Subject: 9820/Code/18-123,-124/Landfill Fees & Wood Chips
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1989 12:20:00 -0500


                                ORDINANCE NO. 9820
                  
                  
                   AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND CHATTANOOGA CITY CODE,
                   PART II, SECTION 18-123, RELATIVE TO
                   LANDFILL FEES, AND TO ADD A NEW SECTION
                   18-124, RELATIVE TO WOOD CHIPS.
                  
                  
                                                    
                  
                  
       	    	 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
       CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE:
       	    	 SECTION 1.  That Chattanooga City Code, Part II, Article
       VII, Section 18-123, as amended, be and the same is hereby 
further
       amended by deleting therefrom subparagraphs (a) through (i), and
       substituting in lieu thereof new subparagraphs (a) through (h) as 

       follows:
            	 (a)  Residents of the city delivering refuse in
            automobiles, station wagons, standard size pick-up
            trucks and small trailers shall be charged no fee for
            dumping.
           
            	 (b)  Non-residents of the city delivering refuse in
            automobiles, station wagons, standard size pick-up
            trucks and small trailers shall be charged ten dollars
            ($10.00) per load for dumping.
           
            	 (c)  All private collectors, municipalities,
            government agencies, contractors or others depositing
            waste shall be charged at the rate of twenty-two dollars
            ($22.00) per ton for dumping, with a minimum of
            seventeen and 60/100 dollars ($17.60) per load.
           
            	 (d)  In addition to the fees specified hereinabove,
            there shall be a surcharge of one hundred dollars
            ($100.00) per load of waste for the disposal of
            materials requiring special handling by landfill
            personnel and equipment, including those specified in
0C
            section 18-104 and those materials for which special
            handling is required by the Tennessee Department of
            Environment and Conservation, or other regulating
            agencies.  There shall be a surcharge of two hundred
            dollars ($200.00) per load of waste for the disposal of
            asbestos.
           
            	 (e)  Any person depositing industrial waste which
            may be hazardous or which is of questionable origin or
            composition, requiring monitoring through laboratory
            analysis in the discretion of the landfill operator,
            shall pay an additional forty dollars ($40.00) per load
            administrative fee plus the cost of laboratory analysis
            together with any other expenses directly related to
            handling the particular load of waste.
           
            	 (f)  All brush and wood waste that is disposed of
            at the wood recycling facility shall be charged at the
            rate of ten dollars ($10.00) per ton, with a minimum of
            five dollars ($5.00) per load.  Provided that city
            residents disposing of such waste from their own
            property shall not be charged for a pick-up load of such
            wastes.
           
            	 (g)  In addition to the other landfill fees
            provided hereinabove, there shall be imposed a surcharge
            of one dollar ($1.00) per ton for each ton of municipal
            solid waste received at the landfill.
           
            	 (h)  Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs
            (c) and (f) above, governmental agencies or private
            non-profit corporations funded by governmental agencies
            for the purpose of providing safe and sanitary housing
            for residents of Chattanooga or for the removal of
            dangerous or blighted structures including, but not
            limited to, the Chattanooga Housing Authority, the
            Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprises, Inc. and the
            Better Housing Commission, shall not be charged for the
            disposal of demolition waste.
           
       	    	 SECTION 2.  That Chattanooga City Code, Part II, Article
       VII, be amended so as to add a new Section 18-124 as follows:
            Sec. 18-124.  Wood Chips.
           
            	 Wood chips will be available for purchase by the
            public at the wood recycling facility at the rate of two
            dollars ($2.00) per yard during regular operating hours
            and subject to availability and reasonable operating
            restrictions that may be established by the
            Administrator of the Department of Public Works.
           
       	    	 SECTION 3.  That this ordinance shall be effective two
       (2) weeks from and after its passage as provided by law.
      
       PASSED on Third and Final
       Reading January 5, 1993.	     
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       	    	      	   	     	         CHAIRPERSON
      
       	    	      	   	     APPROVED:______ DISAPPROVED: _______
      
       	    	      	   	     DATE:________________ _______, 1992.
      
      
       	    	      	   	     s/s_________________________________
       MAM:cjc	      	   	     	       	    MAYOR