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ORDINANCE NO , 2675
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH
AMENDING THE HUNTINGTON BEACH MUNICIPAL CODE
BY AMENDING SECTIONS 8. 20 .010 AND 8 .20 .060
RELATING TO REFUSE COLLECTION
The City Council of the City of Huntington Beach does ordain
as follows:
SECTION 1. The Huntington Beach Municipal Code is hereby
amended by amending sections 8. 20 . 010 and 8 . 20. 060 to read as
follows :
8. 20.010 Definitions . The following definitions shall
apply 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 pro-
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 pro-
vided; refuse capable thereof which has not been placed in con-
tainers or bundles within the weight and size limits hereinafter
set forth for containers or bundles , any unit of refuse which
'4 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 re-
moval, transportation, and disposition of refuse from resi-
dents and users of premises within the city.
(c) "Collection" means pickup, removal, transportation
or disposition of refuse, except by a person with refuse from
premises owned, occupied or used by such person, as herein-
after provided.
(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 , in-
cluding 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 nonpu-
trescible solid or semi-solid wastes including semi-liquid
or wet wastes with insufficient moisture and other liquid
contents to be free flowing.
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( 1) "Unit of service" means each single-family residence,
and each dwelling unit within a duplex , a triplex or a four-
plex receiving noncommercial refuse collection service. It
shall not include any hotel, motel , lodge, hall, club tourist
camp, trailer camp, mobilehome park, church , business or in-
dustrial establishment, or any lot containing more than four
dwelling units.
8 .20.060 Containers--Location. (a) Each refuse con-
tainer and any accumulation of refuse which is for collection,
shall be kept or placed in such a manner as not to be visible
from the public street except during or for the time fixed
for the collection thereof . During such period, any con-
tainers or any accumulation of refuse which is for collection
shall be placed as follows :
( 1) Near alley. On the premises , within five feet
of the rear property line , where there is a through alley
in the rear of the premises;
2.
( 2) Access from side entrance. On the premises
at an accessible point adjacent to any side entrance thereto
where no through alley exists;
( 3) At curb. At the curb in front of the premises ,
where no through alley or side entrance exists .
(b) No refuse container nor any accumulation of refuse
which is for collection, shall be placed for collection in any
public way, or at any curb or in any location visible from a
public street , prior to 6 p.m. on the day preceding collection;
any such refuse container shall be removed prior to 10 p .m. on the
day of collection.
SECTION 2. This ordinance shall take effect thirty days
after adoption.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of
Huntington Beach at a regular meeting thereof held on the 16th
day of___JanuqEy_ _ 1984.
ATTEST : APPROVED AS TO FORM:
City Clerk it ttor
REVIEWED AND APPROVED INITIATED AND APP VED :
ingCit A ministrator Director of Public Works
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Ord. No. 2675
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 3rd day of January
19 84 , and was again read to said City Council at a regular
meeting thereof held on the 16th day of January 19 84 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, MacAllister, Thomas, Kelly, Finley, Bailey, Mandic
NOES: Councilmen:
None
ABSENT: Councilmen:
None
City Clerk and ex-officio Clerk
of the City Council of the City
of Huntington Beach, California
1. Alicia M. Wentworth CITY CLERK of the City of
HunVngi,-n Beach and ex-officio Clerk of the City
Ccunc., .i:} r.a el7y certify that a synopsis of this
ordlran-,e - s teen prubilshed in the Huntington
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........... _.....ALICIA M WENTWQR.T.M........................
• City Clerk
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Deprdty City Clerk