Trash and recycling carts in Signal Hill: the local rules

What Signal Hill's code says

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Required collection service	You must subscribe to refuse collection service with the city or its contractor. § 8.08.050 · code text the owner of each single-family dwelling unit, multi-family dwelling unit, commercial unit and industrial unit where municipal solid waste is produced shall subscribe to refuse collection service with the city or its contractor. May be exempted from mandatory service until the premises become occupied. Applies: Premises with no human habitation and no refuse produced or accumulated for 3 consecutive months, with an approved application. § 8.08.050 · code text Premises which have been unoccupied by any human habitation and upon which no refuse has been produced or accumulated for three consecutive months may be exempted from mandatory service until such premises become occupied
Sorting organics and green waste	Cut in lengths small enough to fit the customer's regular household refuse container or dumpster. Applies: Unless diverted from disposal through a duly adopted composting program. § 8.08.050 · code text branches of trees, hedges, grass and hedge clippings and other green waste shall be cut in lengths small enough for ease of disposal in the customer's regular household refuse container or dumpster.
When carts must come back	Containers must be returned to an out-of-view location by eight p.m. the day collection is made § 8.08.050 · code text Household refuse containers shall not be set out for collection any earlier than seven p.m. on the day before the scheduled collection pickup and must be returned to an out-of-view location by eight p.m. the day the collection is made.
When carts may go to the curb	Not before seven p.m. on the day before the scheduled collection pickup § 8.08.050 · code text Household refuse containers shall not be set out for collection any earlier than seven p.m. on the day before the scheduled collection pickup and must be returned to an out-of-view location by eight p.m. the day the collection is made.
Where carts are kept	Keep containers in an out-of-view location. Applies: When household refuse containers are not placed for collection. § 8.08.050 · code text When household refuse containers are not placed for collection, they shall be stored so as to not be visible from any public street or right-of-way. Keep containers out of view from any public street or right-of-way. Applies: Recyclable materials limited to cans, bottles and cardboard. § 8.08.050 · code text Such recyclable materials must be held in a leak-proof rubbish can or container stored out-of-view from any public street or right-of-way

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Signal Hill's code: You must subscribe to refuse collection service with the city or its contractor. (§ 8.08.050); May be exempted from mandatory service until the premises become occupied. (Premises with no human habitation and no refuse produced or accumulated for 3 consecutive months, with an approved application.) (§ 8.08.050).

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