§ 51.09. YARD WASTE; PICK-UPS AND REGULATIONS.  


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  • (A) Each owner or occupant of property served by the municipal refuse and garbage collection service will receive two pick-ups per month for yard waste and other yard debris and vegetative materials such as limbs, sticks and leaves.
    (`93 Code, § 6-104)
    (B) (1) Container requirements; pick-up.
    (a) Each owner and occupant of property within the town which is served by the town municipal refuse and garbage collection services shall be entitled to dispose of six bags of yard waste per pick-up, or in the alternative, two 32-gallon containers which have been clearly marked for yard waste. Each owner and occupant shall be entitled to dispose of 12 30-gallon bags per month or four 32-gallon containers per month, whichever the occupant shall elect.
    (b) The owner and occupant will provide their own paper receptacle and/or 32-gallon container receptacle for the pickup of yard waste.
    (c) Failure of the owner or occupant of the property to use paper bag receptacles or tied bundles of limbs and branches in the manner set forth above, or clearly mark their 32-gallon container, will result in the refusal of the municipal refuse and garbage collection service to pick up the bags, containers and/or branches and leaves.
    (2) Entitlement. Each owner and occupant of property served by the municipal refuse and garbage collection shall be entitled to have picked up two times per month 15 limbs no larger than three inches in diameter at the largest point. The limbs left for pickup shall be stacked with the largest portion of the limb facing the curb.
    (3) Paper receptacles. The owner and occupant will provide their own paper receptacles for the pick-up of yard waste.
    (4) Pick-ups. The pick-up of the yard waste and bundles of limbs, branches and the like, shall be made on the days the recycling pick-ups are made.
    (5) Failure of owner; receptacles. Failure of the owner or occupant of the property to use paper bag receptacles or tie bundles of limbs and branches in the manner set forth above will result in the refusal of the municipal refuse and garbage collection service to pick up the bags and/or branches and leaves. All paper bags must be closed in some fashion.
    (6) Waste mixed with garbage; prohibition. There shall be no yard waste, leaves, limbs or vegetative material allowed to be mixed with garbage. Failure to comply with this requirement shall result in the municipal refuse and garbage collection's refusal to pick up the garbage set out for collection.
    (`93 Code, § 6-105)
    (Ord. 95-619, passed 4-24-95; Am. Ord. 95-630, passed 8-28-95; Am. Ord. 99-718, passed 6- -99; Am. Ord. 2000-006, passed 5-8-00)