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Title 17 : Refuse and Trash Disposal
Chapter 1 : Refuse

17-116 : Garbage service user fees.

  1. Fees established, collection rules, and regulations.
    1. There is hereby established a garbage service user fee to be charged to and collected from each residential, commercial, or industrial location in the City of Sweetwater, Tennessee on a monthly basis.
    2. "Residential, commercial, or industrial location" is hereby defined, for the purpose of this section, as all residential living units, commercial businesses or industrial sites within the City of Sweetwater, whether occupied or not, to which garbage and refuse pickup service is furnished by the City of Sweetwater, and available for use, whether utilized or not, and for which pick up service is not otherwise required to be provided as a commercial unit (for which terms of the city's garbage contract are required to use a dumpster or an apartment development in excess of six (6) units.)
    3. The garbage service user fee is established at an initial rate of seven dollars and fifty cents ($7.50) per month per residential, commercial, or industrial location and may be amended through the budget ordinance.
    4. The city recorder is authorized and directed to institute collection mechanisms, rules, and regulations and means as shall be deemed by the city recorder to be efficient, appropriate, and expedient to effect collections.
    5. The initial mechanism for collection shall be on the monthly utility bill through Sweetwater Utilities Board, and subject to the policies and procedures of the billing system used by SUB, including any penalty and interest.
  2. Penalty for non-payment.
    1. It is unlawful to refuse or neglect to pay the monthly residential garbage service user fee when billed. Each user shall be given ten (10) days from the billing date to make payment. The user shall be subject to penalty, interest, and/or fines which are applicable.
    2. Furthermore, each thirty (30) day period that the service fee remains unpaid shall subject the owner or the tenant, whichever is the user, shall be guilty of a separate municipal offense, and upon being found guilty shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty ($50.00) dollars.
    3. Any officer of the city, the city recorder, or codes enforcement officer may cite any person who fails to comply with the rules of this chapter into municipal court. (as added by Ord. #859, Jan. 2011)
Date Last Updated: 08/05/2024
Codification Date: 03/01/2004

Officials at Date of Last Codification:

Mayor - Doyle F. Lowe
Vice Mayor - Sam Moser
Commissioner - Lamar Hughes
Commissioner - Johanna Jinks
Commissioner - Alan Richeson
Commissioner - James A. Stutts
Recorder - Sonya Crush
City Attorney - John Cleveland
 

Date Last Updated: 08/05/2024
Codification Date: 03/01/2004

Officials at Date of Last Codification:

Mayor - Doyle F. Lowe
Vice Mayor - Sam Moser
Commissioner - Lamar Hughes
Commissioner - Johanna Jinks
Commissioner - Alan Richeson
Commissioner - James A. Stutts
Recorder - Sonya Crush
City Attorney - John Cleveland