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AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE ACCUMULATION, REMOVAL
AND DISPOSAL OF GARBAGE AND GARDEN TRASH IN RESIDENTIAL
AND BUSINESS ZONES AND AREAS WITHIN THE LIMITS OF THE
CITY OF ATLANTIC BEACH, FLORIDA, LYING EASTERLY OF
THE MAYPORT ROAD (EXCEPT THE DONNER SUBDIVISION) ;
PROVIDING FOR FEES FOR REMOVAL AND DISPOSAL OF
GRABAGE AND GARDEN TRASH BY THE CITY OF ATLANTIC
BEACH, FLORIDA: PRESCRIBING LICENSE FEES AND
CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH REMOVAL AND DISPOSAL WILL
BE MADE BY PERSONS OTHER THAN EMPLOYEES OF THE CITY:
AND PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION HEREOF.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY OF ATLANTIC
BEACH, DUVAL COUNTY, FLORIDA:
Section 1 (a) Garbage: That for the purpose of
this Ordinance, the word "ghr bage" is hereby defined to mean every
refuse accumulated from cooking, cleaning and housekeeping.
(b) Garden Trash: That for the purpose
of this Ordinance, the words "Garden Trash" shall mean all the
refuse accumulated from the care of lawns, shrubbery, vines and
tree limbs.
(c) Garbage Can: That for the purpose
of this Ordinance, the words "garbage can" shall mean a can of
the type commonly sold as a garbage can, in good condition and
covered with a tight fitting lid.
(d) City: That for the purpose of this
Ordinance, the word "City" shall mean the area lying within the
limits of the City of Atlantic Beach, Florida, lying easterly of
the Mayport Road except that area known as Donner Replat or Sub-
division.
(e) "Residence A Unit". A "Residence A
Unit" is a residence occupied by and the place of abode of a single
family where one kitchen only is provided and maintained.
(f) "Residence B 'Unit". A "Residence B
Unit" shall consist of duplex residences under a single roof, or
apartments consisting of two or more units under a single roof, or
a primary and secondary dwelling on the same lot.
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(g) "Commercial A Unit": A "Commercial A
.Unit" is any business establishment, store, house or shop other
than a grocery, food store or bar. Within this classification are,
by way of example, amusement houses, drug and sundry stores, dry
goods and hard goods stores, package houses, filling stations and
offices.
(h) "Commercial B Unit A "Commercial B
Unit" is any food processing plant, light manufacturing plant, bar,
or any restaurant seating less than twenty-five persons; or small
food or grocery store.
(i) "Commercial C Unit": A "Commercial C
Unit" is any restaurant seating over twenty-five but less than one
hundred persons, any drive-in restaurant, or any large grocery or
super market.
(j ) "Commercial C-1 Unit": A `Commerical
C-1 Unit" is any restaurant seating one hundred or more persons.
(k) "Commercial D Unit": A "Commercial D
Unit" is any building with a business establishment and apartments,
or living units und6r the same roof, or on the same lot.
(1) "Commercial E Unit": A "Commercial. E
Unit" shall be any tourist court or trailer park.
(m) "Commercial F Unit": A "Commercial F
Unit" shall be any hotel.
Section 2: (a) All residents or occupants of residences,
apartments, or places of business within the City of Atlantic Beach
are hereby required to provide a garbage can, or cans, as herein-
before defined, of sufficient capacity to hold two days accumulation
of garbage.
(b) Garbage cans set out for garbage col-
lection shall not be placed closer than twenty (20) feet to the
street from which garbage service is rendered, nor farther back than
the building line. Garbage can blinds, which are in architectual
harmony with the building, or underground containers may be placed
anywhere between the building and the street from which garbage
service is rendered, bud in no case shall they be located on public
property. Any residence or commercial unit to which this section
creates a hardship to either the resident of the .property or the
City Garbage Department for placement of containers for garbage
service, shall apply to the building inspector who shall thereupon
determine the location at which garbage cans shall be placed.
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Garbage cans not in underground containers or blinds shall not be
left in front yard over night. Garbage cans located other than
hereinabove described shall not be emptied. In cases where lots
run from street to street the provisions applicable to front yard
shall also apply to rear yard.
(c) All garbage and trash cans shall be subject
to inspection and approval or condemnation by the Inspectors of
the Garbage Department of the City of Atlantic Beach, and no appeal
from such condemnation shall be possible except to the City Commiss-
ion.
(d) All garbage cans and trash containers shall
be required to be emptied at least once each day, except Sundays and
the contents thereof to be disposed of at least once each day,
except Sunday in residential districts and as designated by the City
Manager in the business districts . No garbage shall be buried upon
the premises of the person by whom such garbage is accumulated; and
no garbage shall be buried elsewhere in the City except upon written
permit of the City Manager. In all cases in which garbage is removed
and disposed of by persons other than the employees of the Garbage
Department of the City, the owner of occupant of the premises from
which such removal is made shall previously secure written permit
from the City Manager, showing the name and address of the person
or persons, corporation, partnership or agency by wh:Lch such removal
is to be made, the nature of the vehicle in which it is to be trans-
proted, the location at which and the manner in which the ultimate
disposition of the garbage is to be accomplished; and no person, cor-
poration, partnership or agency shall contract or permit himself to
be employed for such private disposition of garbage unless he shall
have first procured a license or permit therefor, from the City of
Atlantic Beach, as provided herein.
(e) It shall be unlawful, and subject to the
penalties provided in this Ordinance, to deposit garbage, trash,
bottles, cans or containers upon any vacant or unoccupied premises
of the City of Atlantic Beach, or upon any street, ally or park, or
to transport garbage through or over the streets or alleys of the
City of Atlantic Beach without having made a report of such transpor-
tation of garbage to the City Manager and secured a license or permit
t erefor, as herein elsewhere provided.
Section. 3: (a) No person or persons, corporation, partner-
ship or agency of any nature whatsoever shall remove garbage or trash
from any premises in the City of Atlantic Beach or transport garbage
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or trash through the streets or alleys or public ways of the City
of Atlantic Beach, or dump, incinerate, or in any other manner
dispose of garbage or trash originating in the limits of the City,
or contract for or permit himself to be employed or engaged for any
such removal, transportation or disposal without first having secured
a license for such services from the City Treasurer of the City,
evidencing the payment to the City of $25 per year. Before issuing
such license, the City Treasurer shall require the execution of an
application from, to be furnished by him, showing the names of the
principal officers and the name of the person or persons who are to
actually perform such services for the corporation, together with the
business and home addresses of each of such persons; the description
of the equipment to be used in such removal, transportation and dis-
posal; the exact location of and the method of disposal, which
application shall be submitted to and approved by the Commission as
a prerequisite to the issuance of the license. When such application
specifies a point of disposal beyond the limits of the City, the City
Manager shall determine that the disposal of garbage at the point
named, and by the method described in the application are satisfactory
to the proper authorities of Duval County or of the municipality, if
such point be within a municipality. No licensee under this section
shall change any of the personnel names in such application, nor any
of the equipment used for removal or transportation, nor the location
or method of disposal, as descirbed in such application without first
having reported such changes to the City Manager and secured his ap-
proval and permission therefor, and in the cases of changes in the
location and method of disposal, if beyond the limits of the City, such
changes shall also be approved by the proper authorities of Duval
County or of the municapality within which such disposal point is
located.
(b) The City hereby reserves the right to reject
any such application without the necessity for showing cause of such
action proviced such contractor undertakes to perform work not in
the best interests of the City.
Section 40 (a) All residents, occupants, owners of premises
in the City who have not arranged for private disposal of garbage and
trash as elsewhere authorized in this Ordinance shall be required to
have accumulation of garbage and trash removed and disposed of by the
Garbage Department of the City, and for such service of garbage and
trash removal shall pay the Treasurer of the City the sums shown
below for each service;
1. "Residence A Unit", For each Residence A Unit
the fee for the collection of garbage and trash is hereby fixed and
levied at the sum of $4. 50 quarterly.
2. "Residence B Unit", For each Residence B Unit
the fee, for the collection of Garbage and trash is hereby fixed
and levied at the sum of $4.50 quarterly for the first living
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unit, plus the sum of $2.50 quarterly for each and every living
'unit in excess of the one unit for which said $4.50 fee, is levied.
3. "Commercial A Unit", For each Commercial
A Unit the fee,, for the collection of garbage and trash is hereby
fixed and levied at the sum of $4.50 quarterly.
4. "Commercial B Unit", For each Commercial
B Unit the fee, for the collection of garbage and trash is hereby
fixed and levied at the sum of $6.00 quarterly.
5. "Commercial C Unit", For each Commercial
C Unit the fee, for the collection of garbage and trash is hereby
fixed and levied at the sum of $18.00 quarterly.
6. "Commercial C-1 Unit", For each - s _
Commercial C-1 Unit the fee, for the collection of garbage or trash
is hereby fixed and levied at the sum of $36.00 per quarter.
7. "Commercial D Unit", For each Commercial
D Unit the fee, for the collection of garbage and trash is hereby
fixed and levied at the sum as herein above shown for such business
unit plus the sum of $2.50 quarterly for each and every living unit.
8. "Commercial E Unit", For each Commercial
E Unit the fee, for the collection of garbage and trash is hereby
fixed and levied at the sum of $4.50 quarterly for the first unit
with kitchen facilities, $2.00 quarterly for each additional unit
with kitchen facilities and $.50 quarterly for each unit without
kitchen facilities.
9. "Commercial F Unit", For each Commercial
F Unit the fee, for the collection of garbage and trash is hereby
fixed and levied at the sum of $36.00 quarterly.
(b) Every such garbage collection fee shall
be computed for a three month period beginning July 1, 1960 and shall
be payable in advance for each and every three month period there-
after. Every such fee shall be due and payable on July 1st, October
1st, January 1st and April 1st of each year and shall become de-
linquent if not paid within thirty days thereafter.
(c) In Residential or Commercial districts
wherever there exists exceptional conditions of occupancy or use,
the Commission is hereby authorized to enter into the agreement with
the owner, lessee, renter or tenant as to the proper charges to be
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paid by such persons, firms, corporations or governmental agencies,
except that all such agreements shall provide that such charges
shall be made in a uniform manner and proportional to the other
charges for similar service as set forth in this ordinance.
(d) The garbage collection fees levied by
this Ordinance shall become delinquent if not paid within 30 days
after the same become due and payable and, in the event of any
such delinquency, the said City shall discontinue its garbage col-
lection services to any property or unit, the owner, lessee, permitter,
or agent in charge of which has allowed any such fee imposed here-
under to become delinquent, and the said City may recover the amount
of any such delinquent fee by due process of law.
(e) Trash and debris caused from the
operation of lot cleaning or clearing and contractor 's debris
caused from building, rebuilding or otherwise altering of buildings
or structures must be removed by the owner or contractor performing
such work. Spent oils or greases accumulated at garages, filling
stations or similar establishments will not be removed by the City.
Section 5: (a) It shall be unlawful, and subject to
the penalties provided in this ordinance, for any such resident or
occupant to deposit garden trash upon any adjoining lot or premises,
whether vacant or improved, occupied or unoccupied or upon any other
lot or premises, or a street, plaza, alley, or park, or in any canal
or waterway, lake or pool within the City. Garden trash containing
no combustible matter or matter which will, during decay, give off
offensive odors, may be accumulated by the owner as a mulch or
compost pile in the rear of the premises upon which accumulated.
(b) Any place of abode or any place of
business occupied and/or in operation shall be prima facie evidence
that garbage is being produced and accumulated on such premises, and
it shall be the duty of the proper representatives of the City to
inspect and supervise said premises and remove therefrom any and all
refuse and/or garbage found thereon, provided the required fees have
been paid by such resident or occupant, or notify the proper persons
if such removal is not the duty of the City.
Section 6. Any person, firm or corporation located
within the corporate limits of the City of Atlantic Beach, Florida,
but outside the heretofore described area defined in the Ordinance
as "City", may on request and upon payment of the same fees set forth
in this ordinance avail themselves of the services of the garbage
department.
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Section 7 . That any person, firm or corporation or
other association of persons, whether incorporated, for profit or
not for profit, and any member, officer or agent of such a firm,
corporation or association, found guilty of a violation of any of
the provisions of this ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor
and upon conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of
not more than $25.00 Dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding 30
days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of
the Municipal Judge and each day any such violation of the previsions
of this ordinance takes place shall constitute a separate fine and/
or imprisonment.
Section 8. All ordinances and parts of ordinances
in conflict herewith shall be and the same are hereby repealed.
Section 9. In the event any section, subsection,
sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance shall be adjudicated
invalid or unconstitutional such shall in no manner affect the
other sections, subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases of this
ordinance which shall be and remain in full force and effect as
fully as if the section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase so
adjudged invalid or unconstitutional was not originally a part
thereof.
Section 10. This ordinance shall become effective
June 30, 1960.
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Passed by the City Commission on first reading3 1960.
Passed by the City Commission on second and final reading
7zt , 1960.
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Attest:
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City Clerk /
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