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HomeMy Public PortalAboutOrdinance 216ORDINANCE NO. 216. AN ORDINANCE REGULATING TIIJ COLT) CTION OF GARBAGE. T iE CITY COUNCIL OF THS CITY OF BEAUPvMONT DO ORDAIN A5 FOLLOWS: Section to 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 rags, sweepings, plaster, cement, glass, crockery, metals, cans and ashes. Section 3. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person in possession of or having charge or control of any boardinE, house, lodgin;_=house, restaurant, hotel, aparti:iient, eating house, flat or dwelling house, within the City of Beaumont to ee;D or deposit any garbage on any premise s in said City, except in a suitable container with bail or handles and tight fitting cover, with a capacity of not less than four and a half (4,-) _salons and not to exceed thirty (30) callons, or to bury any F.arbae ut any tiiiie, or to keep or deposit any rubbish on any premises in the City of Heaumont 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 receptacle. (b) All garbage shall be placed in covered container, all rubbish in separate container, and alltin cans and other metalic articles shall be placed in separate container. (c) It shall be unlawful to place broken L1ass of any kind in container with y_•arba€.e or swill. (d) It shall ue the duty of any resident to either burn or otherwise dispose of all paper, leaves, rays, vines, saw -dust, and tree trimmings or employ the Garbage Collector, 4ith additional fee to be levied by the Collector to haul away such paper, leaves, ,:__cuss, vines, saw -dust end tree trinellings. Section 4. As often as may be necessary to keep said receptacle from over -flowing, the contents thereof iLust be delivered to some responsible person to be hauled and carried away from said premises and to ue disposed of according to law. Section 5. It shall be unlawful for any person to niove or carry through any public street or alley of the City of eea mont any garbage or rubbish except in vehicles havin`; metallic or netal-lined beds, and the `;arbaCe or rubbish shall be so loaded that none of it shall fall, drop or spill upon the (round. Every vehicle used in the work of collecting and disposing of „:arbaLe and rubbish shall be kept clean. Lection 6. anyone farming premises of one acre or more may apply to the Chief of Police for a special permit to dispose of his own garbage or rubbish on said premises in a manner approved by the City Council. Section 7. tit 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 any boarding house, restaurant or hotel. Provided further that any person other than said Contractor removing such 'swill" must first ootain a permit from the Health Officer of the City of . eaumont, and the said Health Officer shall have the power to grant oer_mits for 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, and that said Permit will in no way conflict with any existing garbage collection contract. Section 8. The rates for collection of garbage and rubbish to be charged by the contractor shall be as specified in a written agreement or contract oetween The City of Beaumont and Contractor, and shall be in proportion to service required. In all cases where dispute arises as to proper containers or to the rate charged or to be charged for any service provided in this ordinance, the matter shall be referred to the City Council of the City of Beaumont, and the City Council shall, upon due investiation, determine and fix such orice as it may deem just and equitable and the determination of the City Council thereon in all cases shall be final and conclusive. ection 9. The Contractor shall pay to the City of Beaumont, monthly, on the 10th. day of the month 2% of the gross revenue collected by or for the Contractor durinthe preceding month for the collection and disposal of rubbish and garbage. Section 10. The Contractor shall collect all fees and issue his receipt for same. should a resident fail or refuse to pay for collection ofgarbage or rubbish, such failure shall ue reported by contractor to the Chief of Police who will immediately see that the provisions of this ordinance are enforced ;rection 11. rin.y person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall ue deemed ,uilty of a zisdeueanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceedint; Three Hundred Dollars (300.00) or by in--pri soninent in the City Jail of the City of neauinont, or the County Jail of the County of riverside, for a period not to exceed ninety days, or by both such fine and irmprisorment. Section 1g. This ordinance is hereby declared to be an emergency ordinance necessary for the immediate preservation of public peace, health and safety, and the facts constituting its urgency are declared to be as follows: That the City is at this time experiencing a great increase in population and that the City has no ordinance governing the collection of garbage, and is not in a position to award a Garbage Collector's Contract, and that there is a great derhand for tarbage service due to the added population and health menace. Section 13, That this ordinance shall go into effect immediately upon its adoption. That the City Clerk shall cause this ordinance to be published once in the Beaumont Gazette, a newspaper of Eeneral circulation, printed and published in the City of Beaumont, California. ADOP.L.LD this 14th. day of July 1943. Attest: 6a2= Clerk. I, Bernice Conine, Clerk of the City of Ueauuont, California, hereby certify that the foregoing, beinw Ordinance No. 216 was introduced and read at a regular ::Leetinr of the City Council of the City of ueaumont, held on the 30th day of Jule 1943, and was passed and adopted by said Council -at a regular meeting of said Council held on the 14th day of July 1943, by the following vote: ,yes: Councilman Cox, Herbert, Ulaskowsky, LcDaris and Obst, Noes: Councilmen None. Absent: Councilmen None, DATED this 14th.day of July,1943, (meal) Clerk of the City of :3eaumont.