§ 94-6. Preparation for garbage collection.  


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  • Garbage collection begins at 6:00 a.m. and all mobile containers must be at the curb at 6:00 a.m. on the day of collection. Mobile containers which are not out when the truck passes will not be collected until the next regularly scheduled pickup date. Mobile containers shall be removed from the curb no later than 6:00 p.m. on the day they are serviced.

    (1)

    All refuse shall be placed in approved mobile containers, or placed next to said containers in throw-away receptacles or tied bundles not exceeding 50 pounds each. All receptacles placed at the curb next to the approved mobile containers shall be picked up and discarded. No stumps, logs or other materials that cannot be readily loaded by two men and no tree limbs placed by landscape or tree service contractors or workmen shall be hauled by the city.

    (2)

    Large bulky items such as stoves, refrigerators, water heaters, sofas, box springs, tree limbs, etc. which two men cannot normally and reasonably load into the back of a standard garbage truck or flat bed dump truck shall be picked up with equipment designed for large bulky items on a call basis. This service applies to residential customers only and does not include building materials, roofing, soil, rock, concrete, tree stumps, etc.

    (3)

    The sanitation superintendent shall determine that area considered to be the curb as it relates to refuse collection pickup point.

(Ord. No. 1414-09, § I, 2-16-09)