11-22-13-Ordinance-Waste from Tree and Shrub Trimming Brush Pickup-11/04/2013ORDINANCE# 11-22-13
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SANGER, TEXAS, CHAPTER 6 "HEALTH
AND SANITATION", ARTICLE 6.500, SECTION 6.513 WASTE FROM TREE AND
SHRUB TRIMMING; IN THE CITY OF SANGER CODE OF ORDINANCES IS
HEREBY AMENDED; PROVIDING FOR THE REPEAL OF ALL ORDINANCES IN
CONFLICT; PROVIDING FOR A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; PROVIDING FOR A
PENALTY; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANGER, TEXAS:
Section 1. That Chapter 6, Article 6.500 of the Code of Ordinances, City of Sanger,
Texas, is hereby amended by amending Section 6.513, (a) to read as follows:
Section 6.513 Waste From Tree and Shrub Trimming
(a) Customers currently paying for garbage pickup service are entitled to free tree and brush
pickup with the following limitations. This service is intended for the removal of normal
pruning and disposal of downed limbs. This service is not intended for the disposal of trees
and brush removed for construction. If a professional contractor is hired, all limbs and brush
shall be disposed of by the contractor. Only two orders per month will be processed per
address. Large volumes of material will be charged an additional fee. The limitations are:
1. Limbs and brush must be cut in manageable lengths and placed by the
roadside. Do not place limbs and brush in the street. Limbs shall be placed
with the cut section toward the street. Limbs over one inch in diameter must
be cut from the main branch. No limbs over eight inches in diameter can be
chipped.
2. Only limbs and brush from the property owners own property will be picked
up. Limbs on trailers will not be picked up.
3. Stumps must be cut in sections weighing less than fifty pounds and placed by
the roadside.
4. Crews are only allowed thirty minutes per job. If the job exceeds thirty
minutes, the customer will be notified and arrangements made to finish the job
at a later date. Cost of removal after thirty minutes will be thirty dollars
($30.00) for the next thirty minutes and fifteen dollars ($15.00) for each
succeeding fifteen minutes.
5. Vines, leaves, garden plants, small bushes and grass shall be bagged and placed for
pickup with your household trash.
6. Special arrangements must be made to pick up limbs over eight inches in diameter
and stumps and roots over fifty pounds. The charge for picking up these items
shall be a minimum of seventy-five dollars ($75.00) for the first thirty minutes and
seventy-five dollars ($75.00) for each following thirty minute interval.
Section 2. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are, to the extent
of such conflict, hereby repealed.
Section 3. It is hereby declared to be the intention of the City Council that the
sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses, phrases and words of this Ordinance are severable
and, if any word, 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 unconstitutionality shall not affect any of the remaining portions of this
Ordinance, since the same would have been enacted by the City Council without the
incorporation in this Ordinance of any such unconstitutional word, phrase, clause, sentence,
paragraph, or section.
Section 4. Any person, firm, or corporation who shall violate any of the provisions of
this article shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined in an amount
not to exceed the sum of five hundred dollars ($500.00) for each offense, and each and every
day such offense shall continue shall be deemed to constitute a separate offense.
Section 5. This ordinance will take effect immediately from and after its passage and
the publication of the caption, as the law and Charter in such cases provide.
DULY PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of
Sanger, Texas, on the _'441 day of November 2013.
.,APPROVED:
Thomas Muir, Mayor
ATTEST:
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Tami Taber, City Secretary