0433 Garbage and Trash DisposalORDINANCE NO. 433
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF
• OKEECHOBEE; AMENDING CHAPTER TEN RELATING TO GARBAGE AND TRASH
PICKUP AND DISPOSAL; AMENDING ARTICLE III SECTION 10-28 PROVID-
ING FOR DELINQUENT PENALTIES, AMENDING SECTION 10-31 PROVIDING
FOR ONE TRASH PICKUP PER WEEK, ADDING A NEW SECTION 10-36 TO
PROVIDE PENALTIES FOR POOR SERVICE AND COMPLAINTS; PROVIDING
AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
OKEECHOBEE, FLORIDA AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION I: Chapter ten of the Code of ordinances be and it hereby is amended to
modify Section 10-28 to provide a ten (10) percent penalty for delinquent payments,
to modify Section 10-31 on residential collection fees to provide for once a week
trash pickup and adding Section 10-36 to provide penalties for poor service and
non-collection and the sections are hereby amended to read as follows:
CHAPTER 10
ARTICLE III: COLLECTION
SECTION 10-28: DELINQUENT PAYMENTS - PENALTIES
a) If any person is fifteen (15) days or more delinquent in paying garbage
and trash collection fees, there shall be assessed against such person a
penalty equal to ten (10) percent of the collection fee.
b) In addition, at any time any person shall be delinquent fifteen (15) days
or more in the payment of fees provided for garbage and trash collection,
the town shall not pickup the garbage or trash of such person until all
fees and penalties are paid in full.
SECTION 10-31: RESIDENTIAL COLLECTION FEES
There is hereby assessed against each owner, tenant, or occupant of
each dwelling house in the city a garbage and trash collection fee. The fee
is hereby set at five dollars ($5.00) per month and pays for garbage pickup con-
sisting of not more than four thirty gallon garbage cans once per week and such
containerized rubbish and trash which does not exceed forty pounds in weight nor
more than five cubic yards in auantitu.
SECTION 10-36: PENALTIES
The franchisee agrees that should as many as ten customers in any one
area not receive the scheduled and agreed upon collection during any day, the city
shall withhold from anu monies due the franchisee. not as a Denaltu but as liaui-
dated damages, the sum of fifty ($50.00) for each area where the contract is so
breached. Additionally, liquidated damaqes in the amount of five dollars ($5.00
for each and every complaint in excess of four complaints during any calendar
month will be withheld from monies due the contractor.
SECTION III: THIS ORDINANCE SHALL TAKE EFFECT AS PROVIDED BY LAW.
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Introduced aaad•paooed on first reading this 14th day of April
1981.
Mayor
ATTEST:
1 ,
City Clerk
introduced and passed on second and final reading this 28th day of
April ,1981.
Mayor`
ATTEST:
:i.ty Clerk
APPROV AS TO
Ci At orne