(a) Commercial Establishments -Operation of storage, mercantile, industrial, business, hotels, motels, restaurants, and all premises dedicated to the business of trade.
(b) Dwelling Units - Buildings or structures forming single or multiple units with facilities to be used for living, sleeping, cooking, and eating.
(c) Person-Any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, or governmental body or agency.
(d) Garbage - Putrescible animal and vegetable waste resulting from the preparation of food including its handling, cooking and consumption.
(e) Rubbish – Non-putrescible wastes such as paper, tin cans, glass, fabrics, utensils, pliable cartons and boxes, sweeping dust and dirt, etc.
(f) Trash - Putrifiable and non-putrifiable wastes except body wastes including barrels, non-burnable discarded furniture, bedding, old automobile bodies, metal junk, rocks and ashes - all disposables that cannot be compacted in a trash truck
(Ord. 98, Sec. 1)
The city shall provide for the collection of all garbage and rubbish in the city. The owner or occupant of each residence and each commercial establishment shall be responsible for all such materials generated on the property. Disposition of all garbage, rubbish and trash must comply with this article.
(Ord. 98, Sec. 2)
All refuse shall be disposed of at a site approved by the governing body of Goessel, Kansas. If disposed of in Marion County, all refuse shall be disposed of at a site approved by Marion County. Burnibles such as tree limbs, brush, grass clippings, yard and garden waste may be transported to the city’s burn site.
(Ord. 179; Ord. 245)
Waste Connections shall make a minimum of at least once-a-week collection of refuse from all residential units in the City between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. Pickup shall be at the curb. Each residence shall be responsible for placing its acceptable container(s) at the curb prior to the designated pickup time.
(Ord. 179; Ord. 245)
A request for water service automatically constitutes a request for garbage and rubbish service. If a residence becomes vacant but the owner requests that water remains in service, trash service and billing of trash service will also continue unless a special request is made in writing to, and acted upon by the city council to discontinue trash service while water service continues.
(Ord. 98, Sec. 5)
(a) Waste Connections shall be the exclusive provider of trash collection and disposal services to the City and the City shall be responsible for enforcement of this exclusive right and all ordinances regulations governing the collection and disposal of all materials in the City. The City hereby grants to Waste Connections the right to utilize rights of way and easements for the purpose of allowing Waste Connections to collect solid waste and recyclables to place and remove receptacles. The right granted hereunder is applicable only where there is a maintained road, street or alleyway. The obligation to provide such services is applicable only where there is a maintained road, street or alleyway allowing lawful access to a receptacle placed out for collection. During the term of the Agreement, the City shall not contract with any other party for the same waste or recycling services to be provided under this Agreement.
(b) Waste Connections agrees to pick up miscellaneous items of a serviceable character, size and weight placed at the curb by customers, including but not limited to appliances that have been certified free of CFC’s and HCFC’s Refrigerants by a certified refrigeration technician. (Limit of 10 additional bags, or boxes, or bundles of trash/twigs placed at the curb).
(c) Waste connections shall supply the City with current maps and schedules of the collections and disposal routes. Waste Connections shall designate holidays that it will observe and shall specify how the collection schedule will be modified to insure the minimum pickups state above.
(d) Waste Connections will also provide free service to all Commercial/Business locations that are owned by the City.
(e) Waste Connections will also provide City of Goessel with compactor trucks and operators one (1) Saturday of the City-wide clean-up day 8:00 am to 12:00 am (noon), providing house-to-house, curbside collection for discarded materials. The cost for this service will be at no charge (with the exception that the City of Goessel pays disposal fees).
(Ord. 222; Ord. 245)
All fees and charges for refuse collection shall be added to the water bills in the city except for fees by commercial establishments with separate contracts. Utility payments shall be paid at the city building by mail, by dropping the payment into the drop box at the city building, or by paying directly to the city clerk during normal business hours.
(Ord. 186)
The base monthly charge starting on the Effective Date of this Agreement shall be as follows: Residential weekly trash rate per household shall be $11.30 using a 95-gallon cart and $10.80 per household using a 65-gallon cart. On January 1 of each New Year of the agreement the rates will go up $.30. On the last year 2018 the rates are: Residential weekly trash rates per household shall be $11.50 using a 95-gallon cart and $11.00 per household using a 65-gallon cart. Bulky item pick up-$15.00 for each item at the curb. Customer must call City hall a week in advance to schedule pick up. The city shall establish and collect a monthly service charge of a $1.00 (one dollar) to defray the cost and maintenance of the collection and disposition of solid waste within the city.
(Ord. 221; Ord. 245)
Delinquent bills shall be handled and collected pursuant to CGK 15-218 and -219. The 10% delinquency charge, applies not only to the water charge, but to the sewer charge, and the city is authorized to stop trash collection service at the time the water is shut off at which time the city or the city’s contractor shall collect the trash cart. The adult residents shall thereupon p ace the cart in a location accessible to the City and/or the City’s contractor so the cart may be removed from the residence; if the adult residents fail to place the cart in an accessible location with seven (7) days after a written notice requesting the same is personally delivered to them or posted on the premises by the city, said failure shall be temporary deprivation of property punishable according to the terms of CGK 11-101, Sec. 6.5, as the same may be from time to time amended. Trash fees left unpaid shall be assessed against the lot or parcel of and on the county’s tax rolls.
(Ord. 179)
(a) It is unlawful for any person to throw or place in any manner or to allow to accumulate, leave or cause to be placed in any manner in a parking area, sidewalk, gutter, street, alley, park or any public grounds or city owned property any refuse previously defined, including abandoned automobile bodies, tires, junk, filth, dirt or litter of any kind. However, written requests to the city council may be made to temporarily encumber streets or alleys with building materials or earth during construct on, remodel ng or repairing a building or structure. In such case, all materials must be removed within 10 days of completion of the work leaving streets and alleys in the condition they were prior to the construction.
(b) Every person, including the owners and/or occupants of any property in the city shall maintain the premise in a clean and sanitary manner free of accumulations of trash, filth, dirt or litter of any kind.
(c) It is unlawful to upset, remove or carry away any trash container belonging to another.
(d) Any dead animal must be removed from within the city limits within 12 hours, whether the animal was owned by the resident or was under their control or on their premises. Such a carcass may not be deposited on the property of another or on the streets, alleys or public places.
(e) It is unlawful to transport trash on the streets of the city unless the load is securely fastened and contained to prevent scattering along streets and alleys. If trash does fall from a load, the transporter is required by law to pick it up and remove it immediately.
(Ord. 98, Sec. 9)