HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD NO 4630ORDINANCE NO. 4 6 3 0
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF BAKERSFIELD
AMENDING SECTION 8.32.060 OF THE BAKERSFIELD
MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO SOLID WASTE BILLING
BE IT ORDAINED 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:
Chapter 8.32 REFUSE/SOLID WASTE/RECYCLING
8.32.060 Billing, collection and payment of charges-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,
triplexes and fourplexes and 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 or she
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 up to three
months 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 by the city council 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'
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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 1 st 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.
SECTION 2.
This Ordinance shall be posted in accordance with the Bakersfield
Municipal Code and shall become effective ten (10) days 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 City of Bakersfield at a regular meeting thereof held on
NOV 1 7 2010 , by the following vote:
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NOES:
ABSTAIN:
ABSENT:
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COUNCILMEMBER CARSON, BENHAM, WEIR, COUCH, HANSON, SULLIVAN, SCRIVNER
COUNCILMEMBER
COUNCILMEMBER
COUNCILMEMBER •(~CSY~-~
ROBERTA GAFFORD, C
CITY CLERK and EX OFFICIO CLERK of the
Council of the City of Bakersfield
APPROVED:
By:
NOV 1 7 20
HARVEY L. HALL
Mayor
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
VIRGINIA GENNARO
City Attorney
BETHELWEL WILSON
Associate City Attorney
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AFFIDAVIT OF POSTING DOCUMENTS
STATE OF CALIFORNIA)
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County of Kern )
ROBERTA GAFFORD, 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 19th day of November, 2010 she posted on the Bulletin Board at City
Hall, a full, true and correct copy of the following: Ordinance No. 4630, passed by the
Bakersfield City Council at a meeting held on the 17th_day of November, 2010 and
entitled:
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF BAKERSFIELD AMENDING
SECTION 8.32.060 OF THE BAKERSFIELD MUNICIPAL CODE
RELATING TO SOLID WASTE BILLING.
ROBERTA GAFFORD
City Clerk and Ex Officio of the
Council of the City of Bakersfield
By: QW4 &6w-L
DEPUTY City Clerk
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