§ 74-40. Mandatory service.

(a)

Except as otherwise expressly provided by this chapter, the owner, tenant, or occupant of every improved parcel (a parcel with one or more businesses and/or residential buildings approved for occupancy) located within the city shall subscribe to a refuse collection service operating pursuant to this chapter. Each business (DBA) and/or residential unit with a separate address and each separate business unit and each separate dwelling unit, under separate rental agreement, with a common address located on such parcel shall subscribe to such refuse collection service.

(b)

Exceptions to this mandatory service requirement are listed in section 74-38 of this chapter, but in any case any parcel owner of a five-acre or larger parcel may submit a written request for an exemption from mandatory service to the director, who will consider such requests on a case by case basis. The director will submit a written response within 30 days of receipt of a written request either approving or denying the exemption from mandatory service.

(c)

The department may, in connection with refuse collection mandated by this section, adopt and issue from time to time, pursuant to section 74-2, regulations which prescribe the type, capacity and number of containers; the permissible loaded weight of containers; the weight, size, and method of packaging nonputrescible wastes; and may designate the location of refuse collection containers and packages to be set out for collection. The department may also issue regulations for remotely located accounts that provide for exempting, by the department, any such remote account from the mandatory service requirement of this section or that provides for a special fee, set by the department, for service provided to any such remote account.

(Ord. No. 2007-09, § 2, 7-19-2007)