Indiana Code 36-9-31-8. Fees for waste collection and disposal
(b) The board may fix the fees for waste collection on the basis of a schedule of charges for each classification of residence or building in use in the solid waste collection service district, and may fix the fees for waste disposal on the basis of a schedule of charges for each classification of residence or building in use in the waste disposal district. These classifications of residences and buildings shall be based on:
Terms Used In Indiana Code 36-9-31-8
- Board: refers to the board of public works of the consolidated city, subject to IC 36-3-4-23. See Indiana Code 36-9-31-2
- Disposal: includes the treatment of as well as the placing, processing, confining, compacting, storing, or covering of waste. See Indiana Code 36-9-31-2
- Facility: means any facility, plant, works, system, building, structure, improvement, machinery, equipment, fixture, or other real or personal property that is to be used, occupied, or employed for the storage, processing, or disposal of waste or the recovery and marketing by any means of any byproduct, such as recycling centers, transfer stations, trucks, bailing facilities, rail haul or barge haul facilities, processing systems, byproduct recovery facilities or other facilities for reducing waste volume, sanitary landfills, plants and facilities for compacting, composting, or pyrolization of wastes, incinerators, and other waste disposal, reduction, or conversion facilities or any combination thereof. See Indiana Code 36-9-31-2
- Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
- Property: includes personal and real property. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
- Public notice: means a notice published in accordance with IC 5-3-1. See Indiana Code 36-9-31-2
- Revenue bonds: means bonds issued under section 10 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 36-9-31-2
- Revenues: means the amounts received by the consolidated city from the operation or ownership of facilities, including amounts received from the collection of fees under section 8 of this chapter, amounts received under financing agreements under section 11 of this chapter, tipping fees, lease rentals, and amounts received from the sale or other disposition of byproducts, but not including any amounts derived from the levy of taxes. See Indiana Code 36-9-31-2
- Service district: means the solid waste collection special service district created by IC 36-3-1-6. See Indiana Code 36-9-31-2
- Solid waste: has the meaning set forth in IC 36-9-30-2, except that the term excludes sewage and other highly diluted water-carried materials or substances and those in gaseous forms, excludes waste when the waste is to be reused or reclaimed as salvage, and excludes waste regulated under IC 13-22-1 through IC 13-22-8 and IC 13-22-13 through IC 13-22-14. See Indiana Code 36-9-31-2
- Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
- Waste: includes solid waste and water disposed of in conjunction with the disposal of solid waste, as well as liquid waste (consisting of sludge from air or water pollution control facilities or water supply treatment facilities), when disposed of in conjunction with the disposal of solid waste. See Indiana Code 36-9-31-2
- Waste disposal district: means the waste disposal special taxing district referred to in IC 36-3-1-6. See Indiana Code 36-9-31-2
(2) the average number of containers or bags of refuse received;
(3) the relative difficulty associated with the disposal of the waste received; or
(4) any combination of these criteria or any other criteria the board determines to be logically related to the service.
(c) The collection of the fees authorized by this section may be effectuated through a periodic billing system or through a charge appearing on the semiannual property tax statement of the affected property owner.
(d) If the fees are not paid when due (by the affected property owner), a lien is created upon the property benefited by the collection and disposal of waste. When the property is sold at a tax sale under the procedures provided by statute, the amount of the purchase price attributable to the waste charge lien reverts to the consolidated city.
(e) The board may exercise reasonable discretion in adopting differing schedules of fees, based upon variations in the cost of furnishing the services included within this chapter to various classes of owners of property, the distance of the property benefited from the facility, or any other variations the board determines to be logically related to the cost of the service.
(f) Fees shall be established only after a public hearing before the board at which all persons using facilities or owning property benefited by waste collection and disposal, and others interested, have had opportunity to be heard by the board concerning the proposed fees. After adoption of the resolution fixing fees and before the resolution takes effect, public notice of the hearing, setting forth the schedule of fees, shall be given. The hearing may be adjourned from time to time. After the hearing, the resolution establishing fees, either as originally passed or as amended, shall be passed and put into effect. A copy of the schedule of fees so established shall be kept on file in the office of the board and shall be kept open to inspection by all persons interested. The fees established shall be extended to cover any additional territory later served that falls within the same class, without the necessity of any hearing or notice. Any change or readjustment of fees may be made in the same manner as they were originally established.
(g) An action to contest the validity of the fees adopted or the procedure by which they were adopted must be brought within thirty (30) days following the adoption of the fees.
(h) Fees imposed under this chapter may be used, together with any other revenues, to pay the cost of facilities for waste disposal, waste collection, the operation and maintenance of facilities, cost incurred under put or pay contracts, charges that may be pledged to the payment of principal of and interest on waste disposal district or revenue bonds, or amounts required by put or pay contracts.
(i) Before any fee established by the board for waste collection or disposal may take effect, the city-county legislative body must by ordinance approve, reject, or modify the fee.
As added by Acts 1982, P.L.77, SEC.27. Amended by P.L.38-1984, SEC.7.