Removal and Disposal of Garbage, Ashes and Other Refuse Bylaw No. 16/81
Yorkton, Saskatchewan
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CITY OF YORKTON
BYLAW NO. 16-1981
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CITY 0F YORKTON
SASKATCHEWAN
BYLAW NO. 16-1981
A BYLAW OF THE CITY OF YORKTON TO PROVIDE FOR THE REMOVAL AND
DISPOSAL OF GARBAGE, ASHES AND OTHER REFUSE.
The Municipal Council of the City of Yorkton enacts as follows:
1.
In this Bylaw the following definitions shall apply:
(1)
"Dwelling" shall mean any building or place in the City occupied or used as a place
of abode or place of living by not more than two families, but shall not mean or
include any apartment house as hereinafter defined.
(2)
"Householder" shall mean any person occupying any dwelling, habitation, or place
of residence in the city, but shall not include any person who is merely a boarder,
roomer, or Lodger therein or the occupant of any apartment house.
(3)
"Apartment House" shall mean a building in the city which is, or is intended to be
occupied as a habitation or place of residence by three (3) or more families living
independently of one another upon the same premises; and shall also include a
hotel, tenement house, lodging house, rooming house, boarding house, terrace of
houses, row of cabins, or more than two suites on one legal residential site, even
though they are in separate buildings, and any habitation or place of residence
where three (3) or more families live, abide or dwell. Notwithstanding anything
contained in the above, "Apartment House" shall also include any room or suite of
rooms in any building containing any trade premises irrespective of the number of
families living, abiding or dwelling therein.
(4)
"Trade Premises" shall mean any restaurant, cafe, warehouse, store, wholesale or
retail place of business, office block or building within the city, other than a
dwelling or apartment house.
(5)
"Ashes" shall mean the residue of any fuel after the same has been consumed by
fire at or in any dwelling, apartment house or trade premises.
(6)
"Garbage" shall mean the refuse or waste material, including containers from any
matter for human consumption or consumption by household pets, originating from
or discarded from any dwelling, apartment house or trade premises.
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which includes
Bylaw No. 32/1981
(7)
"Household Waste" shall mean general rubbish or accumulation of waste or
discarded materials, or things of any kind of nature, other than garbage or ashes,
originating from any dwelling or apartment house.
(8)
"Trade Wastes" shall mean refuse and accumulation of waste and abandoned
materials resulting from the operation of a trade or business upon any trade
premises, including paper, boxes and packing cases, wrapping material, sweepings,
and all inflammable materials of a like nature other than garbage and ashes.
(9)
"Owner of an Apartment House" shall mean and include the agent of such owner.
2.
The Director of Public Services is hereby designated as the official responsible for the
control and supervision of the provisions of this Bylaw, except in cases where the said provisions
relate to untidy and unsightly premises.
3.
No person shall dispose of garbage, ashes, household wastes or trade wastes within the
City of Yorkton, except in accordance with the provisions of this Bylaw.
4.
(1)
Every householder shall at all times provide and maintain upon his premises, in
good and sufficient repair, one or more water-tight galvanized iron garbage
receptacles or approved equivalent. All garbage originating from such premises
shall be deposited in such receptacles.
(2)
Each receptacle shall be equipped with handles and a tight fitting cover, and shall
be of a circular design not larger than 30 inches in height and 18 inches in
diameter. Refuse shall be placed in all receptacles in such a manner that, when
inverted, the contents of any container will fall out.
(3)
Garbage may be placed in plastic bags, securely tied, but not necessarily placed in
an approved receptacle.
5.
(1)
The owner of every apartment house shall at all times provide and maintain in good
and sufficient repair for the use of the occupants thereof, such number of water-
tight galvanized iron receptacles or approved equivalent as, in the discretion of the
Director of Public Services (which shall be final), are necessary to provide storage
for the garbage originating from such apartment house over any given period of
seven (7) days.
(2)
Each such receptacle shall be equipped with handles and a tight fitting cover, and
shall be of a circular design not larger than 30 inches in height and 18 inches in
diameter. Refuse shall be placed in all receptacles in such a manner that, when
inverted, the contents of any container will fall out.
(3)
The owner of every apartment house shall deposit or cause to be deposited in such
receptacles, all garbage originating therefrom, save such as may be immediately
burned upon the premises.
Receptacles
City
providing
receptacles
(4)
Garbage may be placed in plastic bags, securely tied, but not necessarily placed in
an approved receptacle.
6.
(1)
Every person who occupies any trade premises shall at all times provide and
maintain thereon in good repair, such water-tight galvanized iron receptacles or
approved equivalent as the Director of Public Services may, in his discretion
(which shall be final), deem necessary to provide storage for garbage originating
from such premises over any given period of seven (7) days.
(2)
Each such receptacle shall be equipped with a tight fitting cover and shall be of a
design, size and construction approved by the Director of Public Services. The
Director of Public Services may require that such receptacles be equipped with
locks, or a locking type device.
(3)
The occupant of every trade premises shall deposit or cause to be deposited in such
receptacles all garbage originating therefrom.
(4)
Garbage may be placed in plastic bags, securely tied, but not necessarily placed in
an approved receptacle.
7.
Every person required by this Bylaw to provide a garbage receptacle shall at all times,
except when the same is being emptied by the Collector, or when garbage is being placed therein,
keep the cover thereof tightly closed.
8.
(1)
In any case where the owner of premises contravenes the provisions of this Bylaw
by failing co provide and maintain a proper receptacle for the storage of garbage
originating therefrom, or a sufficient number of such receptacles where more than
one is required hereunder, the Director of Public Services may provide the same
for such premises at the expense of such owner.
(2)
Where any charge rendered to the owner of premises for the supply of a receptacle
or receptacles for garbage remains unpaid for ninety (90) days following the date
on which it was first rendered, the City Treasurer shall certify the same to the City
Assessor who shall direct the charge to be entered upon the tax roll as a lien and
charge against the said premises, to be levied and collected in like manner as
municipal rates and taxes are by law recoverable.
(3)
The Assessor shall forthwith, after adding the said charge to the Tax Roll, cause
particulars thereof to be sent by registered mail to the assessed owner of the said
promises.
(4)
Nothing in this section contained shall be deemed to relieve such owner from
liability for any penalty provided for in this Bylaw for failure to provide and
maintain such receptacle or receptacles.
Location
of
receptacles
Disposal
of ashes
Disposal
of other
materials
Disposal
of garbage
and
inflammable
material
Collection
of wastes
9.
Subject to the provisions of Section 10 hereof, of all garbage receptacles shall be kept at
the rear or side of the premises and not more than six feet from the lane, so that the garbage
collectors may have ready access thereto. In no case shall any receptacle be placed nearer than ten
feet to any street, nor shall it encroach on any lane more than two feet, nor shall it impede traffic.
All such receptacles shall be so secured that they cannot be overturned. In cases of trade premises,
the receptacles must be placed on raised platforms not over thirty (30) inches in height with at least
one (1) foot of clear space underneath.
10.
Where this is no lane at the rear or side of any premises, or where, for any other reason,
the provisions of Section 9 hereof cannot be reasonably complied with, such receptacles shall be
kept in such place as the Director of Public Services may designate.
11.
Ashes shall not be mixed with other refuse, but shall be placed in suitable non-
combustible containers not to exceed three (3) cubic feet in capacity on the rear of the lot within six
(6) feet of the lane in a place convenient for collectors. Where there is no lane at the rear or side of
any premises, or where, for any reason, the provisions of this section cannot reasonably be complied
with, ashes and containers therefor shall be placed where the Director of Public Services may
designate.
12.
Rags, paper, magazines, cartons and other like materials shall be securely tied in bundles
or put in containers and placed immediately adjacent to the garbage receptacle for collection and
removal.
13.
The removal of refuse from places placarded by the Medical Health Officer by reason of
communicable diseases shall be performed under the direction and supervision of the Medical
Health Officer.
14.
No person, other than a lawful user thereof or the authorized employees of the City or the
Collector, shall open any garbage receptacle or remove anything therefrom, or in any manner disturb
the contents thereof, or in any way handle, interfere with or disturb any rubbish put out for
collection and removal.
15.
(1)
Broken glass, crockery, stones or rocks, shall not be mixed with other refuse, but:
shall be placed together in a separate garbage receptacle.
(2)
Inflammable materials must be placed in separate fireproof containers and will not
be picked up with garbage, trade waste or ashes. Special pick-ups may be made of
these materials upon application to the Director of Public Services.
16.
(1)
The Director of Public Services shall arrange for the systematic collection and
disposal of all the garbage, ashes, household wastes and trade wastes, originating
from all dwellings, apartment houses and trade premises in the City, and all
provisions as contained in this Bylaw pertaining to such collection and disposal
service shall be deemed to apply only to the places as mentioned in this subsection,
except as otherwise specifically provided.
(2)
The Collectors shall empty each garbage receptacle and remove the contents to the
City's landfill site at such periodic intervals as may be established from time to
time by resolution of Council.
(3)
The Collectors shall collect all wastes to which this Bylaw relates at the same time
as garbage is collected, and dispose of the same in like manner.
(4)
The Collectors shall collect all "cold" ashes at the same time as garbage is
collected, provided the cold ashes are set out beside the garbage receptacles in
satisfactory containers.
(5)
The collection and disposal service, as provided for in this section, shall be
rendered at the City cost, except as follows:
(a)
Council shall establish a monthly charge to commercial establishments,
apartment owners and trade premises for garbage collection, and the collector
may haul tree cuttings, waste material, resulting from building construction or
alteration and charge at an hourly rate for such service.
(b)
All garbage, ashes and other wastes to which this bylaw applies may be
removed by and at the cost of the owners, tenants or operators of the
premises, by their own means or by hired agents, and no charge will be made
by the City for such materials so removed, provided same is removed in a
manner and to a place suitable to the Director of Public Services.
(6)
The Council may, from time to time, by Bylaw:
(a)
Fix a scale of charges co be levied by the City and paid by those liable
therefor under this Bylaw, for removal of garbage, ashes and other wastes;
(b)
Provide for the manner and time within which payment of such charges shall
be made.
(7)
Failure on the part of any person liable therefor to pay any charge rendered
pursuant to the provisions of subsection (6) hereof, within the time which may be
fixed therefor, shall be deemed to be a breach of this Bylaw.
(8)
Where a charge rendered in accordance with the provisions of this Bylaw by the
City to the owner or occupant of any premises for the collection, removal and
disposal therefrom of any garbage, ashes or other refuse, remains unpaid for ninety
(90) days following the date on which it was first rendered, the City Treasurer shall
certify the same to the City Assessor, who shall cause it to be entered upon the Tax
Roll as a lien and charge against the said premises, to be levied and collected in
like manner as municipal rates and taxes are by law recoverable. The City
Assessor shall forthwith, after adding the said charge to the Tax Roll, cause
particulars thereof to be sent by registered mail to the assessed owner of the
premises.
(9)
The charge for the removal of garbage, ashes, and other wastes from Apartment
Blocks may be made at the discretion of the Director of Public Services and based
Fees
on the volume of garbage, if necessary. Where the owner or operator of an
Apartment Block has installed an approved type of incinerator within the building,
the aforementioned basis of charging for garbage removal from Apartment Blocks
shall be adjusted by the Director of Public Services.
17.
No person or persons shall operate any vehicle transporting wastes or other debris of any
kind along or over any highway, street, lane, vacant lot, park or public place in the City of Yorkton
unless the load is completely enclosed or covered with a securely fastened covering in such a
manner to prohibit any part of the load on the said vehicle finding its way to the roadway or adjacent
premises.
18.
The Director of Public Services may provide a complete or partial collection and disposal
service to any specified premises not covered in this Bylaw upon such terms and conditions as to
payment or otherwise as he may set forth.
19.
(1)
Council may, from time to time by resolution, approve of one or more methods for
the disposal of garbage upon the premises from whence the same originates, by
discharging the same directly into the City's sewers after it has first been
thoroughly ground, or otherwise treated or processed, as may be specified in such
resolution.
(2)
No person shall install any equipment for, nor introduce into his own or any other
premises within the City, any method for disposal of garbage by discharge of the
same into the City's sewers, except upon written permit of the Director of Public
Services.
(3)
Where any method for disposal of garbage is approved under subsection (1) hereof,
Council may by bylaw:
(a)
Fix a charge or scale of charges to be levied by the City and paid by every
householder, apartment house owner, or occupant of trade premises, as the
case may be, who disposes of garbage by such method;
(b)
Provide for the manner and time within which payment of such charges shall
be made.
(4)
Failure on the part of any person liable therefor to pay any charge rendered
pursuant to the provisions of subsection (3) hereof, within the time which may be
fixed therefor, shall be deemed to be a breach of this Bylaw.
(5)
No person shall burn any garbage within the City of Yorkton unless written
permission is received from the Fire Chief.
20.
(1)
The following is hereby designated as the Sanitary Landfill of the City of Yorkton:
A portion of the SW ¼ of Section 13,
Township 26, Range 4, West of the
Second Meridian.
(2)
The Sanitary Landfill grounds shall be enclosed by a fence with a suitable gate to
Sanitary
Landfill
provide ingress and egress to the grounds.
(3)
No person shall be permitted to enter the grounds except a person or persons
operating a vehicle for the purpose of conveying refuse into the grounds, and such
person or persons shall be permitted to remain on the Sanitary Landfill grounds
only as long as reasonably may be required to unload the refuse contained in the
vehicle.
(4)
No person shall enter upon the City's Sanitary Landfill grounds for the purpose of
removing anything therefrom, nor for the purpose of examining or in any way
disturbing or handling any refuse therein.
(5)
The Director of Public Services may permit any person who is not a resident of the
City to dispose of refuse in the Sanitary Landfill grounds, subject to such terms and
conditions as the Director of Public Services may deem expedient.
(6)
Subsection (3) herein shall not apply co employees of the City who may have
occasion to go on to the Sanitary Landfill Grounds in the course of their
employment with the City, nor to officials of the City or other persons who have
occasion to go on to the Sanitary Landfill grounds for the purposes of business of
the City.
(7)
No person shall place or dump in the Sanitary Landfill grounds any oil or oil
products, or waste oil of any kind, mixture or nature whatsoever, except in the area
specifically provided and designed by the Director of Public Services in the
Sanitary Landfill grounds.
(8)
The hours during which refuse may be deposited in the Sanitary Landfill grounds
by any person or persons conveying refuse to the said Sanitary Landfill grounds
shall be:
Summer Hours - May l to October 31
Monday to Friday
8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Saturday
8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Sunday & Holidays
Closed
Winter Hours - November l to April 30
Monday to Saturday
8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Sunday & Holidays
Closed
and may be changed from time to time by resolution of Council.
(9)
No person shall burn any refuse or cause any fire to be set at the Sanitary
Landfill Grounds, except in a designated dry disposal area; and no person
shall deposit any combustible or inflammable refuse in the cell area of the said
Sanitary Landfill Grounds except as directed.
(10) No one shall dispose of the carcass of any dead animal, fowl, or any form of
livestock at the Sanitary Landfill grounds, save upon notification to the operator of
the Sanitary Landfill, and upon such terms as to disposal and payment therefor as
may be demanded by the City of Yorkton.
(11) No person or persons shall deposit any hazardous waste materials or waste not
suitable for deposit by the landfill method.
21.
Any person guilty of a breach of any of the provisions of this Bylaw, or of a breach of any
of the provisions of any resolution of Council passed pursuant to this Bylaw, or of a breach of any
direction given him or her by the Director of Public Services in accordance with this Bylaw, shall,
on conviction thereof, be liable to the penalties imposed under Penalty Bylaw No. 1690 of the City
of Yorkton.
22.
This Bylaw shall come into full force and effect on the date that approval is received from
the Minister of Public Health and the Minister of the Environment.
23.
Bylaw No. 926, No. 1403, No. 1612, No. 1902, and any amendments thereto, are hereby
repealed.
Introduced and read a first time this lst day of June, A. D. 1981.
Read a first time this 22nd day of June, A. D. 1981.
Read a second time this 22nd day of June, A. D. 1981.
Read a third time this 22nd day of June, A.D.1981, after unanimous agreement had been
reached to have a third reading, and passed unanimously this 22nd day of June, A. D. 1981, and
registered in the Bylaw Register of the City of Yorkton.
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Mayor
City Clerk
Penalties
Amended By
Bylaw
No. 32/1981