Huron Municipal Code Art. I In General

The City shall provide or contract with another to provide for the collection or disposal, or both, of garbage, waste, refuse, rubbish, offal, trimmings or other refuse matter under such terms and conditions as may be prescribed by a resolution or ordinance.

It shall further be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to be engaged in or carry out the business of collecting or disposing of garbage, waste, rubbish, offal, trimmings or other refuse matter within the City of Huron except by contract as authorized by Public Resources Code Section 49300.

(Amended during 1995 codification; Ord. 238 §1, 1987)

As used in this chapter, the words "garbage," "refuse," "ashes," "living unit," and "business establishment" have the following meanings:

"Ashes" means residue from fires used for cooking and for heating buildings.

"Business establishment" means stores, restaurants, banks, service stations and garages, passenger and freight depots, places of amusement, professional and business offices, and any and all other commercial or business establishments not elsewhere specifically mentioned herein.

"Garbage" means wastes resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food; and wastes from the handling, storage and sale of produce.

"Living unit" means a living quarter, whether located in a single- or multiple-family dwelling.

"Refuse" means combustible and semi-combustible trash, including, but not limited to, paper, cartons, boxes, wood, and tree and yard trimmings; noncombustible trash, including, but not limited to, metals, tin cans, dirt, small quantities of rock and pieces of concrete, glass, crockery and mineral waste; and street rubbish, including, but not limited to, street sweepings, dirt, leaves, catch-basin dirt, and contents of litter receptacles. Refuse shall not include earth and wastes from building operations.

(Ord. 114 §1, 1971)

A. It shall be the duty of every person in possession, charge or control of any living unit, business establishment, hotel, motel, trailer camp or labor camp with the City of Huron to provide or cause to be provided, and at all times keep or cause to be kept, receptacles adequate to contain the amount of garbage, refuse and ashes ordinarily accumulated at such place during the intervals between collections made by the City. The city manager or his delegate shall be empowered to set the number and type of receptacles required to service any living unit or business establishment covered by this chapter. All such receptacles shall be kept in a single convenient place, easily accessible to city employees engaged in collecting garbage.

B. It shall be unlawful for any person to deposit, keep or accumulate, or cause or permit to be deposited, kept or accumulated, any garbage, or other material subject to decay other than leaves or grass, at any place in the City of Huron unless such garbage or material is enclosed in metal receptacles conforming to the specifications contained in Section 8.12.030.

C. It shall be unlawful for any person other than the owner or person lawfully in control thereof, or an officer or employee of the City of Huron, to interfere in any manner with any receptacles used for the accumulation or handling of garbage, refuse or ashes, to remove any such receptacle from the location where it shall have been placed by the owner or person lawfully in control thereof, or to remove the contents from it.

(Ord. 187 §1, 1993: Ord. 114 §§2—4, 1971)

All garbage, refuse and/or ashes accumulated in the City of Huron shall be collected, conveyed and disposed of by the City. Reasonable collection schedules shall be established from time to time by the city council. No person other than officers or employees of the City shall collect, convey over any of the streets or alleys of the City, or dispose of, any garbage, refuse and/or ashes accumulated in the City, except as follows:

A. Exception for Actual Producers. This chapter shall not prohibit the actual producers of refuse or ashes, or the owners of premises upon which refuse or ashes has accumulated, from personally collecting, conveying and disposing of such refuse at a disposal site designated jointly by the City of Huron and the County of Fresno; provided, however, there shall be no rebate or credit in the service charges prescribed by this chapter by reason of any such producer or owner so doing.

B. Exception for Outside Collectors. This chapter shall not prohibit commercial or charitable collectors of refuse from hauling such refuse over City streets, if authorized by the City to do so.

(Ord. 114 §5, 1971)

It shall be unlawful for any person to place or bury garbage or refuse in any hole or excavation within the City.

(Ord. 114 §6, 1971)

It shall be unlawful for any person to burn any garbage within the City. It shall be unlawful for any person to burn any combustible or semi-combustible refuse except to the extent, if any, such burning is permitted by applicable air pollution laws, rules and regulations.

(Ord. 114 §7, 1971)

Service charges for collection, removal and disposal of garbage, refuse and/or ashes shall be set from time to time by the city council.

(Ord. 187 §2, 1983: Ord. 180, 1981: Ord. 114 §8, 1971)

The service charges provided for herein shall be billed monthly.

(Ord. 114 §10, 1971)

Any account not paid within thirty (30) days after rendition of the bill therefor shall be deemed delinquent and shall bear interest at one (1) percent per month thereafter. Any delinquent account is subject to stoppage of service without notice.

(Ord. 114 §11, 1971)

No service charges need be paid for any living unit, business establishment, hotel, motel, trailer camp or labor camp which has remained entirely unoccupied for thirty (30) days or more, or for any manufacturing or industrial processing facility which has not been operated for thirty (30) days or more, if at the time the charges otherwise would be due for that period, the owner, operator or his duly authorized agent or representative files with the city clerk a declaration under penalty of perjury correctly setting forth the pertinent facts.

(Ord. 114 §12, 1971)

The police department and health officer of the City of Huron are empowered and required to enforce the provisions of this chapter, and they shall have the right to enter upon all premises, except within private dwellings, for the purpose of ascertaining whether the provisions of this chapter are being complied with.

(Ord. 114 §13, 1971)

A. Portable toilets and private lunch wagons are prohibited from dumping sewage and wastes into the City sewer system; and

B. A penalty of three hundred dollars ($300.00) per lunch wagon will be issued to the owner of such vehicle for violation of this section.

(Ord. 307, 1995)

Any person violating any provisions of Sections 8.12.030, 8.12.040, 8.12.050 and/or 8.12.060 shall be guilty of misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be subject to a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00), nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00); or by imprisonment of not more than six (6) months; or by both such fine and such imprisonment.

(Ord. 114 §16, 1971)