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AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 11 OF ORDINANCE NO. 778 OF THE CITY OF JONESBORO, ARKANSAS, ADOPTED NOVEMBER 22, 1948, PROVIDING FOR THE COLLECTION OF GARBAGE FEES AND FOR ALL OTHER PURPOSES (NOTE: THIS ORDINANCE WAS AMENDED BY ORD-49:021 ON NOVEMBER 21, 1949)
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF JONESBORO, ARKANSAS:
SECTION 1. That Section 11 of Ordinance No. 778 of the City of Jonesboro, Arkansas, adopted on November 22, 1948, providing for the collection of garbage fees be hereby amended to read as follows:
"Section 11. The fees to be charged and paid for the collection and disposal of garbage shall be on a monthly basis, payable in advance, as follows:
Establishment Monthly Fee
Each house or apartment; occupied by 1 family unit,
containing not more than 4 rooms $0.50
Each house or apartment, occupied by 1 family unit,
Containing more than four rooms $0.75
Office buildings shall pay for each separate suite of rooms,
or room, in said office building $1.00
Each building, house or part of building occupied by a commercial business shall be classified by the Garbage Department according to volume of garbage accumulated by such business and pay the following fees:
Class A not more than $35.00
Class B not more than $30.00
Class C not more than $25.00
Class D not more than $20.00
Class E not more than $15.00
Class F not more than $10.00
Class G not more than $8.00
Class H not more than $6.00
Class I not more than $4.00
Class J not more than $2.00
Commercial business shall include the following kinds of business; hotels, grocery and/or meat markets, cafes or restaurants, department stores, clothing stores, shoe stores, furniture stores, novelty stores, jewelry stores, auto supply stores, electric supply stores, hardware stores, office supply stores, wholesale grocery stores, cleaning and pressing shops, laundries, motion picture theaters and other kinds of theaters, lumber yards, plumbing shops, electric shops, bottling plants, slaughter houses, service and filling stations, garages, shoe repair shops, barber shops, beauty parlors, printing shops, stationary shops, newspapers, machine shops, stock sales barns, wholesale gas, oil and refinery companies, boarding houses, bakery shops, undertaking parlors, print stores, drug stores, soda fountains, marble and monument establishment, daily products companies and industrial plants and other kinds of businesses, unless otherwise specified.
City Engineer Fred Haywood will be in charge of decided the classification under which the various business houses come.
Under the schedule passed at time the garbage disposal system was inaugurated in Jonesboro the rates setup were $12, $10, $8, $6, $4 and $2 a month.
The ordinance passed last night carries the emergency clause and becomes effective immediately.
The Council members will meet with the Community Center Board next week to discuss moving the officer to the center and work that will be required to place the center in shape to house the city offices and municipal courtroom."
SECTION 2. Whereas, garbage in the City of Jonesboro, Arkansas, is not now being property collected and disposed of, thereby endangering the health of said City and its inhabitants, and emergency is hereby declared to exist, and this ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and adoption.
SECTION 3. All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.
PASSED AND ADOPTED on this 18th day of March, 1949.