Ordinance No. 5,349890914 -6
Published In: THE BAYTOWN SUN
Tuesday, September 19, 1989
Wednesday, September 20, 1989
ORDINANCE NO. 5349
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 14 -16 OF CHAPTER 14,
"GARBAGE, TRASH AND BRUSH," OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES TO
INCREASE COLLECTION RATES; PROVIDING A REPEALING CLAUSE;
CONTAINING A SAVINGS CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING FOR THE
EFFECTIVE DATE THEREOF.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN,
TEXAS:
Section 1: That Section 14 -16 of Chapter 14, "Garbage,
Trash and Brush," of the Code of Ordinances, City of Baytown,
Texas, is hereby amended to read as follows:
Sec. 14 -16. Charge for collection.
Each occupied residential unit which receives city
utilities shall be charged the sum of ten dollars and
fifty cents ($10.50) 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. Also, when the 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 seven dollars and
seventy -five cents ($7.75). In the case of multifamily
dwelling unit projects, the monthly charge for
collection of refuse shall be the sum of ten dollars
and fifty cents ($10.50) times the number of occupied
units in the project. Multifamily units which exceed
eight (8) units will 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repealed; provided however, that such repeal shall be only to the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 regulating and
governing the subject matter covered by this ordinance.
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Section 3: if any provisions, 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 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
October, 1989, which shall be at least ten (10) days after its
passage by the City Council. The City Clerk is hereby directed
to give notice hereof by causing the caption of this ordinance tc
be published in the official newspaper of the City of Baytown at
least twice within ten (10) days after passage of this ordinance.
INTRODUCED, READ and PASSED by the affirmative vote of the
City Council of the City of Baytown, this the 14th day of
September, 1989.
METT 0. HUTTO, Mayor
ATTEST:
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EILEEN P. HALL, City Clerk
ANDALL B. STRONG, Ci Attorney
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