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Home My WebLink About020557 ORD - 01/10/1989AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE CITY CODE, CHAPTER 21, GARBAGE, TRASH AND OTHER REFUSE, BY AMENDING SECTION 21-4, COLLECTION SERVICES OF THE SANITATION DIVISION AVAILABLE UNLESS PROPERLY REFUSED; AMENDING SECTION 21-19, SUBSECTION (B), CHARGES FOR SERVICES TO BUSINESS AND COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENTS; ADDING A NEW SECTION 21-19, SUBSECTION (C), WAIVER OF DISPOSAL FEES FOR NON-COMMERCIAL CUSTOMERS; AND AMENDING SECTION 21-21.1, CHARGES FOR DEMOLITION DEBRIS; PROVIDING FOR SEVERANCE; AND PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS: SECTION 1. That the City Code, Chapter 21, Garbage, Trash and Other Refuse, is amended by amending Section 21-4, Collection services of the sanitation division available, unless properly refused, to read as follows: Sec. 21-4. Collection services of the sanitation division available, unless properly refused. The collection services of the sanitation division shall be available to every residence, business or commercial establishment or other occupied premises within the City of Corpus Christi. Except as otherwise provided by this section, all owners, occupants or tenants of residential properties shall be obligated to subscribe to the City's collection services and shall pay the charges therefor. Any owner, occupant, tenant or lessee of a business or commercial establishment, or residential properties containing more than two family dwellings, who does not desire the collection services of the sanitation division provided for in this article shall not receive the services and shall not be charged therefor, upon his notifying the superintendent in writing that: (1) he does not want the services rendered to his premises; (2) he intends to and will remove the accumulated garbage and trash at his premises; (3) he will keep his premises in such condition that he will not violate the applicable provisions of this Code and other ordinances; and, (4) he will not, after such notice, avail himself of or use directly or indirectly the collection services of the sanitation division. If any owner, occupant, tenant or lessee who files such notice fails to comply with these conditions, then the superintendent shall make the collection services of the sanitation division available and said owner occupant, tenant or lessee shall pay the charges therefor. For purposes of this section, all premises required by this ordinance to subscribe to City collection services which are served by a private garbage collection service as of the final reading of this ordinance shall be exempt from the requirement to subscribe to City garbage 207JB048.ord 20557 MICROFILMED collection service until such time as the private collection service shall cease for the particular property served. Nothing contained herein shall prohibit the City from serving such premises at the request of the residents. All residential properties hereby exempted shall be required to subscribe to City garbage collection services upon the termination of the private collection service. The collection services of the sanitation division shall also be available to premises outside the City if the owner of said premises has contractually agreed to annex said premises to the City of Corpus Christi. SECTION 2. That the City Code, Chapter 21, Garbage, Trash and Other Refuse, is amended by amending Section 21-19 (b), Charges for services to business and commercial establishments, to read as follows: Sec. 21-19. Same --To business and commercial establishments, etc. (b) Charges for services to business and commercial establishments. All other business and commercial institutions and other occupied premises, except residences, shall be charged for the disposal services of the sanitation division at a minimum rate of seventy-five ($0.75) cents per cubic yard or fraction thereof of trash and garbage per week, based on the superintendent's estimate of volume of garbage and trash. SECTION 3. That the City Code, Chapter 21, Garbage, Trash and Other Refuse, is amended by adding Section 21-19 (c) to read as fol ows: Sec. 21-19. Same --To business and commercial establishments, etc. (c) All operators of privately owned vehicles transporting garbage, brush, demolition materials, etc. shall be charged the applicable disposal fee unless the vehicle operator presents a city utility bill or other document which certifies the operator as a paying customer of the City's sanitation services. SECTION 4. That the City Code, Chapter 21, Garbage, Trash and Other Refuse, is amended by amending Section 21-21.1, Charges for demolition debris, to read as follows: Sec. 21-21.1. Charges for demolition debris. The charge for disposal services of the sanitation division for debris from demolition of buildings and structures shall be assessed on a 207JB048.ord project basis at the rate of seventy-five ($0.75) cents per cubic yard, based on the volume estimated by the Superintendent of Sanitation. The building division shall provide the sanitation division with a copy of the demolition permits issued to insure proper billing. SECTION 5. If for any reason any section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, word or provision of this ordinance shall be held invalid or unconstitutional by final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction, it shall not affect any other section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, word or provision of this ordinance for it is the definite intent of this City Council that every section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, word or provision hereof be given full force and effect for its purpose. SECTION 6. Publication shall be made one time in the official publication of the City of Corpus Christi by publishing the caption stating in substance the purpose of the ordinance, this ordinance to become effective upon such publication. 2073B048.ord That the foregoing ordinance was read for the first time and passed to its second reading on this the pci, day of , 19 (VS9 , by the following vote: Betty N. Turner David Berlanga, Sr. Leo Guerrero Clif Moss Bill Pruet Mary Rhodes Frank Schwing, Jr. Mary Pat Slavik Linda Strong a&y, That the foregoing ordinance was read for the second time and passed to its third reading on this theg,1\1_ day of following vote: Betty N. Turner David Berlanga, Sr. Leo Guerrero Clif Moss a&0� attY That the foregoing or, this the Ip day of Betty N. Turner David. Berlanga, Sr. G� Leo Guerrero 4/1 Clif Moss 021_ Bill Pruet Mary Rhodes Frank Schwing, Jr. Mary Pat Slavik Linda Strong 19 by the ance was read for the hi rd time and passed finally on , 19 , by the following vote: PASSED AND APPROVED, this the ATTEST: 1 - City Secretary APPROVED: .2M DAY OF �,.e...-) HAL GEO CITY ATTORNEY tant City Attor 99.044.01 Bill Pruet Mary Rhodes Frank Schwing, Jr. Mary Pat Slavik Linda Strong O'th day of Nitce_at, aetze, ,190. THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS 2055'7 PUBLISHER'S AFFIDAVIT State of Texas, ] CO-,/ of C C County of Nueces ] ss: Ad # 16586 Before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public" this day personally came Deanne D. Palmer, who being first duly sworn, according to law, says that she is a Senior Accounting Clerk of the Corpus Christi Caller - Times, a daily newspaper published at Corpus Christi in said County and State, generally circulated in Aransas, Bee, Brooks, Cameron, Duval, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Jim Wells, Karnes, Kenedy, KIeberg, Live Oak, Nueces, Refuio, San Patricio, and Victoria Counties, and that the publication of "NOTICE OF PASSAGE OF ORDINANCE #20557 AMENDING" of which the annexed is a true copy, was published in the Corpus Christi Caller -Times on the 16TH day of January 1989, and each day thereafter for zero consecutive day(s). one Times $ 46.20 Subsord and swo Anna Garza Senior Accounting Clerk !e'ore me this 24th day of January, 1989. Notary Public, Nueces County, Texas INOTICE OF PASSAGE -OF ORDINANCE #20557 AMENDING Tit:2 CITY CODE, CHAPTER 21, COLLECTION -SERVICES OF THE SANITA- ,T)ON DIVISION AVAILABLE 'UNLESS PROPERLY RE- FUSED: AMENDING SECTION 21.19, SUBSECTION (B), CHARGES FOR SERVICES TO BUSINESS AND COIVIMER- C1X, ESTABLISHMENTS; AMING A NEW SECTION WAIVER OF DISPOSAL FEES FOR NON-COMMERCIAL CUSTOMERS; AND AMEND- ING SECTION 21-21.1, -CHARGES FOR DEMOLITION - DEBRIS; PROVIDING FOR -SEVERANCE; AND PROVID- ING FOR PUBLICATION. Was passed and approved by the City Council of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas on the 10th day of January, 1989. The full text of said ordinance is available to the public in the Office of the City /s/ Armando Chapa City Secretary City of Corpus Christi