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Home My WebLink About1966✓ Y THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWN OF BOWMANVILLE BY -LAW NO. 1966 A By -law to establish and maintain a system for the collection, removal and disposal of ashes, garbage and other refuse. WHEREAS Council is authorized under the provisions of Section 379 (1), Paragraphs 75 and 77 of the Municipal Act, R.S.O. 1960, Chapter 249, to pass by -laws for establishing and maintaining a system for the collection, removal and disposal of ashes, garbage and other refuse and for imposing a special rate to defray the expense of such collection, removal and disposal. NOW THEREFORE the Council of the Corporation of the Town of Bowmanville ENACTS AS FOLLOWS: 1. In this By -law: (a) "Ashes" shall mean the remainder of combustible sub- stances after combustion. (b) "Commercial Building" shall mean any building used for any trade or business and without limiting the generality of the foregoing, shall include hotels, restaurants, nursing homes, stores, offices, office buildings, hospitals, schools, churches, meeting and /or lodge halls, the Lion's Centre, Legion building and Memorial Park Association Club House. (c) "Garbage" shall mean and include all animal and vege- table waste resulting from the preparation of food for human con- sumption. (d) "Non- collectable Waste" means and includes the following: 1) The ashes, garbage and waste products of any manu- facturing, canning, preserving or food processing plant or business 2) The trimmings and cuttings from trees, rs hrubs and vines_ 3) Celluloid cuttings, moving picture film, oil soaked ".> or gasoline soaked rags and any explosive or highly combustible material of any kind or nature whatsoever. - 2 - 4) Bricks, cement blocks, stone, broken plaster or other waste or residue resulting from any building construction, alteration, repair, demolition or removal. 5) Sawdust, shavings or excelsior. 6) Swill and other organic matter not properly drained and wrapped as provided in Section 9, Clause (e) thereof. 7) Liquid waste. 8) Bandages, poultices, dressing and other such like waste. 9) Hay, straw and manure. 10) Night soil. 11) The carcass of any dog, cat, fowl or other creature or part thereof, save kitchen waste from residential units. 12) Any material which was formerly part of a motor vehicle or trailer. 13) Any ashes, garbage or refuse which does not con- form with all the provisions of this By -law. (e) "Refuse" shall mean and include all waste material of every kind and description whatsoever, excepting non - collectable waste. (f) "Residence" shall mean any building in which people make their home and shall include an apartment house, dwelling, duplex, etc. (g) "Town Garbage Dump" means and includes the land in Lot #14 in the Second Concession of the Township of Darlington, now in the Town of Bowmanville and now used as a Town Garbage Dump and any other lands hereafter designated by Council as a Town Garbage Dump. 2. There is hereby established and there shall be maintained within the municipality a system for the collection, removal and disposal of ashes, garbage and other refuse. �r - 3 - 3. For the purpose aforesaid the Municipality shall, if necessary, acquire and maintain such vehicles, plant, equipment, lands, buildings and other things and shall provide an adequate number of men from time to time as may be required or it may, if Council so desires, enter into a contract with a person, firm or corporation for the collection, removal and disposal of ashes, garbage and other refuse. 4. Except as hereinafter limited, ashes, garbage and other refuse shall be collected from the rear of residences within the Municipality at least once each week and from commercial build- ings at least twice each week provided however, that if by reason of extraordinary weather conditions or any other emergency, the collection cannot be made as aforesaid, there shall be no liabilit- upon the Municipality or any of its offices or servants in respect of such failure to collect ashes, garbage or other refuse. 5. Ashes, garbage and other refuse collected as aforesaid shall be disposed of by transporting the same to the Town garbage dump. 6. The Town garbage dump shall be available to all persons residing or carrying on business in the Town of Bowmanville for the disposal of ashes, garbage and other refuse excepting non - collectable waste, and may be used by other persons upon such terms and conditions and upon payment of such consideration as the Council may from time to time deem expedient. 7. No unauthorized person shall set any fire on the Town garbage dump. 8. That the burning of garbage by any householder or other person on his property shall not be done unless an incinerator approved by the 1,11edical Officer is used and the Medical Officer may prohibit such burning of garbage in congested areas or where a nuisance arises from such burning. .AW' 4P - 4 - 9. All ashes, garbage and refuse placed out for collection shall conform with the following requirements or shall otherwise be deemed to be non - collectable waste: (a) All magazines, newspapers, cardboard cartons and other waste paper and paper products shall be securely tied in solid compact bundles not exceeding 75 pounds. (b) All ashes, garbage and refuse shall be in metal con- tainers, each of a capacity of not less the 72 gallons and not more than 20 gallons and shall be equipped with a handle or handles and such containers shall at all times be kept in a proper sanitary condition by the use of disinfectant. (c) All metal containers shall be kept in proper repair at all times and particularly shall the handles be firmly affixed to the containers so that it may be handled without difficulty.. (d) Ashes shall be in securely covered containers unmixed with garbage or other waste or with any liquid, provided that failure to cover a container of hard clinkers, crockery or other such material not liable to be blown about by the wind, shall not be deemed to be a breach of this provision. (e) Garbage shall be in securely covered containers un- mixed with any liquid and all meats, fish, fruit, vegetables and other waste liable to attract animals and verminal flies, shall be drained of liquid and securely wrapped and tied. (f) The weight of any container together with its contents shall not exceed 75 pounds. (g) The number of containers places for collection each week shall not exceed 6 for each dwelling unit. (h) All containers containing garbage, ashes. and refuse shall be placed out for collection after sunset of the day previous to the day fixed for collection and before seven o'clock in the forenoon of the day fixed for collection in a location conveniently accessible to the garbage collector, other than the travelled por- tion of any street, highway, sidewalk or foot path. - 5 - 10. No person shall pick over, interfere with, disturb, remove or scatter any ashes, garbage or refuse placep for collec- tion. 11. Employees of the Municipality may in the collection of ashes, garbage and other refuse enter the sheds, porches, garages or out buildings where such ashes, garbage or other refuse is located, but they shall not enter the buildings proper nor shall they ascend or descend any stairs in order to make any such collection. 12. The occupant of premises from which garbage and refuse is to be collected shall on the day when collection is to be made provide a clear pathway to the location of the refuse containers, which said pathway shall be sufficiently wide to permit the con- tainers to be carried conveniently to the street and shall be reasonably direct and unobstructed. 13. The annual rates for the collection, removal and dis- posal of garbage, ashes and other refuse from the different classes of buildings are as follows: (a) Residences - $12.00 (one pick -up each week) (b) Apartments (each) - $12.00 (one pick -up each week) (c) Commercial - $27.00 (one pick -up each week) (d) Commercial - $50.00 (two pick -ups each week) (e) Combined Residence/ - $27.00 (one pick -up each week) Commercial ((f) Food Markets - Dom.,- $50,00 (one pick -up each week) I.G.A. and A & P (g) Extra Pick -ups: Commercial - $6.00 per call Residential - $3.00 per call 14. The annual rates provided for in Section 13 will be placed as a special charge on the Collector's Roll and collected in a like manner as taxes are payable. IM iftw - 6 - 15. No collections as provided by this by -law will be made from the area north of the Canadian Pacific Railway on Chapel Street, the area referred to as the 'vilest Beach and farm residences. 16. The Council may by resolution permit owners of commercial buildings the right to disposal of their refuse and garbage at their own expense, but Council raserves the right to charge such owners for the use of the facilities of the Town Dump and the road leading to the dump. 17. A person convicted of the breach of any of the provisions of this By -law shall pay at the discretion of the Ylagistrate a penalty not exceeding twenty -five dollars ($25.00) for each offence exclusive of costs. 18. By -laws No. 1626, No. 1755 and all by -laws at variance to this by -law are hereby repealed. 19. This By -law shall be deemed to have been in effect from the first day of January, 1966. READ a first and second time this 29th day of March, 1966. Mayor Cleof k READ a third time and finally passed this 29th day of March, 1966. Clef k