Ordinance 2086-95 - Laserfiche WebLink

• 1.7 The environment of services and protections that the City provides, such as the City's system of solid waste, including solid waste facilities, assists private entities in handling solid waste in the City. Taxes levied on the handling of solid waste in the City benefit the City's and County's entire solid waste system. 1.8 An excise on solid waste handling facilities is a fair and equitable means of raising revenue to fund City services, including general fund services and any general fund support for solid waste management activities. 1.9 This Ordinance creates a new chapter in Title III, Everett Municipal Code and imposes an excise on all solid waste handling facilities within the city. However, county-owned solid waste handling facilities are exempted from City taxes under RCW 36.58.080. 1.10 This Ordinance constitutes an exercise of the City's authority to levy excises for revenue, and not an exercise of the City's regulatory authority. Nothing in this Ordinance shall be construed to preclude the City's imposition of impact fees or charges on publicly owned or operated solid waste handling facilities, including environmental mitigation charges, directly attributable to such solid waste facilities. SECTION 2: DEFINITIONS The following definitions are applicable to this chapter only, and are intended to define taxable or nontaxable activities only. 2.1 Solid Waste means all putrescible and nonputrescible solid or semi-solid wastes, including, but not limited to, garbage, rubbish, ashes, residential wastes, industrial wastes, commercial wastes, hazardous waste, dangerous waste, biomedical wastes, swill, demolition and construction wastes, abandoned vehicles, or parts thereof. 2.2 Handling Facility means any facility, or part thereof, for management or handling of Solid Waste, including but not limited to, transfer stations, material recycling facilities, facilities for loading or unloading of sealed containers of Solid Waste. "Handling Facilities" excludes trucks or equipment for collection from households and businesses. "Handling Facilities" excludes disposal sites. "Handling Facilities" may include facilities not subject to permit jurisdiction of the Snohomish Health District. 2.3 Person means persons of either sex, firms, partnerships, corporations or other business entities acting by themselves or by servants, agents of employees. SECTION 3: EXCISE There is hereby levied on every person operating within the City a Handling Facility, or any part thereof, a fee of One Dollar and Seventy Cents ($1.70) per ton of Solid Waste handled in said Facility. 2