Ordinance No. 6,776930923 -3
ORDINANCE NO. 6776
• AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ARTICLE IV, "FINANCIAL
ADMINISTRATION," SECTION 14 -16, "CHARGE FOR COLLECTION,"
OF CHAPTER 14, "GARBAGE, TRASH AND BRUSH," OF THE CODE OF
ORDINANCES TO PROVIDE FOR AN INCREASE IN 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,
section 1: That Article IV, "Financial Administration,"
Section 14 -16, "Charge for Collection," of Chapter 14, "Garbage,
Trash and Brush," of the Code of Ordinances, City of Baytown,
Texas, is hereby amended to read as follows:
ARTICLE IV. FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION
Sec. 14 -16. Charge for collection.
1.) Each occupied residential unit within the city
limits shall be charged the sum of Eleven Dollars and
Eighty -two cents ($11.82), plus applicable sales tax,
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.
2.) 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 as long the
unit remains unoccupied.
3.) 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 Nine Dollars and Six cents ($9.06)
plus applicable sales tax.
4.) In the case of multifamily dwelling unit projects
containing eight occupied dwelling units or less, the
monthly charge for collection of refuse shall be the sum
of Eleven Dollars and Eighty -two cents ($11.82), plus
applicable sales tax, times the number of occupied units
in the project.
5.) Multifamily
• dwelling units
multifamily unit
provided.
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units which exceed eight (8) occupied
will be considered a commercial
and no city collection will be
Section 3: All ordinances or parts of ordinances
onsistent with the terms of this ordinance are hereby
Baled; provided however, that such repeal shall be only to the
ant of such inconsistency and in all other respects this
inane shall be cumulative of other ordinances regulating and
erning the subject matter covered by this ordinance.
Section 4: 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 5: The provisions of this ordinance shall become
effective beginning with the first billing for the month of
October, 1993.
INTRODUCED, READ and PASSED by the affirmative vote of the
City Council of the City of Baytown, this the 23rd day of
September, 1993.
PETE C. AL FARO, Mayor
ATTEST:
LYNDA KFLGORE, Deputy ity Clerk
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