HomeMy WebLinkAbout027354 ORD - 07/24/2007AN ORDINANCE
AMENDING THE CODE OF ORDINANCES, CITY OF CORPUS
CHRISTI, CHAPTER 21, GARBAGE, TRASH AND OTHER REFUSE,
REGARDING DING INCREASES TO ES URCE RECOVERY FEES;
PROVIDING FOR PENALTIES; PROVIDING FOR SEVERANCE;
PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE; AND PROVIDING FOR
PUBLICATION.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
TEXAS, THAT:
SECTION 1. Section 21-40, Code of Ordinances, is amended by revising the table in
subsection (a) and revising subsection (d)(2) to read as follows:
Sec. 21.40. Charges --For collection services within the City of Corpus Christi.
(a) The following charges apply to the collection of solid waste from solid waste services
department customers located within the limits of the City of Corpus Christi. In addition
to the charges listed below, each customer is liable for any applicable federal/state
surcharges or fees specified in section 21-20 and state and city taxes. The charges for
collection services are:
Type
Description
Minimum Charge Per
Month or Fraction Thereof
Collection
(1)
' One -family dwelling
$4114-5 ,
$14.95
(2)
Two-family dwelling on one (1) water and/or gas $2,c1;51)
meter 1$29.90,
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(3)
Two-family dwelling on separate water and/or
gas meters
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$14.95 each unit
(4)
Apartment
i $44,7-5
14.95 per unit
(5)
One -family dwelling and single apartment on one
(1) water and/or gas meter
$2-9750
$29.99
(6)
Apartment house, travel trailer park, or
manufactured home park on one (1) water and/or
gas meter
$14.75
$14.95 per unit
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(7)
Apartment house, travel trailer park, or
manufactured home park --Each apartment, travel
trailer pad, or manufactured home site on
separate water and/or gas meter
$44.75
$1495 per unit
(8)
Additional charge for rear doori kup on an
type above
$11.86r unit
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(9)
Additional loads of heavy brush or bulky item at
time of scheduled heavy brush or bulky item
collection
$58.3 per load
(10)
Surcharge for bulky item pickup
$10.00 per item
(11)Special
non-scheduled heavy brush, clean wood,
waste, debris, or bulky items pickup, including
pickup of heavy brush and debris set out more
than two (2) weeks prior to the scheduled pickup
or brush or debris that is a traffic, safety, or
health hazard
Actual cost not to exceed
$200.00 per load
(12)Recycling
containers: Each solid waste services
customer account will pay a fee for recycling
containers that will be refunded upon termination
of the account and return of the recycling
containers
$60O per container
(13)
Surcharge for tires set out for collection
$.00 per tire
(d) A business and commercial institutions establishment and any other occupied
premises located within the City of Corpus Christi, except a residence covered by
subsections (a) and (b) of this section, shall be charged for collection services by the
department at a rate determined by the director based on the following:
(2) The director may not set a rate below
42g:5G) twenty -nine dollars and ninety cents ($29.90) a month (the minimum
rate), plus any applicable state disposal fees and state and city taxes.
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SECTION 2. Section 21-41, Code of Ordinances, is amended by revising the tables in
subsection (e)(2) and (3) to read as follows:
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Sec. 21-41. Charges --For disposal services.
(e) The following fee schedule applies to each lead of solid waste deposited at a
disposal site operated by the department:
(2) Commercial vehicles (tipping rate).
*Includes state disposal fee, state/federal mandated surcharges as provided by section
21-42.
(3) Special fees.
Solid waste by weight
$3444
$36.86 per ton*
Clean wood waste, heavy brush, or rubble
Loose load of solid waste, not weighed
$9.19
$9.99 per cubic yard*
suitable for recycling, including crushed concrete,
asphalt, bricks, etc.
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Compacted load of solid waste, not weighed
$42,1-5
$13.21 per cubic yard*
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Construction and demolition debris, not weighed
$13.21 per cubic yard
Heavy brush and yard waste, not weighed
$4245
$13.21 per cubic yard
Commercial vehicle transporting household waste
for a residential customer when accompanied by
the residential customer. (The residential
customer must be the driver or a passenger in the
commercial vehicle or arrive in a separate vehicle
at the landfill with the residential customer's
waste.)
No charge
*Includes state disposal fee, state/federal mandated surcharges as provided by section
21-42.
(3) Special fees.
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Clean, uncontaminated dirt that is suitable for
landfill use (as determined by landfill
superintendent or designee of the
superintendent)
No charge
Clean wood waste, heavy brush, or rubble
$8.80
suitable for recycling, including crushed concrete,
asphalt, bricks, etc.
$9.57 per ton
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Large household appliances, such as stores,
washing machines, clothes dryers, dishwashers,
refrigerators, or other similar items, except large
household appliances transported in a non-
ommer ial vehicle by a residential ustomer
who resides rithin the city
$.
�.� each
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Tires
Automobile
$ .2
Truck or Targe trailer tires '16--1 "
$2.25
Tractor tires 20'
$3.25
Larger than 2o"
blot accepted
Cut into quarters or more
Tipping fee rate
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eh ilesrith Toads not ado uately sou red so as
to prevent any of the contents of the transported
Toad from being ejected or dapped during
transport of the Toad
.
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; Use of scales
$25.25
Any solid waste that requires special preparation,
handling, or cover
As determined the
director
SECTION 3. Section 21-47(b), Code of Ordinances, is revised to read as follows:
Sec. 21-47. Municipal solid waste system service charge.
(b) The municipal solid waste system service charge for all waste collected is:
(1) For customers located within the city, who are billed by their permitted solid
waste hauler for hire by tonnage, the municipal solid waste system service
charge is .. - . . i - .. i +.a - - - . #" twenty-seven dollars
and thirty-five cents ($27.35) per ton of waste.
(2) For customers located within the city, who are billed by their permitted solid
waste hauler for hire by the volume of the dumpster and frequency of service, the
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municipal solid waste system service charge is ighty_ ($O
dollar and eleven cents ($1.1li per cubic yard of capacity each time the
customer's dumpster is serviced.
one
(3) For customers located within the city, who are billed by their permitted solid
waste hauler for hire by tonnage, if their permitted solid waste hauler for hire has
a put or pay contract with the city and disposes the customer's solid waste at a
disposal site operated by the department, the municipal solid waste system
service charge will be credited with e e_ _ * + - :: . ! fifteen
dollars and thirty-seven cents '.15.37 for the portions of the charge that are
collected through the hauler's acceptance fee. The municipal solid waste system
service charge, with the credit, is * eleven
dollars and ninety-eight cents ($11.98) per ton of waste.
(4) For customers located within the city, who are billed by their permitted solid
waste hauler for hire by the volume of the dumpster and frequency of service, if
their permitted solid waste hauler for hire has a put or pay contract with the city
and disposes the customer's solid waste at a disposal site operated by the
department, the municipal solid waste system service charge will be credited with
thirty-one cents ($O.31) thirty-nine cents ($O.39) for the portions of the charge
that are collected through the hauler's acceptance fee. The municipal solid
waste system service charge, with the credit, is seventy-two
cents (g1.72) per cubic yard of capacity each time the customer's dumpster is
serviced.
(5) For customers within the city, who are billed by the permitted solid waste
hauler for hire by tonnage, if their permitted solid waste hauler for hire pays the
tipping rate published in subsection 21-41 e t a., the municipal solid waste
system service charge will be credited with
Gent($19.23) twenty-two dollars and twen -seven cents ($22.27) for the
portions of the charge that are collected through the tipping fee. The municipal
solid waste system service charge, with the credit, is
($2.14) five dollars and eight cents ($5.08) per ton of waste. Except as
provided in subsection (d) of this section, if the hauler pays the tipping fee at the
time the hauler disposes of the solid waste, the municipal solid waste system
service charge must be paid at the time the hauler disposes of the solid waste at
the disposal site operated by the department.
For customers within the city, who are billed by the permitted solid waste
hauler for hire by the volume of the dumpster and frequency of service, if their
permitted solid waste hauler for hire pays the tipping rate published in subsection
21-41 e 2 a., the municipal solid waste system service charge will be credited
with seventy -eight -Gents -4077-8) ninety cents $0,9 for the portions of the
charge that are collected through the tipping fee. The municipal solid waste
system service charge, with the credit, is nine -Gents -($42609) twenty, -one cents
($O.21($0.211 per cubic yard of capacity each time the customer's dumpster is serviced.
Except as provided in subsection (d) of this section, if the hauler pays the tipping
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fee at the time the hauler disposes; of the solid waste, the municipal solid waste
system service charge must be paid at the time the hauler disposes of the solid
waste at the disposal site operated by the department.
(7) For can account customers within the city the municipal solid waste system
service charge is ' - ; e_ ; - . �. _— - :. _.: seven dollars and
nineteen cents ($7.19) per collection by the permitted solid waste hauler for hire
(which includes the city street use fee).
(8) For residential customers serviced by the department, the municipal solid
waste system service charge is . A. - " # - " three
d liars_ nd forty-two dents ($3.42) per month (which includes the city street use
fee).
For business and commercial customers serviced by the department, the
municipal solid waste system service charge is
($2;67) four dollars and seventeen cents ($4.17) per month (which includes the
city street use fee).
SECTION 4. A violation of this ordinance or requirements implemented under this
ordinance constitutes an offense punishable under Section 21-3 of the City Code of
Ordinances.
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 of this ordinance be given full force and effect for its purpose.
SECTION 6. This ordinance takes effect and applies to all services provided on and after
the first day of August, 2007, which is either billed at the time the services are provided or
billed in a utility reading cycle, such cycle to include only service provided on and after the
first day in August, 2007.
SECTION 7. Publication shall be made in the official publication of the City of Corpus
Christi as required by the City Charter of the City of Corpus Christi.
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That the foregoing ordin nce was read for tfirst time and passed to its second
reading on this the
Henry Garrett
Melody Cooper
Larry Eli ondo, Sr.
Mike Hummel!
Bill Kelly
day of
(114,01,P
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Ifrp
2007, by the following vote:
Priscilla G. Leal
John E. Marez
Nelda Martinez
Michael All Cut hon
dlict}
iVkawe
That the foregoing o��ce was read fo th second time and passed to its final
2007 b h
following reading on this the _ ay n y t e o owing �
reading on this the - ay of y owing vote:
Henry Garrett
Melody Cooper
Larry Elizondo, Sr.
Mike Hummel]
Bill Kelly
PASSED AND APPROVED this the
ATTEST:
4.
Armando Chapa
City Secretary
APPROVED E as to form: July 12, 2007
Eliza * th R. Huridly
Assi . nt City Attorney
for the City Attorney
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Priscilla G. Leal
John E. Marez
Nelda Martinez
Michael McCutchon
day of
N�
Henry Garr
Mayor
027 '5 4
2007.
EFFECTIVE GATE
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PUBLISHER'S AFFIDAVIT
State of Texas 1 CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI
County of Nueces 1 Ad # 5806006
PO #
Before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public, this day personally came CRI
HURTADO, who being first duly sworn, according to law, says that she is
LEGAL SALES REPRESENTITIVE AND EMPLOYEE OF THE PUBLISHER
namely, the Corpus Christi Caller -Times, a daily newspaper published at
Corpus Christi in said City and State, generally circulated in Aransas, Bee,
Brooks, Duval, Jim Hogg, Jim. Wells, Karnes, Kenedy, Kleberg, Live Oak,
Nueces, Refugio, San Patricia Victoria and Webb Counties, and that the
publication of, NOTICE OF PASSAGE OF ORDINANCE NO. 027354
which the annexed is a true copy, was inserted in the Corpus Christi
Caller -Times on 7/30/2007 .
108.39
1(s)
On this 3t S.Jr day o At___
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is a true and an exact copy . de by publisher.
LEGAL SALES REPRESENTIVE
2001 certify that the attached document
Not
Public, State ofTexas
July 30, 2007 • Monday
NOTICE OF
PASSAGE OF
ORDINANCE N.
027354
Amending the Code of
Ordinances, City of
Corpus Christi, Chap-
ter 21, Garbage, Trash
and other Refuse, re-
garding increases to
resource recovery
fees; providing for
penalties; providing for
an effective date; and
providingfor publica-
tion. This ordnance
was passed and ap-
proved by the iCity
Council of the City of
Corpus Christi on its
second reading on
July 24,2007. This or-
dinance is effective
August 1, 2007. •
/s/ Arrr ando Chapa
City Secretary
City of Corpus Christi