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<br />ORDINANCE NO. 808
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<br />AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE COLLECTION OF GARBAGE AND TRASH
<br />IN THE CITY OF LA PORTE AND ESTABLISHING RATES; PROVIDING FOR
<br />THE LICENSING OF COMMERCIAL HAULERS; PROVIDIMG THAT ANY PERSON
<br />VIOLATING THE TERMS OF'THIS ORDINANCE SHALL BE DEEMED GUILTY
<br />OF A MISDEMEANOR AND UPON CONVICTION SHALL BE FINED IN ANY SUM
<br />NOT TO EXCEED TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS ($200.00), AND EACH DAY OF
<br />VIOLATION SHALL BE DEEMED A SEPARATE OFFENSE; CONTAINING
<br />REPEALING AND SAVING CLAUSES; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE
<br />HEREOF.
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<br />BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LA PORTE,
<br />TEXAS, THAT:
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<br />Section 1. Definitions.
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<br />Construction Debris. The term "construction debris"
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<br />shall be held to mean all debris and waste materials resulting
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<br />from building and/or repairs to premises, including but not
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<br />limited to such itemS as scrap lumber, concrete, brick, scraps,
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<br />wire, and roofing material.
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<br />Garbage. The term "garbage" shall be held to mean all
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<br />animal and vegetable matters, dry kitchen refuse.;. and waste
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<br />material and refuse from kitchens, groce~y stores, and restaur-
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<br />ants, including such items as meat scraps; bread, bones, fruit
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<br />and vegetable peelings, and similar wastes.\ By the term "dry
<br />kitchen refuse" is meant the solids after the liquid or slop has
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<br />been drained off.
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<br />Premises. The word "premises" shall be taken to mean
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<br />business houses, rooming houses, boardinghouses, offices,
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<br />theaters~ hotels, motels, inns, restaurants, cafes, eating
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<br />houses, trailer courts, tourist courts, tourist camps, apart-
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<br />ments~ sanitariums, schools, private residences, vacant lots
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<br />and all other places within the city where garbage, trash or
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<br />rubbish accumulates ,in ordinary quantities.
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<br />Trash. The term "trash" shall mean rubbish, such as
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<br />feathers, paper, tin cans, rags, glass, broken dishes, boxes,
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<br />old clothes and shoes; also grass trimmings, tree leaves, hedge
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<br />trimmings and tree limbs not to exceed three (3) inches in
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<br />diameter and cut in lengths not exceeding four (4) feet. Tree
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