Information about Weston City Code 77-1 - 77-7

Weston City Council wants to remind residents about Weston City Code 77-1 - 77-7. This code provides guidance on the storage, collection, and prohibited acts of garbage, trash, and refuse. 

Please take note of 77-3 (d-f)

77-1: Storage, collection and prohibited acts of garbage, trash and refuse;

Purpose: The intent is to maintain an environment within the City of Weston that is free from garbage, trash and refuse. Residents of the City of Weston should be free from the nuisances of unsightly deposits of garbage, trash and refuse and the noxious odors that accompany such. 

77-2 Definitions;

For the purposes of this article, the following words and phrases shall have the

meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:

(a) "Approved Container" means a metal or plastic container, which is portable, watertight, equipped with handles and a lid, and has a capacity of not less than ten gallons nor more than 96 gallons (if equipped with wheels), which when full, shall not have a total combined weight of contents and container of more than 75 pounds.

(b) "Garbage" means all matter, solid, liquid or mixed, which attends, is created or accumulates within the city from the preparation, cleaning, cooking, use, storage or sale of any matter designed or intended as foodstuff for human consumption. Such term shall also include tin cans, bottles and other containers from which food or foodstuffs have been removed.

(с) "Осcupant" means any person residing in, renting, leasing, occupying, operating or transacting business in any premises.

(d) "Premises" means every residence, household, apartment, trailer court, motel, hospital, nursing home, hotel, restaurant, café, market, wholesale or retail store or other establishment or place of business in the City of Weston in which garbage or trash accumulates.

(e) "Refuse" means garbage and rubbish collectively.

(f) "Rubbish" means all normal wastes resulting from the use or occupancy of any premises such as ashes, brush, grass, leaves or other similar substances but does not include any building material or industrial waste.

(g) "Litter" means the disorderly accumulation of objects, especially discarded

waste material or scraps.

77-3 Storage of garbage, refuse and rubbish prior to removal;

(a) Every occupant of premises from which garbage and rubbish are to be removed shall deposit all garbage and rubbish in such approved containers as shall prevent the same from being scattered or blown upon any other premises or public ways in the city to cause litter.

(b) No person shall deposit or store garbage or refuse unless such garbage or refuse has been prepared for collection, removal and disposal and complies with the definition of garbage, refuse or rubbish as set out in this article.

(c) Lids shall be kept on approved containers at all times.

(d) Approved containers are not to be stored in front yards of premises on a regular basis, where said containers can be viewed by the general public.

(e) Occupants shall not place approved containers, garbage, refuse or rubbish on the curb or out for collection, prior to 6:00 p.m. of the day prior to the scheduled pick-up.

(f) All approved containers shall be returned to there appropriate storage place by no later than 6:00 p.m. on the day of pick-up service.

 77-4 Disposition of garbage refuse and rubbish;

No person shall keep or dispose of garbage, refuse or rubbish within the city except as provided in this article.

77-5 Unlawful Acts;

(a) No person shall throw, place or scatter any garbage, refuse or rubbish over or upon any premises, street or alley, either public or private, or adjacent thereto; or permit the accumulation of garbage, refuse or rubbish on any premises owned, occupied or controlled by such person, to become or remain offensive, unsanitary, unsightly, unsafe to public health or hazardous from fire. For purposes of this section, the words "such person" as used in the preceding sentence shall include the owner of the property, the landlord, and the tenant.

(b) Shall keep or maintain on any premises any garbage, refuse or rubbish intended for removal or collection therefrom in any manner other than that prescribed by this article.

(c) Shall cause or permit any vehicle containing garbage to stand upon any street, alley or thoroughfare within the city, except when in actual use in receiving or loading garbage.

(d) No person shall dispose of garbage, trash or other refuse or rubbish by dumping it into any dumpster or container located on any property other than that on which such garbage, trash or other refuse was produced.

(e) No person shall scavenge or withdraw any substance from a dumpster, trash can or other trash or refuse container located on private or public property for the purpose of converting such substance to his or her own use.

77-6 Penalty;

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this code, any person violating any of the provisions of this article, or failing or refusing to abide by and comply with the rules or regulations promulgated to effectuate the provisions of this article, shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than $50.00 nor more than $500.00 and costs, and for each second or subsequent offense.

(b) Each succeeding day a violation of this article exists shall constitute a new and separate offense.

77-7 Severability;

The provisions of this article are severable, and if any provisions or part thereof

shall be invalid or unconstitutional or inapplicable to any person or circumstances, such invalidity, unconstitutionality or inapplicability shall not affect or impair the remaining provisions of this article. This article shall not be deemed to impair or effect any existing contract for the collection of garbage, refuse or rubbish.