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Ord 1956-02i ORDINANCE NO. 2 AN ORDINANCE OF THE COSTA MESA SANITARY DISTRICT OF ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, REGULATING RUBBISH-CONTAINERS. The Board of Directors of the Costa Mesa Sanitary District, Orange County, California, do hereby ordain as follows: SECTION.1. PROHIBITED CONTAINERS: No person shall use any of the following containers for rubbish to be collected by the Costa Mesa Sanitary District: (a) Capacity - exceeding forty (40) gallons, except commercial establishments. (b) Weight - Containers and contents exceed- ing fifty (50) pounds. (c) Size and Shape - containers having any diameter greater than the top inside dia- meter. (d) Material - containers made of paper, card- board and any other material which is not weather resistant to the extent that any part of the container tends to disintegrate rapidly, and which is not solid. (e) Surfaces - Any containers which are not relatively smooth, both inside and out- side, or which contains nails, wires, or other material which projects out from the surfaces. (f) Non - Containers any wheelbarrow, wagon or other receptacle which does not come within the definition of a container as hereinafter defined. SECTION 2. CONTAINERS DEFINED: A container to be used for rubbish is hereby defined to mean a receptacle having a solid bottom with four solid sides or solid circu- lar side and which conforms to the requirements set forth in Section l hereunder. SECTION 3. APPROVED CONTAINERS: The Board of Directors of the Costa Mesa Sanitary District does hereby approve any trash container or receptacle which has a forty (40) gallon capacity, with a sixty -four (64) inch top circum- ference tapering to a smaller bottom circumference, is rust proof, weather proof, light weight and of durable construc- tion. SECTION 4. LOAD LIMIT: Rubbish to be placed for collection at any one collection time shall not exceed two hundred (200) pounds. SECTION 5. PLACEMENT OF CONTAINERS: The rubbish containers shall be placed where the same is ordinarily acces- sible to be collected and arranged in a manner so as to facilitate the loading on the collection truck. Except ( (2) w where practical difficulties exist, all rubbish containers shall be placed on the alley or street right of way. SECTION 6. ASHES AND SWEEPINGS: All ashes or sweepings shall be adequately wrapped before being placed in the rubbish container. SECTION 7. EXCEPTION: (a) Tree trimmings, shrubs and similar items need not be placed in containers but must be trimmed not to exceed four (4) feet in length and must be securely tied. (b) Newspapers, magazines and similar items need not be placed in containers but must be securely tied and shall not exceed fifty (50) pounds in weight. Rubbish consisting of cardboard boxes and other boxes contain- ing debris need not be placed in containers. SECTION 8. RUBBISH DEFINED: The word "rubbish shall include leaves, shrub trimmings, small tree branches not to exceed two (2) inches in diameter and four (4)' feet in length, excelsior, wooden ware, printed matter, paper, pastboard, paper containers, lawn clippings, rags, straw, discarded clothing, crockery, bottles, tin cans, metal vessels, and all waste material of every character accumulated within the District except garbage or tree or shrub trimmings occasioned by the maintenance or construc- tion of public utility lines or the activities of City crews. (3) SECTION 9. PENALTIES: Any person, firm or corporation who uses or permits to be used any con- tainer or receptacle for trash to be collected by the Costa Mesa Sanitary District which violates any of the provisions of this Ordinance, shall not be entitled to have rubbish pick -up service by the Costa Mesa Sanitary District. Failure to comply with the provisions of this Ordinance shall constitute grounds for the termination of rubbish collection service until such time as such said person, firm or corporation shall have satisfied the said Costa Mesa Sanitary District that it is ready and willing to comply with the provisions of this Ordinance. SECTION 10. MISDEMEANOR: Every person, form or corporation, its principal, agent or otherwise, who violates or fails to comply with any of the provisions of this Ordinance, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, pun- ishable by a fine n-ot to exceed One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) or by imprisonment not to exceed thirty (30) days in the City or County jail, or by both such fine and imprison- ment, and such persons, firm or corporation shall be guilty of a separate offense for each day during any por- tion of which a violation or refusal to comply with any of the provisions of this Ordinance is permitted. SECTION 11. SEVERANCE CLAUSE: Should any part, clause or section of this Ordinance be declared by any (4) Court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the remaining provisions of this Ordinance shall never- theless 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. SECTION 12. ENACTMENT CLAUSE. The Secretary of said District shall certify to the passage of this Ordinance and shall cause the same to be published once in the Costa Mesa Globe Herald, a newspaper of general circulation printed, published, and circulated in the Costa Mesa Sanitary District of Costa Mesa, Orange.County, California, and seven (7) days from and after its publication it shall take effect and be in full force. PRESIDENT, Board of Directors Costa Mesa Sanitary District ATTEST: A. H. HOLLISTER Secretary of the Costa Mesa Sanitary District of Costa Mesa, 1 California (5) . _. ( STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) ss. COUNTY OF ORANGE ) I, A. H. HOLLISTER, Secretary of the Costa Mesa Sanitary District of Costa Mesa, Orange County, Cali- fornia, do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance was introduced at a regular meeting of the Costa Mesa Sanitary District Board of Directors held on January 5, 1956, and was finally passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the Costa Mesa Sanitary District of Costa Mesa, California, on January 5, 1956, by the following vote, to wit: AYES: Directors - Meyers, Porter, Hollister, Norman NOES: Directors - None ABSENT: Directors - Nelson (6) A. H. HOLLISTER Secretary of the Costa Mesa Sanitary District Costa Mesa, California