For the purposes of this chapter:
“City” means the city of Kalama or the service provider under contract with the city for garbage collections.
“Dead animals” mean all animals and fowl, large and small, which may die or be killed for other than food purposes.
“Garbage” means all solids and semisolid kitchen refuse subject to decay or putrefaction and all market waste of animal and vegetable matter which was intended as food.
“Offal” means waste animal matter from butchers, slaughter or packing houses.
“Person” means every person, firm, partnership, association, institution and corporation. The term also means the occupant and/or the owner of the premises for which services herein mentioned is rendered.
“Trash and refuse” means all waste matter not subject to decay or putrefaction which for the purposes of this chapter, includes ashes, sod, newspapers, magazines, paper cartons and paper signs. (Ord. 1078 § 1 (part), 2001: Ord. 463 § 2, 1962).

A. The maintenance of health and sanitation requires that collection, removal and proper disposal of solid waste within the city be compulsory and universal. Therefore, it is required of every person in possession, charge or control of any dwelling, flat, rooming house, apartment house, trailer camp, hospital, hotel, school, restaurant, boarding or eating house, or in possession, charge or control of any public or private place of business or manufacturing establishment, where garbage, refuse, trash or offal is or may be created or accumulated within the city limits, to keep or cause to be kept, portable cans of approved size, type of construction as herein provided; and to deposit or cause to be deposited such accumulation therein, except as hereinafter provided.
B. All refuse and garbage from businesses dispensing food and drink (including boardinghouses, hotels, auto courts, and motels), food stores, doctors’ and dentists’ offices, and private and public meeting places where banquets are held, including refuse from all rest rooms, shall be deposited in containers of the size and type specified in Section 7.08.030. (Ord. 1078 § 1 (part): Ord. 463 § 3, 1962).

All garbage, offal, trash, and/or refuse must be placed or kept by the occupant of the premises in the garbage containers provided by the city of not over ninety gallon capacity for single-family dwellings, as well as hotels, apartments, restaurants, and other business locations. No container should weigh more than seventy-five pounds when loaded and it is the responsibility of the occupant to keep containers closed during inclement weather. Any additional noncity-issued containers of garbage placed with the city provided containers will be picked up at an additional charge of four dollars per unit. (Ord. 1078 § 1 (part): Ord. 463 § 4, 1962).

A. Trash and refuse must be deposited in suitable, solid containers not in excess of thirty gallon capacity and when loaded, not weighing more than sixty pounds; provided, that brush or shrubbery trimmings may be tied in bundles not over five feet in length and not over eighteen inches in circumference.
B. Newspapers and magazines and paper signs may be placed in paper cartons, or tied in bundles in both directions around the circumference thereof, with either rope, wire or heavy cord, none of which shall be more than sixty pounds in weight. (Ord. 463 § 5, 1962).

All garbage cans, receptacles and trash, refuse, brush and shrubbery trimmings, shall be placed at locations as indicated by the city. Any person within the city who leaves garbage receptacles inaccessible for pickup, requiring the driver to move receptacle more than five feet shall pay an additional charge of one dollar per month to the city for deluxe service. This deluxe service may be requested and paid for by a customer physically unable to move the garbage receptacle to the pick up location. (Ord. 1078 § 1 (part): Ord. 463 § 6, 1962).

In the event that garbage, refuse, or trash receptacles do not comply with the provisions of this chapter as to size, weight or carrying distance, as provided in Sections 7.08.030 through 7.08.050, the city’s garbage collectors shall be under no obligation to remove said receptacles unless and until either:
A. The person owning said receptacle makes the same comply with the provisions of this chapter; or
B. A special pickup is arranged pursuant to Section 7.08.110.
C. All service charges shall apply during any period of noncompliance. (Ord. 1078 § 1 (part): Ord. 463 § 7, 1962).

It is unlawful for any person to bury or dump waste paper, boxes, leaves, trash, debris, grass, woods, and cuttings from trees, lawns, shrubs and gardens upon the street, alley, or public place in the city. (Ord. 1078 § 1 (part): Ord. 463 § 8, 1962).

A. It is unlawful for the occupant, owner, or agent of the owner of any premises in the city to permit thereon any rubbish, trash, tin cans, bones, rags, straw, manure, decaying vegetable or animal matter, stagnant water, liquid household waste, ashes, soot, poison oak or poison ivy, or any unclean, unsanitary or unhealthful substance or matter; provided, nothing herein contained shall prevent the temporary retention of waste matter in receptacles in a manner approved by this chapter.
B. It is unlawful for the occupant, owner, or agent of the owner of any premises in the city, to allow trash or refuse to accumulate in a city alley and/or city street abutting such premises. The council shall notify by letter or authorized form, any such person to cause such trash or refuse to be removed by such person or by the city’s garbage collector. If trash or refuse is not removed, the garbage collector shall cause the same to be removed and charge the person for removal at the special pickup rate established by Section 7.08.100. (Ord. 1078 § 1 (part): Ord. 463 § 9, 1963).

A. Eligibility. A low-income rate is available to qualified low-income individuals who occupy residential dwellings not federally subsidized and meet the conditions as specified in Kalama Municipal Code Section 12.18.
B. Character of Service. Service shall be offered to low-income residential customers within the city limits for fifty percent of the minimum bimonthly charge for a one-can pickup of garbage every other week. If garbage pickup is required weekly, then the discount will not be applicable even if otherwise qualified for low-income discount. (Ord. 1170 § 1, 2005: Ord. 1078 § 1 (part): Res. 179, 1980: Ord. 463 § 10, 1962).

A. The minimum solid waste service required by all residences in the city is one can, one time per week. The minimum solid waste service for business or commercial customers is a weekly service at a level commensurate with the amount of solid waste produced by the establishment as determined by the city. Rates for required regular service at all places of residence and business shall be fixed by a resolution of the council.
B. An occupant may request a temporary service interruption if the house is vacant of a minimum of two weeks and contact the city in advance of their departure. (Ord. 1078 § 1 (part): Ord. 463 § 11, 1962).

Any person may secure a special pickup of any of the items mentioned in this chapter by calling the city’s garbage collector and requesting such pickup and paying the fee as determined by the garbage collector, but in no event less than one dollar minimum. In the event of a disagreement upon the amount of fee to be charged therefor, the city council shall have the right to fix the amount which shall be charged and when so fixed by the council, the same shall be binding. (Ord. 1078 § 1 (part): Ord. 463 § 12, 1962).

A. All charges for services to be rendered herein shall be payable to the city clerk-treasurer, and if not paid on or before the due date of such bill, such charge shall be delinquent.
B. Upon failure to pay such charges and upon delinquency, the amount thereof shall become a lien against the property from which the garbage collection service shall have been rendered. Such lien shall be made effective by filing a notice thereof specifying the charges, the period covered by the charges, and giving a legal description of the premises at which the service was rendered. Such lien shall be filed with the same official and shall be foreclosed within the time and manner prescribed by law for filing and foreclosing liens for labor and material. Such lien shall be prior to any and all other liens and encumbrances filed subsequent to the filing of such lien, but shall be subject to all general taxes and local improvement assessments, whether levied prior or subsequent thereto. (Ord. 1078 § 1 (part): Ord. 463 § 13, 1962).

Any person committing an unlawful act or omission in violation of the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars for each such offense. Violation of this chapter shall not result in a term of imprisonment. (Ord. 1078 § 1 (part): Ord. 907 § 1, 1995).