HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD NO 335ORDINANCE NO. DD~' NEW SERIES
AN ORDINANCE ~ENDING SECTIONS
2 and 5 of ORDINANCE N0. 127
NEW SERIES (F THE CITY OF BAKERS-
FIELD, CALIFORNIA.
as fQllows:
SECTION 1.
BE IT 0RDAINED BY ~HE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAKERSFIELD,
That Sections 2 and 5 of Ordinance No. 12V New Series
of the City of Bakersfield, entitled "AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE
ACCUMULATION, REMOVAL, COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL OF RUBBISH, GARGAGE
AND STABLE MANURE, AND FIXING FEES AND CHARGES FOR REMOVING THE
SAME.. AND PROVIDING A PENALTY FOR VIOLATION OF SAID ORDINANCE AND
REPEALING ORDINANCE NO. 582 and ORDINANCE NO. 95 NEW SERIES, AND
ALL OTHER ORDINANCES AND PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH"
be and the same are hereby amended to read as follows:
SECTION 2.
(a) For the purpose of this ordinance the word "GARBAGE" shall
be held to include and mean kitchen and table refuse and offal,
swill, and also every accumulation of animal, vegetable and other
matter that attends the preparation, consumption, decay or dealing
in or storage of meats, fish, fowls, birds, fruits or vegetables
(saving and excepting that dead animals and offal of slaughter houses
are not included within the meaning of said word "garbage" as herein
defined. )
(b) The term "NIGHT SOIL" shall be held to include and mean
the contents of privy vaults, cess pools, dry wells and sinks.
(c) For the purpose of this ordinance, the word "RUBBISH"
shall mean and include all combustible and non-combustible waste
and refuse matter, excepting garbage, ordinarily accumulating in and
about residences, flats, buildings, apartment houses, lodging houses,
hotels, restaurants, eating houses, stores, shops, offices and other
'~ldings, and among other things it shall include tree trimmings,
grass cuttings and dead plants and weeds, but shall not include
brick mortar or other debris incident to the construction or demolitio~
of buildings.
1. The tex~ "NON-COMBUSTIBEL RUBBISH" shall incl~e and
be held ~ mean broken crockex~J, broken bottles, broken brick, tin
vessels, trin~nings from lawns and flower gardens, ashes, Wee trin~nings,
natural soil, street sweepings, earth and stone, obsolete or abandoned
motor vehicles, an~ non-combustible waste matter.
2. The term "COMBUSTIBLE RUBBISH"' shall include and mean
paper, pasteboard, carpets, rags, clothing, books, boots, shoes, straw,
packing, barrels, boxes, oily rags, oil waste, furniture, sawdust,
shavings and other similar articles that will cinerate through
contract with flames of ordinary temperature.
(d) The term "ASHES" shall be held to include and r~ean
the residue of materials burned.
(e) ' The term "COLLECTOR" shall mean for the purposes of
this ordinance, any person or persc~s, firm or firms, corporation
or corporations, who make a business of going from house to house,
from place to place collecting garbage and rubbish in the City of
Bakers fie ld.
~f) The term "PERMITTEE" for the purpose of this ord-
inance shall be held to mean and include any person, firm or cor-
poration who has been grsnted a permit for the removal of garbage
or rubbish as provided in this ordinance.
SECTION 6.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation
to keep, accumulate or permit to be kept or accumulated any non-
combustible rubbish as defined here in unless the same be kept in a
suitable box or boxes, barrels or other proper receptacles to be
kept on each of said premises sufficient to hold the non-combustible
rubbish which would ordinarily acc~nnulate on such premises, unless
the same be kept in a regular established permanent and fixed place
of business for which a permit has been issued and a license procured
for maintaining such business.
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance was
regularly introduced, passed and adopted by the Council of the
of Bakers field, on the/ ay of November, 1929, by the following
vote:
Ayes.-]~sms~n_. Carlo& C~A, Headen, ~ohnson Martin, Walters
..............................................................
'~ ~)'i~ of the
Oi ct~~~ Clerk of the
Council of the City of Bakersfield.
of N mber,
of Bakersfield%'
19~9.