§ 50.15 Activities and Practices Regulated

A) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, it shall be unlawful for any person other than the franchise holder under the provisions of §50.30 below to provide solid waste management service in the city for compensation.

(B) Nothing in this franchise shall:

(1) Prohibit a federal or state agency that collects, stores, transports or disposes of waste, solid waste or recyclable materials, or those who contract with the agencies to perform the service, but only insofar as the service is performed by or for the federal or state agency;

(2) Prohibit any person in the city from hauling his own waste, solid waste or recyclable materials in a lawful manner; provided, however, that no person will be permitted to haul the waste, solid waste or recyclable material for any other person or firm;

(3) Prohibit a generator of source separated recyclable material from selling or exchanging material to any person for fair market value for recycling or reuse;

(4) Prohibit any person from transporting, disposing of or resource recovering, sewage sludge, septic pumpings or cesspool pumpings;

(5) Prohibit any person licensed as a motor vehicle wrecker from collecting, transporting, disposing of or utilizing motor vehicles or motor vehicle parts;

(6) Prohibit any person transporting solid waste through the city that is not collected within the city;

(7) Prohibit a contractor registered under ORS Chapter 701 from hauling waste created in connection with the demolition, construction or remodeling of a building or structure or in connection with land clearing and development.The waste shall be hauled in equipment owned by the contractor and operated by the contractor's employees;

(8) Prohibit the collection, transportation and reuse of repairable or cleanable discards by private charitable organizations regularly engaged in the business or activity and not engaged in the regular business of collection of putrescible solid waste;

(9) Prohibit a non-profit charitable, benevolent or civic organization from collecting recyclable materials provided that the collection is not a regular or periodic business of the organization.The organizations shall comply with all applicable provisions of this chapter;

(10) Prohibit a person from transporting or disposing of waste that is produced as an incidental part of the regular carrying on of the business of janitorial service, gardening or landscaping service, or rendering.(These sources do not include the collection, transportation or disposal of accumulated or stored wastes generated or produced by other persons.); and

(11) Require franchisee to store, collect, transport, dispose of or resource recover any hazardous waste as defined by or pursuant to ORS Chapter 466; provided, however, that franchisee may engage in a separate business of handling the wastes separate and apart from this franchise and chapter.

(Ord. 1851, passed 8-8-94)Penalty, see § 50.99