HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD NO 3679ORDINANCE NO. ~ 6 7 9
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION
8.32.060 OF THE BAKERSFIELD
MUNICIPAL CODE RELATIVE TO BILLING,
COLLECTION AND PAYMENT OF CHARGES
FON REFUSE COLLECTION.
WHEREAS, the City is converting its main computer system from
Prime to IBM/HTE; and
WHEREAS, currently refuse charges are billed quarterly in
advance and monthly billing is the standard business practice.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ONDAINED by the Council of the City of
Bakersfield as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 8.32.060 of the Bakersfield Municipal Code is hereby
amended to read as follows:
8.32.060 Billina, collection and payment of charaes--Refunds.
A. The collection of the charges shall be under the
direction, supervision and control of the finance director.
B. Collection of charges for single-family dwelling units,
duplexes, and triplexes receiving residential can-type service
shall be submitted by the finance director to the Kern County
auditor-controller and tax collector, and to such other county
officers as may be required, for placement of such charges as
assessments on the secured roll of the county and he shall request
that the tax collector each year collect and enforce the
assessments in the same manner as ad valorem property taxes. With
respect to all other charges (including commercial and multi-
residential refuse bin accounts), the finance director may require
billings to be paid monthly in advance; provided, that the first
monthly charges shall be prorated.
C. The finance director may make refunds of advance payments
on the same pro rata basis if requested in writing in affidavit
form by the depositor within three months from the date of any
termination of an account, otherwise no refund shall be made.
Adjustments for any increase or decrease of service shall otherwise
be made only on a monthly basis.
D. All charges set pursuant to the procedures specified in
Chapter 3.70 of this code for refuse/solid waste/recycling services
or otherwise imposed in this chapter are due and payable on the
first day of the month and become delinquent after the last day of
the month. Interest at the rate of one percent per month shall be
added to any delinquency. Should the city resort to court action
to collect amounts due, the city shall be entitled also to collect
its reasonable costs, including attorneys' fees.
E. Beginning with the 1986-87 fiscal year, persons aged
sixty-five or older who own and have owned and occupied a single-
family dwelling unit since March 1st of the preceding year shall,
upon application to the finance director between April 1st and June
30th, be entitled to a refund of one-half that year's annual
charges paid for city refuse/solid waste management services to
such dwelling. Not more than one refund shall be made per
dwelling.
F. Owner/occupants of a single-family dwelling, absent from
such dwelling for a period of thirty consecutive days after the
effective date of the ordinance adopting this subsection shall,
upon application to the finance director, be entitled to a prorated
refund of refuse/solid waste/recycling charges for such period as
the dwelling in unoccupied, provided advance notice that hte
dwelling would be unoccupied for such period of time was provided
to the water and sanitation department.
SECTION 2.
This Ordinance shall be posted in accordance with the
Bakersfield Municipal Code provisions and shall become effective
thirty (30) days from and after the date of its passage.
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! HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance was passed and
adopted by the Council of the fig of Bakersfield at a regular
meeting thereof held on OCT 2 , by the following vote:
AYES: COUN~LMEMBER [k~}NO, CARSON, 8tlITH~/~)ERIdOTT, ROWLES, SULUVA~ SN. VAGr~O
NOES: COUNCIl. MEMBER 1~ ( ~'~'~--
Council of the City of Bakersfield
APPROVED
BOB PRIC~~/~~
MAYOR of the City of Bakersfield
APPROVED as to form:
JUDY K. SKOUSEN
City Attorney
Assistant Cl~ty- Attorney
City of Bakersfield
ADD/meg
MBG~ORD 95-1\REFUSE.AMD
--September 29. 1995
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AFFIDAVIT OF POSTING DOCUMENTS
STATE OF CALIFORNIA)
) SSo
County of Kern )
CAROL WILLIAMS, being duly sworn, deposes and says:
That she is the duly appointed, acting and qualified City Clerk of
the City of Bakersfield; and that on the 26th day of October, 1995
she posted on the Bulletin Board at City Hall, a full, true and
correct copy of the following: Ordinance No.
Bakersfield City Council at a meeting held
October, 1995, and entitled:
3679, passed by the
on the 25th day of
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 8.32.060 OF THE
BAKERSFIELD MUNICIPAL CODE RELATIVE TO
BILLING, COLLECTION AND PAYMENT OF CHARGES FOR
REFUSE COLLECTION
/s/ CAROL WILLIAMS
City Clerk of the City of Bakersfield