§ 9-24. Fees established—Sanitation.

The schedule of rates for sanitation (garbage and trash) supplies within the corporate limits of the city shall be as follows:

(a)

There shall be collected from each residence owner, or each occupant of residential property, each tenant, and each mobile home occupant within the city a sanitation fee of fourteen dollars and sixty-one cents ($14.61) per month for each such residential unit. If resident has more than one (1) container, rate shall be regular price for first container and one-half (½) price for each additional container (i.e., twenty-one dollars and ninety-two cents ($21.92) per month for two (2) containers).

(b)

There is hereby fixed, established, and imposed upon each commercial business, factory, store, shop, restaurant, hotel and/or motel within the city a monthly sanitary fee in accordance with the following schedule: ;$;

Roll-out carts\$29.32 ;\$;

Dumpster Size	Number Pickups Weekly
(yards)	2	3	5
4	$91.31	$133.33	$217.38
6	133.33	196.37	359.21
8	175.36	264.66	432.76
Recycling dumpster	73.50	147.00	220.50

 

Each cart and/or dumpster [customer] will be required to pay a deposit to the city. The deposit will be equal to two (2) months service. For example, the deposit for a four-yard dumpster with two (2) weekly pickups would be one hundred eighty-two dollars and sixty-two cents ($182.62) ($91.31 × 2).

(c)

The superintendent of the sanitation department shall investigate and make a determination as to the correctness of the classification of any business which disputes its classification under the classifications stated above and to set the rate for a classification that has unique specifications outside the norm; i.e., certain manufacturers and businesses where service must be patterned to conform to their usage, and to give his findings to the sanitation committee outside the norm, i.e. certain manufacturers and businesses where service must be patterned to conform to their usage, and to give his findings to the sanitation committee for a decision which will be controlling and final, unless the disputed classification is brought before the mayor and council for further consideration.

(d)

Each residential recipient of a roll-out cart, except for apartment project tenants and mobile home occupants, shall pay a nonrefundable new service fee of seventy-five dollars ($75.00). Residents who require more than one (1) cart must also pay an additional seventy-five dollars ($75.00) for each additional cart.

(e)

Each mobile home park owner or apartment project owner or manager shall pay a deposit to the city in the sum of fifty dollars ($50.00) per each roll-out cart used by each mobile home or apartment resident whose mobile home or apartment is situated within said mobile home park or apartment project. This deposit shall be refundable pursuant to the terms outlined in subsection (d) above.

(f)

There shall be a two and one-half (2.5) per cent increase in sanitation rates on the first billing cycle of each fiscal year (July 1).

(Ord. No. 76-5, §§ 1, 2, 6-24-75; Ord. No. 85-4, 8-8-85; Ord. No. 86-12, 6-12-86; Ord. No. 86-18, 9-15-86; Ord. No. 88-6, 6-9-88; Ord. No. 89-7, 5-25-89; Ord. No. 89-18, 9-28-89; Ord. No. 90-4, 6-14-90; Ord. No. 92-14, 10-22-92; Ord. No. 94-6, 8-11-94; Ord. No. 95-04, 3-23-95; Ord. No. 95-07, 5-25-95; Ord. No. 96-08, 6-17-96; Ord. No. 97-1, 1-9-97; Ord. No. 00-08, 7-13-00; Ord. No. 02-09, 11-14-02; Ord. No. 04-03, 2-12-04; Ord. No. 06-29, 9-28-06; Ord. No. 09-24, 12-17-09)

State law reference

Duty of municipality to impose cost reimbursement fees and surcharges for solid waste, O.C.G.A. § 12-8-39.