AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING DEFINITIONS,
RULES, REGULATIONS, AND PROVISIONS FOR THE HANDLING, HAULING, TRANSPORTING
KEEPING AND DISPOSING OF GARBAGE, REFUSE AND RUBBISH ON PUBLIC AND PRIVATE
PROPERTY WITHIN THE UNINCORPORATED AREAS OF BOISE COUNTY, DESIGNATING COUNTY COLLECTION
SITES AND TRANSFER STATION, PROVIDING FOR RATES AND FEES, PROVIDING FOR
ENFORCEMENT, PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
SECTION I: REPEAL
& SHORT TITLE
Boise County Ordinance #99-3
is hereby repealed. This Ordinance shall
be known and cited as the Boise County Garbage and Refuse Ordinance.
SECTION II: PURPOSE
This Ordinance is adopted for
the purpose of protecting the health of the public, providing for orderly and
prompt disposition of garbage and refuse, regulating the storage of garbage and
refuse on any promises, providing for sites for county sanitary collection
sites and transfer station and use thereof by all parties, and to provide
uniform standards for the protection of the public in handling of garbage and
refuse.
SECTION III: DEFINITIONS
Administrator: Shall mean the Boise County Planning and
Zoning Administrator.
Appliance:
Shall mean refrigerators, stoves, washers/dryers and the like.
Board: Shall
mean the Boise County Board of
Board of Health or Health Authority: Central District Health, District IV or such agency
or unit of government which may succeed in the powers, duties and
responsibilities of said authority.
Commission:
Shall mean the Boise County Planning and Zoning Commission.
Construction & Demolition (C & D): Those
materials which are the product of new materials from remodeling construction,
a destroyed building or partially destroyed building caused by fire, flood, act
of any person or by act of God, which include but is not limited to lumber,
concrete, piping, roofing, bricks, cinder blocks, pavement or other like
material.
Garbage:
Shall mean putrescible refuse, including waste accumulation of animal or
vegetable matter, and including waste that attends the preparation, use,
serving, cooking, dealing in, or storing of meats, fish, fowl, fruits and
vegetables. Small dead animals not
weighing over fifteen (15) pounds shall be included in this definition. The term “garbage” shall not include sewage,
human body waste or recognized industrial by-products.
Hazardous Waste: Shall mean a waste or combination of wastes of solid, liquid,
semisolid, or contained gaseous form which, because of its quantity,
concentration or characteristics (physical, chemical or biological), may:
a) cause or significantly
contribute to an increase in serious, irreversible or incapacitation reversible
illnesses; or
b) pose a substantial threat
to human health or to the environment if improperly treated, stored, disposed
of, or managed. Such waste includes, but
are not limited to materials which are toxic, corrosive, ignitable, or
reactive, or materials which may have mutagenic, teragenic, or carcinogenic
properties but do not include solid or dissolved material in domestic sewage,
or solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or industrial
discharges which are point sources subject to national pollution discharge
elimination system permits under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as
amended, 33 U.S.C., Section 1251 et seq., or source special nuclear, or
by-product material as defined by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, 43
U.S.C., Section 2011 et seq.
Large Furniture: Shall mean any recliner, couch, mattress, desk, and chest of drawers.
Owner and Occupants: Wherever herein used will be used interchangeably and shall mean every
person in possession, charge or in control of any dwelling, flat, rooming
house, apartment house, hospital, school, hotel, motel, restaurant, boarding
house or any shop, place of business, manufacturing or business establishment
where garbage or trash or refuse is created or accumulated.
Person:
Shall mean any person, firm partnership, association, institution or
corporation, and in the plural as well as the singular.
Premises:
Shall be taken to mean any dwelling, flat, apartment, rooming house, hotel,
motel, club, restaurant, hospital, school, boarding house, eating place, shop,
and place of business or any other building or structure.
Refuse: Shall
mean items of trash, litter, drugs and other leavings which by their nature are
noxious, odoriferous or are subject to the development of bacteria, virus or
other hazards to health, but excluding inert matters such as trees, lumber,
scrap iron, ashes cinders, or similar matter.
Residence:
As used in the Ordinance, shall be taken to mean the place of dwelling of one
head of family and his or her dependants.
Rubbish:
Shall mean items other than garbage or refuse, such as waste materials produced
in the course of every day living of an inert nature, not tending to produce
noxious odors or development of health hazards through the growth of bacteria
or virus, being such items as ashes, cinders, lumber, trees, uncontaminated
paper and cardboard, and miscellaneous waste material such as, but not limited
to, coal, automobile bodies, and the like.
Disposal Site:
Shall mean such areas so designated by the Board which shall be the only areas
where garbage and refuse may be dumped on public or private property within
Urbanized Area:
Shall mean all unincorporated areas of
SECTION IV: CONDITION
OF PROPERTY
No person shall throw,
deposit or permit to accumulate any refuse, garbage, or rubbish in any building
or any premises, improved or vacant, or any lot or area, either public or
private, within
To be a source of flies or fly breeding;
To afford food or harborage of rodents or
other animals;
To be a source of noxious, odorous or of
conditions inimical to public interest, dangerous
or prejudicial to health or a health nuisance.
The burning of garbage,
refuse or rubbish at any place or in any manner in Boise County shall be
permitted only if done in accordance with and as permitted by State and Federal
statutes, regulation and agreements, specifically those governing air quality,
water quality and fire safety.
No person shall burn,
incinerate, bury, dump, collect, remove, or in any other manner dispose of
rubbish, garbage, or other refuse within Boise County, except as hereby
provided. No person shall throw, discard
or deposit any trash, garbage or other refuse in or upon any roadway, street,
alley, sidewalk, vacant ground, or in or upon any canal, irrigation ditch, drainage
ditch or other watercourse within
It shall be unlawful for any
person, upon vacating or moving from dwellings, storerooms, or any other
building situated in an urbanized area, to fail to remove all garbage or
rubbish from such buildings and premises and also the grounds pertinent
thereto; or to fail to place the same in a thoroughly sanitary condition
twenty-four (24) hours after the said premises shall be vacated.
Compost piles may be
maintained for fertilization purposed, and matter used for fertilization
purposes only may be transported, kept and used, provided the same shall not
constitute a nuisance.
It shall be the duty of the
owner or occupant of any place where garbage, trash or other refuse is created
or accumulated to at all times keep or cause to be kept portable appurtenances
consisting of metal or other approved type of container for the deposit therein
of trash and garbage or other refuse and, except as otherwise provided, to
deposit or cause to be deposited all trash and garbage or other refuse therein.
SECTION V: PRIVATE
USE AND FEES
Private Use:
All persons within Boise County will use the designated County collection sites
or transfer station for all garbage, rubbish and refuse accumulated through
normal every day domestic living or small business operation.
No hazardous waste will be accepted by any
Any exceptions to this
Section shall be approved by the Boise County Commissioners.
Fees: In
addition to those fees imposed by Resolution in accordance with Boise County Ordinance
82-2, relating to solid waste disposal, miscellaneous fees will be set by
separate Resolution by the Board and reviewed annually.
SECTION VI: TRANSPORTING
REGULATIONS
It shall be unlawful for any
person hauling garbage, refuse or rubbish to do so without providing a cover
secured to the vehicle which said garbage, refuse or rubbish is being
hauled. This section is to prevent
scattering or blowing, or loss of such material so transported.
SECTION VII: DESIGNATED
COLLECTION SITES AND TRANSFER STATION
The Board hereby designated
one (1) location as the County transfer station and three (3) locations as
collection sites. They are located as
follows:
a)
Warm Springs Collection
Site - located west of
b)
c)
Lowman Collection
Site - located west of Ten Mile Creek on
d)
Horseshoe Bend Transfer
Station and Collection Site - located west of Horseshoe Bend, off the old
The Solid Waste Supervisor
shall oversee the operation of the transfer station and collection sites,
specifically including the setting of hours of operation, placement and
segregation of various categories of material.
The Solid Waste Supervisor will report to the Board for final approval
of operation plan.
SECTION VIII: COLLECTION
OF MONEY
The Board designates and
appoints the Boise County Auditor to promulgate procedures for the collection
of money at the landfills, including the bonding of employees if appropriate in
cooperation with the Solid Waste Supervisor.
SECTION IX: ENFORCEMENT
Each violation of any
regulation hereunder shall be a misdemeanor.
Such violations shall be punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not
exceeding six (6) months, or by a fine not exceeding three hundred dollars
($300), or by both fine and imprisonment.
Whenever the health
authorities shall have determined that a violation of these provisions has
occurred, or is about to occur, it shall notify the Board and make a
recommendation of the action to be taken.
The Board may refer the matter to the Boise County Prosecuting Attorney
with a recommendation for legal action.
SECTION X: VALIDITY
AND EFFECTIVE DATE
Should any section,
subsection, paragraph, sentence, or clause hereof, or any particular
application thereof be declared unconstitutional or invalid for any reason by a
court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of
the remaining provision of this Ordinance.
In the event the health
authority fails to act or carry out its responsibilities hereunder, the Board
may assume all such duties and responsibilities and direct the Boise County
Planning & Zoning Administrator, the Boise County Sheriff, and/or Boise
County Prosecuting Attorney to act accordingly.
This Ordinance shall be in
full force and effect immediately following the publication of same in the
Idaho World.
Regularly passed by the Board
of County Commissioners of
BOARD OF
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Roger B
Jackson, Chairman
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Fred H Lawson, Commissioner
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Paul A.
Stutzman, Commissioner
Attest:
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Rora A. Canody, Clerk of the
Board