§ 8-3-12 — PERMIT REQUIRED FOR REFUSE SERVICE; EXEMPTIONS

8-3-12: - PERMIT REQUIRED FOR REFUSE SERVICE; EXEMPTIONS

(A) Except as otherwise provided in this Section, no person shall engage in, operate as, or represent himself to the public as one who collects, transports, disposes, or recycles residential, commercial, or industrial refuse generated within the City unless that person has obtained a valid permit pursuant to the provisions of this Article. (2374, 2761) (B) Any community, charitable, philanthropic, or similar organization may collect, transport, dispose of, or recycle residential, commercial, or industrial refuse without a permit upon approval of the Development Services Manager provided that no part of the earnings or receipts from such activities inure to the benefit of any private shareholder, individual, or corporation and provided that the organization was not established to circumvent the requirements of this Article. (2374, 2761, 3766, 3813) (C) Governmental agencies engaged in the collection, transportation, disposal, or recycling of residential, commercial, or industrial refuse within the City shall be exempt from the provisions of this Article. If, however, a private refuse collector that has a contract with a governmental entity also collects private commercial or industrial refuse or recycles residential, commercial, or industrial refuse within the City limits, such private commercial enterprise is required to make application for a permit to operate within the City limits and to comply with all other provisions of this Article. (2374, 2761) (D) This Section shall not be construed to prevent individual property owners from hauling their own refuse from their own premises to a legal point of disposal or recycling. (2374, 2761) (E) All persons who primarily collect and dispose of or recycle scrap metal, scrap plastic, waste motor oil, human excreta, animal excreta or remains, yard wastes, medical wastes, infectious wastes, hazardous wastes, toxic wastes, residual construction debris, or any other similar category of solid waste that either requires a special state, county, or federal permit to handle or constitutes a limited category of waste that the private hauler specializes in collecting shall be exempt from the permit provisions of this Article. (2374, 2761)