Baltimore City Council
File #: 07-0583    Version: 0 Name: Sanitation - Mixed Refuse Collections
Type: Ordinance Status: Failed - End of Term
File created: 2/12/2007 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 12/5/2007
Enactment #:
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.
Sponsors: James B. Kraft, President Young, Helen L. Holton, Edward Reisinger, Mary Pat Clarke, Kenneth Harris, Belinda Conaway, Agnes Welch
Attachments: 1. 07-0583 - 1st Reader.pdf
EXPLANATION: CAPITALS indicate matter added to existing law.
[Brackets] indicate matter deleted from existing law.

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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 content...

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