2024-31 Ordinance Amending City Code Chapter 56 Refuse and Recyclables Removal

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ORDINANCE NO. � ORDINANCE AMENDING CITY CODE -CHAPTER 56- -REFUSE AND RECYCLABLES REMOVAL— BE IT ORDAINED, BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DECATUR, ILLINOIS: Section 1. That Chapter 56 of the City Code of the City of Decatur, Illinois, be, and the same is hereby modified and amended by amending Sections 2, 14, 39 and Appendix A so that Sections 2, 14, 39 and Appendix A as so modified and amended, shall provide as follows: 2. DEFINITIONS. As used in this Chapter, unless context otherwise requires, the following words or phrases shall mean: Basic removal service (Single Family, Dgplex and Triplex): Once weekly removal of refuse and once weekly removal of recyclables, with limited large item pick- up as further described herein, and removal and disposal of yard waste as further described herein. Additional landscape waste removal options shall be approved by the City Manager under the Promulgated Rules. Customers may use any waste hauler for extra collection of landscape waste, beyond the services offered under "Basic Removal Service". Basic removal service (Fourplex, Fiveplex and Sixplex): Twice weekly removal of refuse and once weekly removal of recyclables with one annual large item pick up, and removal and disposal of yard waste as further described herein. Additional landscape waste removal options shall be approved by the City Manager under the Promulgated Rules. Customers may use any waste hauler for extra collection of landscape waste, beyond the services offered under"Basic Removal Service".... ...Overage Charge: Means an amount charged to garbage and recycling service recipients to compensate for the expense incurred by the hauler from overages, and to provide a financial incentive to garbage and recycling service recipients to subscribe to the level of service corresponding to their normal trash, yard waste, and recycling needs, such that all materials fit within the container. The assessment of overage charges will require the hauler to provide dated photographic evidence of overages.... ...14. YARD WASTE GENERALLY,AND GRASS CLIPPINGS. (a) Landscape waste, other than limbs, branches and wood, shall be placed in approved containers within three feet of the curb. Such approved containers may be so placed no earlier than 24 hours before the established removal time. (b) Yard waste, limbs, grass, and branches will be collected weekly at curbside from March 1 to December 15 every year as a part of"Basic Service," and once a month in January and February every year, also as a part of"Basic Service."...