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INTRODUCTORY*
CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL
Introduced by: Councilmember Kraft
A BILL ENTITLED
AN ORDINANCE concerning
Title
Sanitation - Mixed Refuse Collections
FOR the purpose of modifying the rules for mixed refuse collections following a holiday; clarifying and correcting certain language; and generally relating to the collection of garbage and mixed refuse.
Body
BY repealing and reordaining, with amendments
Article 23 - Sanitation
Section(s) 2-4(c)
Baltimore City Code
(Edition 2000)
SECTION 1. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, That the Laws of Baltimore City read as follows:
Baltimore City Code
Article 23. Sanitation
Subtitle 2. Garbage and Mixed Refuse
ยง 2-4. Collections.
(c) Mixed refuse - quantity limits.
(1) It [shall be] IS the duty of the Director of Public Works to collect all mixed refuse from all dwelling houses, apartment houses, tenement houses, boarding houses, hotels, restaurants, hospitals, and other places where mixed refuse is accumulated, not exceeding the contents of 8 20-gallon containers per week for each [such] place, as [hereinafter] provided IN THIS SECTION.
(2) The mixed refuse contents of 4 20-gallon containers shall be collected from each [such] place on each of 2 different days during each week.
(3) If a regular collection day falls on a holiday and no collection is made on that day, [in that event] the mixed refuse contents of [8] 4 20-gallon containers shall be collected on the next [regular collection] BUSINESS day. [When] IF the next [regular collection] BUSINESS day falls in the following calendar week[, as herein defined,] OR ON THE NEXT REGULAR COLLECTION DAY, the aggregate quantity to be collected [in said following week shall be] IS the mixed refuse contents of 12 20-gallon containers, the 1st collection to be the contents of 8 containers and the 2nd collection to be the contents of 4 containers.
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, That the catchlines contained in this Ordinance are not law and may not be considered to have been enacted as a part of this or any prior Ordinance.
SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, That this Ordinance takes effect on the 30th day after the date it is enacted.
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