Ordinance No. 3,714PUBLISHED IN: The Ba taro Sun 31110 -1
Monday Nov. , 1983
Tueaday, Nov- 15, 1983
ORDINANCE NO. 3714
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 14, MARI3ACE, TRAyFf, AND
BRUSH`, OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF
BAYTOWN REQUIRING THE CHARGE FOR COLLECTION FOR ALL
RESIDENTIAL UNITS; PROVIDING A REPEALING CLAUSE;
CONTAINING A SAVMS CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING FOR THE
FLIBLICATICN AND EFFECTIVE DATE HEREOF.
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• BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL. OF THE CITY OF BAyM NN1,
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Section l: That Chapter 14, "Garbage, Trash, and Brush," of the Code of
Ordinances of the City of Baytown tp hereby amended by the repeal of Section
14 -16, Charge for Collection, as presently constituted and by the adoption of a new
Section 14 -16 that shall read as follows:
Sec. 14 -16. Charge for collection.
Each occupied residential unit which receives City utilities shall
be charged the sum of $8.00 per month for City refuse collection
services. This charge is based on the availability of City removal and
disposal services, and shall be collected regardless of whether or not
the occupant of a residential unit places any refuse out for collection.
When the owner of an unoccupied residential unit certifies in writing to
the utility collections office that the unit is unoccupied, the monthly
charge from that time forward shall not be assessed for howsoever long
the unit remains unoccupied. Aiso, when Zhe head of the household of
a residential unit certifies in writing to the utility collections office
that he /she is over sixty -five (65) years of age and that he /she will
place no more than one (1) thirty-gallon can or one (1) thirty - gallon
plastic bag of refuse at his/her residential unit for collection on each
regularly scheduled collection day, the monthly charge will be the sum
of five dollars and twenty -five cents ($5.25). In the case of multifamily
dwelling unit projects, the monthly charge for collection of refuse shall
be the awn of eight dollars ($6.00) times the number of occupied units
in the project. Multifamily units which exceeo eight (e) units will be
considered commercial and no City collection service will be provided.
Section 2: All ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent with the terms
of this ordinance are hereby repealed, provided however, that such repeal shall be
only` to the extent of such inconsistency and in all other respects this ordinance
shall be cumulative of other ordinances r gulating and governing the subject matte,
covrred by this ordinance.
Section 3: If any provision, section, exception, subsection, paragraph,
sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance or the application of same to any
person or set of circumstances, shall for any reason be held unconstitutional, void or
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invalid, such invalidity shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of
this ordinance or their application to other persons or sets of circumstances and to
this end all provisions of this ordinance are declared to be severable.
Section 4: The provisions of this Ordinance shall become effective beginning
with the first billing for the month of November, 1983. This ordinance shall take
effect from end after ten (10) days from its passage by the City COuMil. The City
Clerk is hereby directed to give notice hereof by causing the caption of this
ordinance to be published in the official newspaper of the City of Baytown at least
twice within ten (10) days after the passage of this ordinance.
INTRODUCED, READ, and PASSED by the affirmative vote of the City
Council of the City of Baytown, this the 18th day of November, 1983.
ATTESTs
P. PUNUL, City Clerk
APPROVEM
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