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t-i i Y vr rAxib RESIDENTIAL COLLECTION POLICY THE CITY OF PARIS WILL PROVIDE'I'WICE-WF.EKLY RESIDENTIAL TRASH COLLECTION TO RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMERS PAYING A MONTHLY RESIDENTIAL 3ANTTATION CHARGE, SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING GUIDELINES: 1. Zones 1 and 3 will be collected on Monday and Thursday. Zone 2 will be collected on Tuesday and Friday (see map on reverse side). 2. Items for collection must be placed together at curbside no eazlier than dusk the day prior to scheduled collection and no later than 7:30 A.M. the day ofcollection. All items used for storage or contauunent ofbags, bundles and containers must be removed following collection by the city no later than 11:00 P.M. the day of collecrion. Storage containers shall be made of a solid and durable grade of inetal or plastic with a capacity of not less than ten (10) gallons and a capacity of not more than sixty (60) gallons. No permanent structures shall be constructed or placed at or near the curbside. 3. Household garbage or trash should be placed in properly secured disposable plastic bags. 4. Properly secured disposable bags will be removed from rigid or semirigid containers. All contadners will be left at the point of collection. For health and safety reasons, ~arbaee that is loose in containers will not be collected. 5. Brush cut in three (3) foot lengths and tied in small bundles (no more than three [3] cubic feet) will be picked up on regular collection days. 6. No more than a total of six (6) disposable bags or brush bundles will be collected on any regular collection day. On Thursday and Friday one bulk item will be picked up in addition to the six (6) bags or bundles. This item can be up to two (2) cubic yards in size (for example a refrigerator). Six (6) additional bags may be set out in lieu of placing a bulk item at the curbside. 7. The weight limit for disposable bags or brush bundles should not exceed fifry (50) pounds. 8. Bulk item oick ap: A single bulk item will be picked up on the second pickup day of the week (Thursday or Friday), this item will be limited in size to two (2) cubic yards. If you have more than one bulk item per week, you have two choices: 1) Call Public Works at (903) 784-9266 and someone will come out and give you an estimate of what it will cost ($20.00 per cubic yard) for the City of Paris Sanitation Dept. to remove your bulk items. 2) You can haul one pickup load per month to the landfill located at 3100 CR 33900 (see map on the back) for free by taking a current water bill and your drivers license, both must have the same address. Please do not ulace bulk items at the street until one (1) dav urlor to vick uo dav. 9. Items not nieked uu: Waste unacceptable for residential pick up shall include, but not be limited to: hazardous waste, construction/demolition debris, lumber, major vehicle parts, batteries, fencing, cross ties, landscape timbers, medical waste, caustic, coaosive, explosive, toxic, or (]aznmable materials; sewage or other human waste; animal waste; or other materials designated by [he U.S. Environntental Protection Agency (EPA), Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), city manager, or designee. 10. Tires: Tires will be picked up for a chazge of $5.00 (five dollars) each with a four (4) tire limit per month. Only ares from a passenger caz or light duty truck (one-ton or less) will be picked up for this fee. These tires shall be the standard manufactures recommended size for the vehicle they were removed from. 11. Ordinance 2001-072 Sec.16-27 Disposal of bulk items from residential units; lar¢e brush pickup; fees. For lazge accumularion of brush the resident shall be charged a separate fee of ten-dollars ($10.00) for each three hundred fifty (350) cubic feet or portion thereof, of accutnulated brush. 1'he additional chazge will be assessed on the monthly water bill in acwrdance with Section 16-28 (b) of the Code. Only brush accumulated from the individual residentia] lot will be eligible for the large brush pickup service; brush from contractors, laad clearing, or brush moved to the residence fmm another location will not be accepted. In lieu of brush pickup, residents may personally deliver their residenGal brush to the City of Paris compost site on Field Road for no additional fee. A maximum of two (2) loads containing no more than 350 cubic feet per load may be taken to the compost site per month. At the time of drop off, identification in the form of a valid Texas drivers license or other similar acceptable photo idenrification and a City of Paris residential water bill or receipt will be required. PLEASE NOTE: 350 cubic feet is equivalent to 7' x7' x7' 12. Brush: Limb size shall not exceed eighteen (18) inches in diameter and cut no longer than six (6) foot to eight (8) foot in length. Brush pick-up will be accomplished by picking limbs up curbside with the boom truck and hauling away. Limbs/brush olsced for pick-up shall not block drainaae ditches nor sidewalks and shall not be olaced in the street. New brush lists are distributed and started on Wednesday of each week. New lists are not worked until previous lists are completed which may require more than one (1) week. For brush pick-up, call Public Works office at 784-9266. Residents who place piles of brush at cwbside for pickup, but fail to contact the Public Works office to schedule the pickup shall be charged two times (2X) the normal rate. NOTE: Brush on state highways shall be put near right-of-way or an accessible driveway. 13. Curbside: Refers to that portion of the public right-of-way or private property adjacent to paved or traveled City roadways (including alleys). Any item(s) placed at curbside is assumed to be placed for collection, a fee may be charged for items removed in accordance with the ordinance. 14. Trash will not be collected on the following official holidays observed by the City of Paris: New Years Day, Martin Luther King Day, Good Friday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Friday after Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, and Christmas Day. Trash will not be picked up if the day after Christmas falis on a Saturday or Sunday. Revised November 6, 2007 ~~'f?9 9;3