§ 10-4. Residential waste.

(a)

The quantities of garbage, rubbish, trash, white goods, and recyclable material which a service premises consisting of a single family residence may place for collection by the city shall be subject to the following maximum limits:

(1)

Five (5) thirty-two-gallon waste receptacles of garbage and rubbish with a maximum weight limit of forty (40) pounds for once a week pickup;

(2)

Two (2) sixty-five-gallon or ninety-five-gallon waste carts of garbage and rubbish for once a week pickup.

(3)

Two (2) cubic yards of uncontainerized garden trash with no item over forty (40) pounds or a length greater than four (4) feet, for each once a week pickup. Such waste shall be neatly stacked in an area accessible for collection with no overhead obstructions, not placed on top of storm drains, and/or adjacent to or on top of fire hydrants, mail boxes, electrical transformers or communication risers (pedestals);

(4)

Any quantity of garden trash capable of being placed into a container shall be placed in containers with substantial strength enough to support and hold the weight of the waste, whether by use of cardboard boxes, plastic bags or thirty- two-gallon trash cans, with a maximum weight limit of forty (40) pounds;

(5)

Privately employed tree trimmers, tree surgeons, landscape contractors, lawn maintenance service providers and operators of tree and shrubbery maintenance services and other like services who receive a fee shall remove all trash and debris from the premises on which they are working, including but not limited to, limbs, tree trunks, roots, shrubbery, grass clippings, bulky yard and vegetative wastes and other debris resulting from their work and dispose of it in the proper manner. No lawn trash or grass clippings shall be left on the paved street abutting the property or on adjacent property. Bulky yard or vegetative waste shall not be placed in carts or bulk refuse containers.

(6)

Two (2) items of white goods for each once a week pickup, provided that no more than ten (10) such items shall be collected in a calendar year; and

(7)

Two (2) recycling containers holding recyclable material for each once a week pickup.

(8)

Two (2) cubic yards of residential construction debris, if generated by the home occupant with a valid building permit if such a permit is required, is to be collected from each residential unit once per week. (Construction debris generated by a contractor shall not be collected by the city and the contractor shall be responsible for disposal regardless of whether the waste is residential or commercial.)

(b)

The owner or owners of a residential service premises consisting of two (2) to five (5) dwelling units shall be allowed to place for collection the maximum quantities provided in subsection (a) for each dwelling unit.

(c)

The owner or owners of a service premises consisting of a condominium having six (6) or more dwelling units, or of an apartment building having six (6) or more dwelling units, shall be allowed to place for collection the maximum quantities provided in subsection (a) for each dwelling unit provided such condominium or apartment building is eligible to receive service under subsection (d). It shall be the responsibility of the owner or unit owners association of every such condominium or apartment building to give written notice to the city by June 1 of each year whether it does or does not desire the city to furnish waste collection and disposal service from October 1 to September 30 of the following year.

(d)

A condominium having six (6) or more dwelling units, or an apartment building having six (6) or more dwelling units, shall be eligible to receive solid waste collection and disposal service by the city provided that:

(1)

Such condominium or apartment building is assessed the annual special assessment imposed by the City of St. Augustine Beach in accordance with article II of this chapter and applicable city ordinances in respect to the time period service is to be provided by the city; or

(2)

The owner or unit owners association of such condominium or apartment building pays quarterly in advance of collection to the city the waste disposal service charge as determined by the city manager based on the then current special assessment levied by the City of St. Augustine Beach on a dwelling unit multiplied by the number of dwelling units in such condominium or apartment building. The charge shall be prorated for the time from commencement of service until the disposal cost is paid by the special assessment; or

(3)

The owner or unit owners association of such condominium or apartment building pays quarterly in advance of collection to the city and the waste disposal service charge as determined by the city manager based on treating such condominium or apartment building as a commercial service premises and paying a service charge in accordance with section 10-13.

(4)

The options provided in paragraphs (2) and (3) of this subsection (d) shall terminate when disposal costs can be paid by the annual special assessment imposed by the City of St. Augustine Beach in accordance with article II of this chapter and applicable city ordinances.

(e)

This section does not prohibit an owner from placing for collection garbage, rubbish, trash, white goods, and recyclable material in excess of the maximum quantities provided under subsection (a) when the city has previously agreed with the owner to collect such excess quantities.

(f)

The city will not collect residential waste contained in a garbage dumpster from any service premises.

(Ord. No. 15-09, § I, 12-7-15)