the Light and dater Department of the City, the said charge per month per each occupied residential unit shall be payable bi-monthly by occupant in advance upon presentation of a statement therefor by the Light and 'dater Department . No person shall willfully fail, neglect, or refuse to pay the fee herein prescribed for such service within the time herein prescribed or to reimburse any person entitled to such reimbursement within ten days after demand therefor; and in addition to any other penalties, the City may discontinue the rubbish collection services for nonpayment of any such fee . In addition the said fee shall become a civil liability and debt due to the City from any person upon whom said charge is imposed.' SECTION 6. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this ordinance and shall cause the same to be published as required by law . Passed and approved this 6th day of July , 1971 . Mayor -2- STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS . CITY OF AZUSA I, DEAN KLARR, City Clerk of the City of Azusa, do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 1021 was regularly intro- duced and placed upon its first reading at a regular meeting of the City Council on the 21st day of June , 1971 . That, there- after said ordinance was duly adopted and passed at a regular meeting of the City Council on the 6th day of July , 1971, by the following vote, to wit : AYES : Councilmen : Rubio, Decker, Snyder, Clark, Solem NOES : Councilmen: None ABSENT: Councilmen : None C t Clerk I do further certify that I caused said ordinance to be published prior to the expiration of fifteen days from the passage thereof in the Azusa Herald and Pomotropic, a newspaper of general circulation, printed, published and circulated in the City of Azusa, on the 14thday of July , 1971, and that the same was published in accordance with law . Ci y lerk Publish Azusa Herald & Pomotropic, July 14, 1971. -3-