§ 14-2. Purpose and intent.

The purposes of this chapter include, but are not necessarily limited to, the following:

A.

To protect the health, safety, and general welfare of the people;

B.

To provide environmentally sound, cost-efficient solid waste management;

C.

To provide for regulations to ensure the safe and proper handling of solid waste generated, stored, hauled, collected, and/or disposed of within the collection service area;

D.

To develop data to ensure sufficient disposal capacity and/or recycling programs for solid waste and recyclable materials generated, stored, collected, disposed, processed, and otherwise found within the collection service area;

E.

To deter illegal dumping;

F.

To facilitate conservation of vital natural resources;

G.

To protect against risk that current municipal solid waste facilities become unable to accept municipal solid waste generated within the city;

H.

To encourage and enforce recycling programs, including source separation at point of generation;

I.

To provide a convenient and effective means of financing the city's solid waste services.

J.

To designate the public works director and/or his designee as the director of the city's solid waste management division; and

K.

To designate the city's type IV landfill site, collections, hauling and disposal, recycling operations and the municipal solid waste program as the Municipal Solid Waste Management Division of the City of Eagle Pass.

(Ord. No. 2012-06, § 1, 3-6-2012)