§ 17-32. Service charges for collection and disposal.  


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  • (a)

    In order to provide for the health and safety of the citizens of the parish, there is levied a service charge to defray the expenses of the collection and disposal of solid waste materials, and the fee is to be assessed and collected monthly as follows:

    (1)

    Class A (residential service). There shall be no charge for the collection and/or disposal of household solid waste materials and/or bulky wastes from places of residence containing one or two dwelling units, including single-family houses, duplex apartments, garage apartments, or mobile homes. There shall be no charge made for the disposal of construction and demolition wastes which are generated from private residences and are delivered to the disposal facilities by the owners or occupants thereof.

    (2)

    Class B (modified commercial service). There shall be no charge for the collection and/or disposal of household solid waste materials and/or bulky wastes from places of residence containing three or more dwelling units, such as apartment buildings and mobile home courts, except that, should the quantity of waste materials placed for collection exceed the capacity of three containers of 30 gallons' capacity each, the operator of such establishment shall provide one or more approved bulk containers of sufficient capacity to contain the materials, and such operator shall be charged for the bulk container at the applicable rate set forth in this article under (scheduled commercial service) and listed opposite the designation "container charge."

    (3)

    Class G (industrial wastes: disposal services only). It shall be the responsibility of the person generating the industrial waste to collect and transport such wastes and deliver them to the landfill facilities as designated and furnished by the parish. The material shall be weighed at the parish processing plant site prior to delivery and deposition at the landfill, and a charge shall be levied for such disposal service at the current rate per ton of waste material. The industrial solid wastes shall not include any organic putrescible material, and if any such material is discovered during or after the industrial solid wastes are unloaded, the weight of the entire payload of waste materials shall be charged at the current rate per ton.

(Code 1969, § 10-27)