Ordinance No.            16776              Council Bill No.           B 34-01            

amending Chapter 22 of the City Code relating to rates for solid waste residential customers; and fixing the time when this ordinance shall become effective.

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBIA, MISSOURI, AS FOLLOWS:

    SECTION 1.  Chapter 22 of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Columbia, Missouri, is hereby amended as follows:

    Material to be deleted in strikeout; material to be added underlined.

(a)     Rates. Residential service shall consist of the removal of refuse, in bags provided by the city or approved by the director, once weekly. The fees for such service shall be as follows:

    Residences, per month, per residential unit (single-family,

  duplex, apartment up to four (4) units) . . . . $ 9.85 10.30

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(c)     Collection methods and rates. The following collection methods and rates shall apply to apartment complexes with more than four (4) units per structure:

    (1)    The occupant, tenant or lessee of each apartment unit shall be charged nine dollars and ten cents ($ 9.10) nine dollars and fifty-five cents ($9.55) per month for pickup from bulk containers without bags furnished.

    

(2)    The owner or manager of an apartment complex may make application to the director for billing of an entire apartment complex to a single customer. This service with pickup from a bulk storage container without refuse bags shall be eight dollars and eighty five cents ($8.85) nine dollars and thirty cents ($9.30) per apartment unit per month, provided all apartment units in a complex are billed the same rate to a single customer.

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    SECTION 2.  The new rates established in this ordinance shall be applied to utility bills beginning with the first complete cycle billed after passage of this ordinance.

    SECTION 3.  This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage.

    PASSED this 5th day of February, 2001.