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Home My WebLink AboutORD 1910ORDINANCE N0. AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF RM, -TON, WASHINGTON, RELATING TO THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND SANITATIO.I, PRCWID1NG FOR THE EST,ABLISHhENT, MUNITENANCE AND OPERATION OF A COMPULSORY SYSTEM OF GARBAGE AD REFUSE COLLECTION ARID ITS DISPOSAL:11:EING D=P QM- T CHARGES FOR SERVICES PERFOMED A LIEN UPON PROPERTY; REPE.&LING SECTION 8-301 to 8-308 INCLUSIVE OF CHAPTER 3, TITLE VIII OF CODE OF GENERAL ORDINANCES OF TIE CITY OF RE�ITON AND ANY AND ALL ORD7- APICES IN CONFLICT HEREETH; PROVIDIfdG PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION THEREFOR. BE IT ORDAINED BY TRE MAYOR AND TI -7, CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RENTON, AS FOLLOWS: SECTION I: Intent and Scope of Ordinance: The maintenance of health, sanitation and public welfare require and it is the intention of this ordinance, to make the collection, removal and disposing of garbage, refuse, and swill within the City of Renton c ompulsory and universal. SECTION II. Definitions: (a) the word "garbage" as used in this ordinance means and includes all accumulations of waste :natters discarded as of no further value to tip owner, such as kitchen and table waste, bottles, cans, irrappings, md small discarded containers, small dead animals weighting not over fifteen (15) pounds, and hollow ware; but shall exclude all manure, sewage, large dead animals, cleanings from public and private catch basins, wash racks or sumps. (b) The word "refuse" as used in this ordinance means and includes waste matter discarded as of no further value, including ashes, cinders, clinkers, lawn cuttings and grass, broken up household furnishings and equipment, discarded hot water tanks, bottles, barrels, cartons, shrubs, small trees, small tree limbs, paper and scraps of wooden crates and boxes; but shall exclude large trees, earth, sand, gravel, rock, broken concrete, plaster, bricks and other building materials. Automobile bodies, large auto parts, building waste, fire refuse and waste. (c) The word 'tswill" as used in this ordinance means and includes all accumulation .of animals, fruit, or vegetable muter, liquid or otherwise, that at the preparation, use, dealing in or storing of mat, fish, fowl, fruit and ve etables, except coffee grounds. (d) The word "garbage can" as used in this ordinance reans a water -tight, galvanized, sheet metal, raised -bottom container not exceeding 4 cubic feet or 30 -1- gallons in capacity, weighing not over 22 pounds when empty, fitted with two sturdy handles, one on each side, and a tight cover equipped with a handle; such can to be rodent and insect proof and to be kept in a sanitary condition at all times. It shall be the responsibility of the owner of any residence, boarding house, apartment house or trailer camp to furnish or to see that the tenants or occupants thereof are provided with, or supplied with garbage cans as definedin this ordinance, (e) The term "garbage units" means secure and tight bundles, none of which shall exceed 3 feet in the longest dimension, a_nd shall not exceed 100 pounds in weight or such "garbage unit" may be packed in small discarded boxes, barrels or bags, or in securely tight cartons or other receptacles reasonably easy to be handled and loaded by one person onto a collection vehicle. (f) The term "Pers on" shall, mean .every person, firm, partnership, association, institution or corporation in.the City of Renton accumulating garbage, refuse or swill requiring disposal. The term shall also mean the occupant and/or the owner of the premises for which service herein mentioned is rendered. (g) The term "Garbage Disposal Site" and "Disposal Site" shall mean the areas owned, leased or controlled by the "King County Sanitary Operations Department, King County., Washirgton for the disposal of garbage, rubbish, or swill, or such other site as may be approved by the City of Renton and any other governmental a-ency having jurisdiction thereover, (h) . The term "Superintendent of Utilities" means the official of the City of Renton holding that title and office, or his designated represei ative. (i) The term "City" means the City of Renton, King County, Washington (j) The term "Contractor" means the one contracting with the City to collect and disp ase of garbage, rubbish and certain other waste as herein described, or the authorized representative of such contractor. (k) The term "Residence" mems a building or portion thereof contai ning.not mom than four dwelling units. (1) The term "Apartment House" means a building or portion thereof containing five or more dwelling units, (m) The term "alley". means public or private way giving access to the rear or lots or buildings.. -2- (n) The term 'tStreet't means a public or private way, other than "alleys" used for public travel. SECTION III: Garbage, refuse and swill collections from permanent abodes such as homes, dwellings, boarding houses, apartments, flats, schools, churches, public buildings, hotels, hospitals, charitable institutions, resident clubs, etc. shall be collected by the City of Rentont s contractor, as more specifically hereinafter provided. Garbage --refuse shall be collected by the City of Rentonts contractor from commercial business firms and from places of business located in residential zones at each regular collection as more specifically hereinafter provided. All collections shall be made in accordance with the rules and regulations which shall be promulgated from time to time by the Superintendent of Utilities of tle City of Renton; all persons in the City of Renton shall be governed by and comply with this ordinance and all rules and regulations promulgaged hereunder. Swill shall also be collected from commercial or business firms as heretofore stated, but the owner or operator of any commercial business establishment may arrange for the disposition of such swill privately provided, however, that the person responsible for the hauling and disposition of such swill shall first have applied for and received a permit from the Superintendent of Utilities, in whom is hereby vested the right to inspect such collection and disposition of swill and to suspend or revoke any such permit for cause or causes found by him to be sufficient. SECTION N: All persons accumulating garbage, refuse or swill in the City of Renton shall place and accumulate same in garbage cans or garbage units as defined heretofore in this ordinance. (a) It shall be unlawful to deposit, throw, or place any garbage or refuse or swill in any lane, alley, street, or other public place, or to deposit t, throw or place any garbage or refuse on any p?ivate property regardless of oimership,unless said Garbage or refuse is placed in garbage containers, the covers of ,,Thich shall not be removed except when necessary for the depositing or removing of garbage or refuse; provided further that boxes, small barrels, cartons, shrubs, small trees, small tree limbs, scraps of zoden crates and boxes, broken up household furniture and equipment, paper, holloware and rubbish in general, may be broken up or cut up and placed in -3- garbage units as defined heretofore in this ordinance. Any unauthorized accumulation of garbage, refuse or swill on any premises is hereby declared to be a nuisance and is prohibited. (b) No garbage can when filled shall weigh more than 100 pounds and shall be so packed that the contents thereof will dump out readily when can is inverted. All garbage cans, b.ndles, disposal receptacles units, as above specified, shall be placed in convenient accessible locations upon the ground level or ground floor, and as near as ptacticable at the anproxLmate rear of the building or near the alley, street or road at which eo llecti on trucks are to be loaded; all .,calks, paths, driveways to the place of loading shall have an overhead clearance of not less than 8 feet, but in no event shall ordinance defined cans or units be placed a distance greater than 60 feet from the street, alley or road on the days of collection. (c) Any person as lmrein defined accumulating garbage, refuse or swill in C. the downtown or suburban business areas whose location requires the placing of cans or units on sidewalks or alleys for collection shall not place same on sidewalk or alley until the close of each business day, and shall remove cans from sidewalk or alley immediately after the opening for business each morning. This requirement shall be rigidly enforced. (d) No hot ashes or hot clinkers shall be placed in any garbage can or container for collect' on or removal. All kitchen, table and cooking waste before being deposited an the cans as hereinbefore provided shall be drained and wrapped in paper or other material in such a manner as to prevent as nearly as possible moisture from such garbage from coming in contact with sides or bottoms of the metal c onta irB rs. (e) Sufficient garbage cans must be provided for the collection of all garbage as defined in this ordinance. Worn out and improper cans will be discarded and the decision of the Superintendent of Utilities shall be final in any dispute regarding the type, number and condition of garbage can or cans. It shall be unlawful, except .as authorized by the respective owner or the City to deposit any garbage, refuse, swill or other mate:Oal in any garbage can, owned by another party or to remove the cover therefrom; said cover shall be securely placed on each ordinance defined can or unit at all tiros, except when it is necessary to remove same for deposit or at times of collection. (f) Contagious Disease Refuse. The removal of wearing, bedding; or. other refuse from homes or other places where highly infectious or contagious diseases have prevailed shall be performed under the supervision and direction of the City Health Officer. Such refuse shall not be placed in containers for regular collections. SECTION V: the Superintendent of Utilities of the City of Renton, or his duly authorized representative, be and he is hereby authorized and directed to supervise the collection and disposal of all garbage, refuse and swill as herein defined SECTION VI: It s%lall be unlawful for any person except the duly authorized Cityts Contractor, his employees or the designated employees of the City of Renton to collect and haul garbage, refuse and swill through the streets of the City except as hereinbefore prov#ded'for swill originating in commercial establishments within the City of Renton. SECTION VII Waste paper, boxes, rubbish and debris, brush, leares, grass, woods and cuttings from trees, lawns, shrubs and gardens, may be burned in furnaces on private property; or they may be burned in outside fireplaces, private incinerator or in open fires, provided that a proper permit has first been secured from the Fire Chief of the City of Renton. SECTION VIII: All garbage, refuse and swill as harein provided will be collected within the boundaries of the City of Fenton as follows: A. Regular collections from business firms and commercial enter- prises will be made as often as reouired but shall not exceed one pick. -up per day, five (5) days per week, Monday through Friday, between the hours of 4 o'clock A.M, and 10:00 of clock A,M, B. Regular collection from residential dwellings shall be made one day per week between the hours of 6:00 o'clock A.M. and 4:00 otclock -5- SECTION IX: The Contractor shall collect the charges for services rendered hereunder from the person as hereuntofore defined for whom collection services are furnished. The Contractor is authorized and directed to bill such person monthly or hi -monthly. Al h charges for collect^on services rendered and bi Aereunder shall be payable to the Ci.tyl s contractor and if not paid within fifteen days from billing date, following in which services are rendered, such charge shall become delinquent, upon such delinquency and if the account is not then paid within thirty days, the Contractor, if so ordered by the Superintendent of Utilities, shall cease .all further collections for said account until payment of the accumulated fees has been made in full. The stoppage of services hereinabove authorized for non-payment of collection charges shall be in addition to the rights of, the Contractor and/or the City to proceed for the collection of said unpaid charges in the manner provided by law. Furthermore upon failure to pay such charges and upon delinquency, the contractor shall notify the Superintendent of Utilities in writing of the name, address, account number of such delinquency and the amount thereof shall become a lien against the property for which the collection service is rendered. Such lien shall be made effective by filing a notice thereof specifying the charges, the period covered by the charges, and giving the legal description of the premises for which the service was rendered. Such lien shall be filed with the County Auditor within the time required and shall be foreclosed within the time and in the manner as is prescribed by State law for filing and foreclosing liens for labor and material. Furthermore, such liens shall be prior to any and all other liens and encumbrances filed subsequent to the filing of such lien with the County Auditor except the lien of general taxes and local improvement assessmnts whether levied prior or subsequent thereto. SECTION X: If any section, sub -section, sub -division, sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance is for any reason held to be unconstitutional, or void, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portion or portions the re of . SECTION XI: The violation of, or failure to comply with any provision of this ordinance shall be punishable upon conviction thereof by a fine of not more than ;100,00 or by imprisonment in the City Jail for a period not to exceed thirty (30) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. W '1 , SECTION XII: Section 8-301 to Section 8-308 inclusive of Chapter 3, Title VIII of Code of General Ordinances of the City of Renton, together with any other Ordinance or part of an ordinance in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. SECTION XIII: This ordinance shall take effect and be in full force on and after the lst day of January, 1962, after its passage, approval and publication in accordance with the law. Cc-, tU be PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL this 3_d.ay of aeptepber., 1961. Helmie Nelson, City Clerk ctc b e., APPROVED BY THE 1,WfOR this day of s .amb .r., 1961. prank Alimen , iayor APMOVED AS TO FOMT: Gerard M. Shellan, City Attorney RA'T'E OF FU3L,lr,;HTIO- DCS' -7-