84-26-Ordinance-Amending Refuse Collection Regulations-12/17/1984
CITY OF SANGER, TEXAS
ORIGINAL
ORDINANCE NO 84-26
A N ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 6, SECTION Q OF THE
CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF SANGER, TEXAS ENTITLED
REFUSE COLLECTION REGULATIONS TO PROVIDE FOR AN INCREASE
IN COLLECTION FEES; PROVIDE FOR REPEAL OF ORDINANCES IN
CONFLICT; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; PROVIDING FOR
AN EFFECTIVE DATE; AND PROVIDING FOR A PENALTY FOR
VIOLATION,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANGER, TEXAS:
SECTION I
THAT CHAPTER 6, SECTION Q OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY
OF SANGER, TEXAS, IS HEREBY AMENDED TO ADD SECTION Q ENTITLED
REFUSE COLLECTION REGULATIONS TO PROVIDE FOR AN INCREASE IN
COLLECTION FEES WHICH SHALL READ AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION Q: COLLECTION FEES
L. RESIDENTIAL PREMISES
The charge for collecting refuse from residential premises
snail be six dollars and fifty cents 06.50) per month.
2. COMMERCIAL PREMISES
The charge for collecting refuse from commercial premises
shall be based on the frequency of collection and the
quantity of refuse. The following scales shall be charged:
a. Commercial Premises Using 1-5 Cans
The charge for commercial premises using cans shall
be as follows:
2 pick-ups per week----------------$ 9.00
5 pick-ups per week---------------- 22.50
b. Commercial Premises Using Containers
The charge for commercial premises using containers
shall be in accordance with an agreement negotiated
with a commercial contractor.
NOTE: The following types of commercial premises shall be
required to maintain no less than five (5) pick-ups
per week: grocery stores, drug stores, meat packing
plants, restaurants, and all other businesses whose
refuse contain discarded foods, chemicals, or
medicines.
SECTION II
All Ordinances or parts of Ordinances in conflict herewith
are, to the extent of such conflict, hereby repealed.
SECTION III
It is hereby declared to be the intention of the City Council
that the sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses, and
phrases of this Ordinance are severable and, if any phrase,
clause, sentence, paragraph, or section of this Ordinance
shall be declared unconstitutional by the valid judgment
or decree of any court of competent jurisdiction, such un-
constitutionality shall not affect any of the remaining
phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs, and sections of
this Ordinance, since the same would have been enacted by
the City Council without the incorporation in this Ordinance
of any such unconstitutional phrase, clause, sentence,
paragraph, or section.
SECTION IV
Whenever in this Ordinance an act is prohibited or is made
or declared to be unlawful or an offense or a misdemeanor,
or wherever in such Ordinance, the doing of an act is
required or the failure to do any act is declared to be un-
lawful, the violation of any such provision shall be punished
by a fine of not exceeding Two Hundred ($200.00) Dollars;
provided, however, that no penalty shall be greater or
less than the penalty provided for the same or similar offense
under the laws of the State. Each day any violation of this
Ordinance shall continue shall constitute a separate offense.
SECTION V
This Ordinance will take effect immediately from and after
its passage and the publication of the caption as the law
in such cases provides.
PASSED AND APPROVED this /f day of ` 1984,
by the City Council of the City of Sanger, Texas.
ATTEST:
APPROVED:
y
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