HomeMy Public PortalAboutOrdinance 146ORDINANCE NO . ' w6
AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE COTJ.I+,CTION
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The City Council of the City of Beaumont do ordain as
follows:
Section 1: The word "garbage" as used herein shall mean and
include all animal and vegetable refuse and household waste which
shall have been prepared for or intended to be used for food, and all
animal and vegetable refuse from places where food stuff intended
for human consumption are handled commercially.
Section 2: The word "rubbish* as used herein shall mean
and include all refuse other than garbage, including papers, rags,
leaves, grass, vines, saw -dust, sweepings, plaster, cement, glass,
crockery, metals, cans, ashes and tree trimmings.
Section 3: It shall be unlawful for any person in possession
of or having charge or control of any boarding house, lodginghouse,
restaurant, hotel, apartment, or eating house, or flat, or dwelling
house, within the City of Beaumont to keep or deposit any garbage on
any premises in said City, except in a v ter-tighu meta-32ic c- --ar-
meta. -lined box., with suitable bail or handles and tight fitting
cover, with a capacity of not less than11allona and not to
exceed 450 gallons, or to bury any garba c, or to keep or deposit
any rubbish on any premises in the City of Beaumont for a longer time
than may be reasonably necessary for purposes of destruction or
burial of such rubbish, and no such person shall throw or deposit
any rubbish or garbage on any alley, sidewalk, or street, other than
in such receptacles*
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Section 4: at le, it - eek, and as often as may be
necessary to keep sid receptacle from over -flowing, the contents
thereof must be delivered to some responsible person to be hauled
and carried away from said premises and to he disposed of according
to law.
Section 5: It shall be unlawful for any peraon to move
or carry through any public street or alley of the City of Beaumont
any garbage or rubbish except in vehicles havinmetallic or metal -
lined beds, and the grVbage or rubbish shall be so loaded that
none of it shall fall, drop -or spill upon the ground. Every
vehicle used in the .:fork of collecting and disposing of garbage
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and rubbish shall be kept clean.
Section 6: P'At such times as there is in force a contract
entered into by the City of Beaumont with any person, firm or
corporation for the collection and disposal of garbage and rubbish
in the City of Beaumont, it shall be unlawful for any person other
than the contractor, or a person or persons in the employ of such
contractor, to collect any garbage or rubbish within the City of
Beaumont, or to remove or carry any garbage or rubbish through any
public street or alley of the City of Beaumont; provided, however,
that the word "garbage" as used herein shall not include what is
commonly termed "swill" from .1riy boarding house, restaurant or
hotel. Provided Further that any peraon other than said contractor
removing such "swill" must first obtain a permit from the it
of the City of Beaumont, and. the said
have the power -to grant permits fur the
removal of such swill only after he shall have satisfied himself
that the applicant is properly equipped to remove and handle such
swill in.a satisfactory manner.
Section 7: The rates; fp collection of garbage and
rubbish to be charged by the contractor shall betas follows: For
all private residences in the City of Beaumont, �? collection
per week, 50 cents per auonth; and for each additional collection
per week 25 cents per month;
For apartment houses and flats where one garb ,,ge can and_
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one receptacle for rubbish are used in coimnon oiiections per
week, for each apartment or flat,, cents per .month; and for
each additional collection per week, for each apartment or flat, ' 5)6-
cents per month;'
For apartment houses and flats, where separate garbage
cans are used, AJC collections ;ger week, for each apartment
or flat, cents per month; and for each additional collec-
tion per week, for each apartment or flat, five cents per month.
]?or unusual accumulations of garbage or rubbish, and for
places not herein otherwise provided, such rates shall be charged
as may be agreed upon between the garbage collector and the person
from whom suer'. garbage is collected; provided, that in all cases
;there dispute axises- as to the rate charged or to be charged for
any service provided in this ordinance, the matter shall be re-
ferred to the City Council of the City of Beaumont, and the City
Council shall, upon due investigation,' determine and fix such
price as it may deem just and equitable and the determination of
the City Council thereon in all cases shall be final and conclu-
sive.
Section 8: The contractor shall pay to the City of
Beaumont, monthly, on the first day of the month, __ a of the
gross revenue collected by or for the contractor during the pre-
ceding month for the collecting and disposal of rubbish and
garbage.
Section 9: Any person violating any of the provisions of
this ordinance shall de deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding Three
Hundred Dollars (4300.00), or by imprisonment in the City Jail of
the City of Beaumont, or the County Jail of the County of riverside,
for a period not exceeding three months, or by both such fine and
imprisonment.
Section 10: The Clerk shall certify to the adoption of
this ordinance and shall cause the same to be published once in
the Beaumont Gazette, a newspaper of general circulation, printed
published and circulated in the City of Beaumont, and thirty days
after its adoption, shall be in full force and effect.
aDOPTED this -25- day of 6 � , 1934.
attest:
r of the ty of - aumont.
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Clerk.
I, EERNICE CONI1 E, Clerk of the City of Beaumont,
hereby certify, that the foregoing ordinance, being Ordinance
No. '144‘ was introduced and read at a eGlla meeting of the
City Council of the City of Beaumont, held on the day of
1934, and was duly passed and adopted by said
Council at a:=. regular meeting of said Council, duly
held on the
following vote:
AYES: Councilmen:
day of , A. D. 1934, by the
NOES: Councilmen:
ABSENT: Councilmen:
Dr1TED this
— day of
, 1934.
Clerk of the City of Beaumont.
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