City of Annapolis - File #: O-41-16

• File #: O-41-16
• Version: 1
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 9/2/2016
• In control: City Council
• On agenda: 10/10/2016
• Final action: 10/24/2016
• Title: Compostable Food Waste - For the purpose of amending the Annapolis City Code definition of "Solid Waste" to exclude compostable food waste; to exempt collectors of compostable food waste from having to obtain a solid waste permit and pay the associated fee; and matters generally relating to the collection of compostable food waste.
• Sponsors: Jared Littmann, Michael J. Pantelides, Joe Budge
• Indexes: Housing and Human Welfare Committee

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
10/24/2016	1	City Council	adopt on second reader	Pass
10/24/2016	1	City Council	amendment(s) approved	Pass
10/24/2016	1	City Council	amended	Pass
10/24/2016	1	City Council	adopt on third reader	Pass
10/18/2016	1	Housing and Human Welfare Committee	recommend with amendments	Pass
9/26/2016	1	City Council	declare the public hearing closed
9/26/2016	1	City Council
9/12/2016	1	City Council	refer

Title
Compostable Food Waste - For the purpose of amending the Annapolis City Code definition of "Solid Waste" to exclude compostable food waste; to exempt collectors of compostable food waste from having to obtain a solid waste permit and pay the associated fee; and matters generally relating to the collection of compostable food waste.
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CITY COUNCIL OF THE
City of Annapolis

Ordinance 41-16 Amended

Introduced by: Alderman Littmann, Mayor Pantelides
and Alderman Budge

Referred to
Housing and Human Welfare Committee


AN ORDINANCE concerning

Compostable Food Waste

FOR the purpose of amending the Annapolis City Code definition of "Solid Waste" to exclude compostable food waste; to exempt collectors of compostable food waste from having to obtain a solid waste permit and pay the associated fee; and matters generally relating to the collection of compostable food waste.

BY repealing and re-enacting with amendments the following portions of the Code of the City of Annapolis, 2015 Edition
10.16.005


SECTION I: BE IT ESTABLISHED AND ORDAINED BY THE ANNAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL that the Code of the City of Annapolis shall be amended to read as follows:

Chapter 10.16 - SOLID WASTE

Article I - General Provisions

Section 10.16.005 - Definitions.

For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:

A. "Approved refuse container" means a container meeting the requirements of this chapter and used for holding solid waste.
B. "Bulk items" means household items such as sofas, chairs, tables, toilets, kitchen cabinets, carpeting, mattresses, box springs, dressers, large televisions, and picnic tables. Appliances and metal items such as bed frames, refrigerators, stoves, and dishwashers and metal objects over three and a half feet in length or weighing more than thirty-five pounds each are also bulk items. Bulk items shall not include materials that are collected in the recycling p...