Ord 2011-87CMSD ORDINANCE NO. 87
AN ORDINANCE OF THE COSTA MESA SANITARY
DISTRICT AMENDING CHAPTER 7.01 OF THE
OPERATIONS CODE PERTAINING TO TRASH REGULATIONS
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors has previously established regulations with
regard to standardized trash containers; and
WHEREAS, the District provides trash containers to residents receiving
residential solid waste collection services who have paid for said services; and
WHEREAS, some residents and other persons are depositing their solid waste in
those residents' trash containers instead of their own containers; and
WHEREAS, the Board desires to discourage this type of activity from residents
and others by adopting and enforcing local regulations; and
WHEREAS, the Board has the authority to adopt and enforce such regulations in
the community; and
WHEREAS, the Board believes it will be in the District's best interest to adopt an
ordinance that would make it illegal for any person to deposit solid waste in another
person's trash containers.
NOW, THEREFORE, the Board of Directors of the Costa Mesa Sanitary District
does hereby ORDAIN as follows:
Section 1. That Chapter 7.01 of the Costa Mesa Sanitary District Operations Code is
hereby amended by adding the following section to read as follows:
"07.01.090 Unauthorized use of containers. It shall be unlawful for any person to
deposit solid waste in a container owned or legally possessed by another person in any
place, public or private, without the written permission of the owner or legal possessor
of the container."
Section 2. Should any part, clause or section of this Ordinance be declared by any Court
of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the remaining provisions of this Ordinance shall
nevertheless be and remain in full force and effect and the Board of Directors of the Costa
Mesa Sanitary District of Orange County, California, hereby declares that each and every
section, clause, provision or part of this Ordinance would have been adopted and made a
part of this Ordinance without the adoption of any portion thereof and that the invalidity of
any part or provision hereof shall not in any way affect the validity or enforcement of the
remaining provisions of this Ordinance that may stand on their own.
Section 3. Pursuant to Health and Safety Code Sections 6490 and 6491.3, the District
Clerk shall cause this ordinance or a summary thereof to be published in a newspaper of
general circulation printed and published in the District according to law.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 3yy,day of 'YL,w„,� 2011.
Secretary
President
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS
CITY OF COSTA MESA )
I, JOAN REVAK, Clerk of the Costa Mesa Sanitary District, hereby certify that the above
and foregoing Ordinance No. 87 was duly and regularly passed and adopted by said Board of
Directors at a regular meeting thereof, held on the 30th day of November 2011 by the
following vote:
AYES: Robert Ooten, James Ferryman, Mike Scheafer, Jim Fitzpatrick, Art Perry
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTAIN:
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Costa
Mesa Sanitary District, this 30th day of November 2011.
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Clerk of a Costa Mesa,. Sa nitary District