Rancho Palos Verdes Municipal Code Ch. 5.16 Paper Recyclers

No person within the area delineated on that certain map identified as newspaper collection map on file in the clerk's office in city hall, other than an employee of an agency or private collector which has a contract with the city for the collection of discarded newspapers, acting in the scope of such agency or employment, shall remove from any place or premises in the city or transport over the public streets thereof, any waste or newspapers which are placed for collection in or upon any residential, commercial or industrial property within the city. This section does not prevent the following:

A. A person having a valid permit as a salvage collector, waste collector or other permit under the ordinance regulating the licensing businesses adopted in section 5.08.010, from removing newspaper and/or wastepaper placed in waste receptacles for collection and disposal;

B. A person from removing newspaper which has been gathered on premises owned or controlled by him;

C. The immediate removal by any person of garbage, or newspapers which are found by the health officer, fire marshal or administrative services officer to constitute a nuisance or a danger to the public health, safety or general welfare; or

D. Any nonprofit organization having a permit issued by the city from collecting discarded newspaper in any manner which does not conflict with this section or any other provision of this Code.

(Code 1981, § 5.16.010; Ord. No. 60U, § 1, 1974)