Ordinance 885ORDINANCE NO. 8 8 5
AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO THE LICENSING AND REGULATION OF OPERA-
TORS OF GARBAGE COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL FIRMS OPERATING WITHIN
THE CITY OF EDMONDS, ESTABLISHING FEES, AND PROVIDING PENALTIES
FOR VIOLATION THEREOF.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS DO ORDAIN
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Section i. _D_e_finitio_ns:
A. Refuse: All put rescible and nonputrescible solid wastes (except
body wastes) including garbage, rubbish, ashes, and solid market and industrial
wastes. Specifically excluded from definition as refuse shall be large trees,
earth, sod, sand, grave?, rocas, broken concrete, plaster, bricks and other
building materials, automobile bodies, large automobile or machine parts,
building waste, and fire refuse and waste.
B. Garbage: Putrestible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from
the handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food.
C. Ashes: The ri_sidue from the burning of wood, coal, coke or other
combustible materials.
D. Rubbish: Non-putrescible solid wastes (excluding ashes), consist-
ing of both combustible and non-combustible wastes, such as paper, cardboard,
tin cans, yard clippings, wood, glass, bedding, crockery and similar materials.
E. Person: The term person as used herein shall include one or more
persons of either sex, firm, partnership, association, institution and corporation.
Section 2. License:
It shall be unlawful for any person or operator to engage in, for hire or
compensation, enter into, contract for, or profide for, the collection or removal
of any garbage or refuse for any pecuniary benefit with any person or persons
within the City of Edmonds without first securing alicense from the City of Edmonds
so to do, as provided herein. Such license shall remain valid until revoked, but in
no event shall such license be in effect for any period greater than five (5) years
from date of issue without a renewal thereof; and provided, further, that in no
event shall the license fee charged be less than $100.00 per year. Said license
shall prescribe the area to be serviced by such applicant.
Section 3. _Fees:
The license fees for such person or operator shall be at the rate of
$1.00 per year per customer (as fixed from time to time by Ordinance), payable
in advance to the City in equal monthly installments, or in one annual payment,
in advance, each new year; the number of customers served by such licensee shall
be determined and fixed as of the 30th day of June of eac i year from and after the
effective date of this ordinance.
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Section 4. InEpS tion:
All persons and/or operators shall, as a condition precedent to the issu-
ance of said license, and as a condition subsequent to retaining a valid license,
make available to the City, upon proper request, books and lists of customer ac-
counts for inspection and verification of license fees payable.
Section 5. A lication.
Any person wishing to secure an operator's license for the collection and
W sposal of garbage within the City of Edmonds shall apply in writing, on forms
provided by the City, to the City Clerk; such application shall set forth, but not
be limited to, the experience and qualifications of applicant., the staff, equipment
and machinery available for such service; the capability of applicant to serve any
particular area of the City then in need of service, as determined by the City, and
such other particulars as may be required by said City.
Section 6. Licensee Rates: That all such service charges and rates and/or
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dut ies required of the customers served by such licensee shall be filed in writing
with and approved by the City prior to _ssuance or continuance of such license.
Section 7. Health Standards: All persons, associations and corporations shall
•dispose of all garbage and refuse through the use of licensed garbage and refuse con-
tractors, or by other means approved by the Health Officer or agent in accordance
with the State of Washington Health Standards, such as'nrial, hauling to sanitary
land fills, etc.
Section 8. _Revocation of _License: Such licenses ass issued shall Le subject
to revocation at any time by the City of Edmonds upon a finding by the saki City
that the license fees provided herein have not been paid, that the service provided
by such licensee is not satisfactory or adequate to the needs of the area serviced,
or that the capability of such licensee has been so diminished that he is no longer
able to offer proper service, and/or the said licensee acts in derogation of the
regulations set forth from time to time by the City of Edmonds.
Section 9. _P_e_naltr!-_ Any person violating any of the terms or provisions
of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof
shall be punished by a fine not to exceed $300.00 or by imprisonment in the City Jail
for a period not to exceed ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Each
day the violation continues shall be a separate offense.
Section 10. Insurance: No license shall be issued for any operator unless
and until satisfactory proof has been furnished the City Clerk that the vehicles to be
operated under such license are covered by public liability and property damage
insrance in at least the following amounts: $50,000 - $100, 000 public liability coverage
and $25, 000 property damage coverage.
Se_ctior. 11_Severabili Should any section, clause or provision of this
ordinance be declared by the Courts to be invalid, such declaration shall not affect
the validity of the ordinance as a whole. or any part thereof, except the part so
declared invalid.
Section 12. Short title: This Ordinance shall be commonly known as the
Garbage Ordinance r
Section 13. Elie tive date: The effective date of this ordinance shall be the
-� day of _ > . — 1961.
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ATTEST: MAYOR
CITY C3.ERK
Passed: -_L
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