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ORDINANCE N0. 876
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF LYNWOOD AP/fENDING THE
FOLLOWING SECTIONS OF THE LYNWOOD CITY CODE:
SECTIONS 15.2, 15.6, 15•7, 15.12, 15.20 and 15•23
PERTAINING TO THE COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL OF RUBBISH
AND GARBAGE AND REPEALING SECTIONS 15.26, 15.27
AND 15.28.
The City Council of the City of Lynwood, California, does
hereby ordain as follows:
Section l. Section 15.2 as amended as follows:
"The purpose of this chapter is to provide rules and
regulations for the collection and disposal of garbage, rubbish
and, in a separate category, waste and discarded material from
doctors' offices, dental o£fices, convalescent homes, hospitals,
animal hospitals, veterinarians' offices, and other institutions
and businesses in the city wherein the treatment of human beings
and animals is either directly or indirectly involved. A service
to the citizens of Lynwood in the general category of rubbish
and garbage collection is to be performed either through a contract
between the city and an independent contractor or by city forces,
The City Council may, in its discretion, contract with an independent
contractor to give the contractor either exclusive rights or non
exclusive rights to collect and dispose of rubbish and garbage
within the city or to give the contractor exclusive or non-exclusive
rights to collect and dispose thereof in certain areas or districts,
or to certain classifications of occupants or owners and to withhold
these rights as to other classifications of occupants or owners.
No rubbish, garbage or waste material of any description shall be
removed from doctors' offices, dental offices, convalescent homes,
hospitals, animal hospitals, veterinarians' offices, and other where
in the treatment of human beings and animals is either directly or
indirectly involved, except that the City Council by resolution may
provide for such a removal and disposal service to such offices,
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institutions and places of business, or from any lot or parcel of
land where the owner or occupant is engaged in a commercial enter-
prise or business, or from any zone classified as a"C" zone by the
zoning ordinances of the City of Lynwood, except that the City
Council may provide by minute order or resolution for either a
partial or complete service of removal and disposal to the
categories hereinabove set forth."
Section 2. Section 15.6 is amended as follows:
"Except as provided in Section 15.4, rubbish not readily
susceptible to placement in a container may be placed in the same
manner and in the same places as designated for containers, except
that no single item placed £or collection shall exceed four feet in
length or two feet in width, nor shall exceed sixty pounds in
weight."
Section 3. Section 15.7 is amended as follows:
" Tree trimmings, brush, shrubs or other materials
susceptible to bundling shall be securely tied in bundles not heavier
than sixty pounds no longer than four feet nor more than twenty-
four inches in diameter."
Section 4. Section 15.12 is amended to read as follows:
"Al1 containers shall be of such size, shape or weight
that, when filled, they may be readily lifted for emptying into
trucks, and they shall be free of all rough or jagged surfaces which
might be likely to cause injury to persons handling them. Containers
shall be of adequate construction to bear the weight of the contents
and shall be so constructed as not to permit the contents thereof
to sift or pass through any opening other than at the top. No
container shall exceed six cubic feet or forty-five gallons in size,
and the weight of each container, together with contents, shall not
exceed sixty pounds."
Section 5. Section 15.20 of the Lynwood City Code is
amended to read as follows:
"The following charges are hereby established as the fees
to be paid for service rendered in the collection and disposal of
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garbage and rubbish.
(a) For each single-family dwelling, one dollar and
thirty-five cents per month for one collection per week of
combined rubbish and garbage.
(b) For units, two and above, one dollar and five
cents per month for each unit.
(c) Where commercial pickups are restricted to one
container per week, the charge shall be as provided in (a)."
Section 6. Section 15.23 of the Lynwood City Code is
amended to read as follows:
"This article shall not be deemed or construed to require
the payment of fees specified herein by any owner or occupant who
accumulates no garbage or rubbish."
Section 7. Sections 15.26, 15.27, and 15.28 of the
Lynwood City Code are hereby repealed.
Section 8. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption
of this ordinance and cause the same to be published in the Lynwood
Press, a newspaper printed, published, and circulated in the City of
Lynwood.
First read at a regular meeting of the City Council of said
City held on the 19th day of May, 19'70, and finally adopted and
ordered published at a regular meeting of said Council held on the
3rd day of June, 1970, by the following vote:
Ayes: Councilmen Byork, Green, Liewer, Siokos, Stevens
Noes: Counci
Absent: Councilmen "'"~"
ATTEST:
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I, ihe undersigned, City Clerk of the City of
Lynwcod, and ex-officio clerk of the Council of said
city, d: h~r~~uy rertif;~ that tne above is a true and
cor°ect copy of Ordinance Nc. 876 adopted by the City
Counsil cf the "ity of Lynwood, and that same was passed
on the ~iace an~ by the vote therein stated. ~
Dat.ed this 4th day of June , 1970 ,
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