Chapter 7.10
LITTER CONTROL
Sections:
7.10.010 Declaration of purpose.
7.10.040 Littering prohibited – Penalties.
7.10.050 Notice to public – Contents of chapter – Required.
7.10.080 Removal of litter – Responsibility.
7.10.090 Coordination with the Department of Ecology.
7.10.900 Violations – Penalties.
7.10.010 Declaration of purpose.
The purpose of this chapter is to accomplish litter control throughout the City and to provide additional impetus to state-wide efforts to reduce waste and promote recycling. The intent of this chapter is to add to and to coordinate existing litter control and waste reduction and to promote recycling in coordination with the Department of Ecology. (Ord. 05-1001 § 1: Ord. 96-1028 § 1: Ord. 90-1058 § 1)
7.10.020 Definitions.
RCW 70.93.030 is hereby incorporated as now or hereafter amended, and all other statutes adopted by reference therein as if fully set forth herein. (Ord. 05-1001 § 1: Ord. 96-1028 § 2: Ord. 90-1058 § 2)
7.10.030 Enforcement.
City police officers and any City employees designated by the City Manager shall enforce the provisions of this chapter and all rules and regulations adopted hereunder. The City shall also have the authority to contract with the Department of Ecology for purposes of providing to that Department law enforcement services and personnel reasonably necessary to carry out the enforcement provisions of Chapter 70.93 RCW et seq. or this chapter. (Ord. 05-1001 § 1: Ord. 96-1028 § 3: Ord. 90-1058 § 3)
7.10.040 Littering prohibited – Penalties.
RCW 70.93.060 is hereby incorporated as now or hereafter amended, and all other statutes adopted by reference therein as if fully set forth herein. (Ord. 05-1001 § 1: Ord. 96-1028 § 4: Ord. 90-1058 § 4)
7.10.050 Notice to public – Contents of chapter – Required.
Pertinent portions of this chapter, or pertinent notices, may be posted along the public streets and highways of the City and at all entrances to City parks, recreational areas, at all public beaches, at all recycling centers and recycling bins, and at all other public places in the City where persons are likely to be informed of the existence and content of this chapter and the penalties for violating its provisions. (Ord. 05-1001 § 1: Ord. 96-1028 § 5: Ord. 90-1058 § 5)
7.10.060 Litter receptacles – Use of anti-litter symbol – Distribution – Placement – Violations – Penalties.
A. Litter receptacles shall be of the design and bear an anti-litter symbol as designed and adopted by the State Department of Ecology.
B. Litter receptacles of the said uniform design shall be placed along the public streets and highways of this City and at all parks, drive-in restaurants, gasoline service stations, tavern parking lots, shopping centers, grocery store parking lots, parking lots of major industrial firms, boat launching areas, beaches and bathing areas, and such other public places within the City as may be specified by rule or regulation adopted by the City Manager, or designee.
C. It shall be the responsibility of any person owning or operating any establishment or public place in which litter receptacles of the uniform design are required by this section to procure and place such receptacles at their own expense on the premises.
D. Any person who fails to place such litter receptacles on the premises in the numbers required by rule or regulation of the Department of Public Works, violating the provisions of this section or rules or regulations adopted thereunder, shall be subject to a fine of ten dollars ($10.00) for each day of violation. (Ord. 05-1001 § 1: Ord. 95-1012 § 1: Ord. 90-1058 § 6)
7.10.070 Litter bags – Design and distribution by department authorized – Violations – Penalties.
Repealed by Ord. 05-1001. (Ord. 90-1058 § 7)
7.10.080 Removal of litter – Responsibility.
Responsibility for the removal of litter from receptacles placed by the City at parks, beaches and other public places shall be with the Department of Public Works. Removal of litter from litter receptacles placed on private property which is used by the public shall remain the responsibility of the owner of such private property. (Ord. 05-1001 § 1: Ord. 90-1058 § 8)
7.10.090 Coordination with the Department of Ecology.
The City shall coordinate with and shall support the efforts of the State Department of Ecology in accomplishing local anti-litter and recycling efforts; shall, together with the Department of Ecology, encourage, organize and coordinate all voluntary local anti-litter and recycling campaigns seeking to focus the attention of the public on the programs of the State and City to control and remove litter and foster recycling; and to investigate the availability of, and to apply for, funds available from any private or public source to be used in programs to control and remove litter; and, together with the Department of Ecology, to develop programs to increase public awareness of and participation in recycling and to stimulate and encourage local private recycling centers, public participation in recycling and research and development in the field of litter control and recycling, removal, and disposal of litter-related recycling materials. (Ord. 05-1001 § 1: Ord. 96-1028 § 6: Ord. 90-1058 § 9)
7.10.900 Violations – Penalties.
It is a civil infraction, punishable by a monetary penalty of no more than fifty dollars ($50.00) for any person who commits a violation of this chapter for which no penalty is specially provided. Each violation of this chapter shall be treated as a separate offense. (Ord. 05-1001 § 1: Ord. 96-1028 § 7: Ord. 90-1058 § 10)