File #: ORD-49:007    Version: 1 Name: Amend Ordinance 778 regarding garbage fees
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 3/18/1949 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 3/18/1949
Title: 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)
Indexes: Policy - creation/amendment
Related files: ORD-51:006, ORD-49:021, ORD-48:018
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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, se...

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