HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance #2450 ORDINANCE NO. 2450
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH
AMENDING THE HUNTINGTON BEACH MUNICIPAL CODE
BY REPEALING SECTIONS 8 .20.160 THROUGH
8.20.250; AND AMENDING CERTAIN SECTIONS OF
CHAPTER 8.20 PERTAINING TO THE COLLECTION OF
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The City Council of the City of Huntington Beach does
ordain as follows:
SECTION 1. Sections 8.20.160 through 8 .20.250 of the
Huntington Beach Municipal Code are hereby repealed.
SECTION 2. The Huntington Beach Municipal Code is hereby
amended by amending sections 8.20.010, 8.20 .100, 8.20.110,
8 .20.120, 8 .20.130, and 8.20.150 to read as follows:
8 .20.010 Definitions . The following definitions shall ap-
ply in the interpretation and enforcement of these regulations:
(a) "Basic level of service" means that level of collec-
tion and disposal service necessary to collect refuse generated
by an average family in one unit of service, as specifically
provided in any given contract between the city and any person
for collection of such refuse, or as provided by resolution of
the city council. Refuse items or substances excluded from
collection by regulation of the director or by contract, as
hereinafter provided; refuse capable thereof which has not been
placed in containers or bundles within the weight and size limits
hereinafter set forth for containers or bundles, any unit of
refuse which exceeds four feet in length or which exceeds forty
pounds in weight , and any amount of refuse in excess of that
provided by such contract or such resolution as that generated by
an average family in one unit of service, are excluded from the
"basic level of service."
(b) "City refuse collector" means any collector either
employed by or under contract with the city to provide removal,
transportation, and disposition of refuse from residents and
users of premises within the city.
(d) "Director" means the Huntington Beach director of
public works or his authorized representative.
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(e) "Garbage" means all putrescible solid wastes, including
but not limited to vegetable matter, animal offal and carcasses of
small animals , discarded food containers , leaves , cuttings ,
trimming from trees , shrubs and grass , excluding human excrement
and animal manure.
(f) ""Nonunit of service" means and includes all locations
specifically excluded from subsection (1) .
(g) "Person" means any individual, firm, governmental
unit, organization, partnership, corporation, company or other
entity.
(h) "Refuse" includes both garbage and rubbish.
(i) "Refuse collector" means any person who picks up,
removes , transports or disposes of refuse , other than one who
does so from his own premises .
( J) "Rubbish" means all nonputrescible solid wastes,
including but not limited to special handling items such as
trees, tree limbs, logs , automobile bodies, motor vehicle parts ,
building materials , appliances , household goods , sod and dirt,
metal, wood and rock.
(k) "Solid wastes" means all putrescible and nonputrescible
solid or semi-solid wastes including semi-liquids or wet wastes
with insufficient moi
sture and other liquid contents to b q e free
flowing.
(1) "Unit of service" means each single-family residence,
and each dwelling unit within a duplex, a triplex or a fourplex re-
ceiving noncommercial refuse collection service. It shall not
include any hotel, motel, lodge, hall, club, tourist camp,
trailer camp, church, business or industrial establishment, or
any lot containing more than four dwelling units .
8 .20.100 Collection--Unit of service. (a) The city or some
person under contract with the city to do so, shall operate and
maintain a service for the collection of refuse from units of
service in the city, on a regularly scheduled basis approved by
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resolution of the city council, not less frequently than once each
week. The director may by regulation exclude from such service
any item or substance deemed hazardous , obnoxious or otherwise
inappropriate for such service.
(b) All refuse included in the basic level of service,
which is generated, accumulated, and lawfully placed for col-
lection at any unit of service in the city shall be collected
exclusively by the city refuse collector.
2.
8 .20.110 Collection--Other premises . Any premises other
than units of service may, at the option of the owner or occupant
thereof, use the collection service operated by the city refuse
collector, as hereinbefore provided, for refuse not excluded from
the basic level of service .
8 .20.120 Collection--Excluded refuse. The owner or occu-
pant of each and every premises in the city which generates
refuse excluded from the basic level of service, and the owner
or occupant of premises other than a unit of service who has
chosen not to use the collection service operated by the city
refuse collector for refuse generated on the premises , shall
remove and dispose of such excluded refuse in a manner approved
by the director and consistent with the provisions of this
chapter.
8 .20.130 Collection--City contract. Any other provision
of this code to the contrary notwithstanding, the city may enter
into contracts with responsible persons for the collection of
refuse within the city, utilizing such procurement procedures
and upon such terms and conditions as are deemed appropriate
by the city council.
8 .20.150 Disposal methods . No refuse collector or other
person shall dispose of refuse except by one of the following
methods:
(a) By burying refuse in a sanitary landfill that is de-
signed ., operated and equipped in accordance with regulations
set forth by the board of supervisors of Orange County;
(b) Any person may dispose of refuse from premises owned,
occupied or used by such person in a manner approved by the di-
rector and consistent with the provisions of this chapter.
SECTION 3. This ordinance shall take effect thirty days
after its adoption. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage
of this ordinance and cause same to be published within fifteen
days after adoption in the Huntington Beach Independent, a news-
paper of general circulation.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of
Huntington Beach at a regular meeting thereof held on the 18th
day of August , 1980.
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Mayor
ATTEST: APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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City Clerk _-` City Attorney
REVIEWED AND APPROVED: INITIATED AND APPROVED:
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C y Administrator Director of Public Works
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Ord. No. 2450
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss:
CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH )
I, ALICIA M. WENTWORTH, the duly elected, qualified City
Clerk of the City of Huntington Beach and ex-officio Clerk of the
City Council of the said City, do hereby certify that the whole number
of members of the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach is seven;
that the foregoing ordinance was read to said City Council at a regular
meeting thereof held on the 4th day of August
19 80 , and was again read to said City Council at a regular
meeting thereof held on the 18th day of August , 19 80 and
was passed and adopted by the affirmative vote of more than a majority of
all the members of said City Council.
AYES: Councilmen:
Pattinson, Thomas MacAllister Mandic,_ Kelly
NOES: Councilmen:
Finley, Bailey
ABSENT: Councilmen:
None
City Clerk and ex-officio ,Clerk
of the City Council of the City
of Huntington Beach, California
1, Alicia M. Wentworth CiJY CLERK of the City of
Huntington Beach and ex-offrcio Clerk of the City
Counci-, do iieeeby certtfy that a synopsis of this
ordiname ;..as been pui,;. -.ed in the Huntington
Beach m-'epegeent on
in accor'ance fith the 6ttyCharter of said City.`
City Clerk
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