§ 8.32.100. Prohibitions—Solid waste collection vehicles.

No person authorized to engage in solid waste disposal service or solid waste collection shall operate any truck-mounted solid waste loading and/or compacting equipment or similar device in any manner so as to create any noise exceeding seventy-five dBA, measured at a distance of twenty-five feet from the equipment and measured at an elevation of five feet above ground level using the "A" scale of the standard sound level meter at slow response in an open area or as determined by the criteria set forth in Section 8.32.050.

Solid waste collection vehicles shall be tested annually during the months of March and April, beginning March of 2007. The city's authorized solid waste collection contractors shall submit a certificate of testing showing that the vehicles met the requirements section.

No person authorized to engage in solid waste disposal service or solid waste collection shall operate or use any solid waste collection vehicles for residential cart collection that exceeds thirty-two cubic yards in capacity or exceeds fifty thousand pounds when loaded. This requirement shall not apply to collection vehicles collecting bins or large items. The city's authorized contractor may exceed the collection vehicle size limitation for a limited time period due to extraordinary circumstances or conditions with the prior written consent of the city. The limited time period shall not exceed one hundred and twenty days.

(Ord. 629 § 5, 2005: Ord. 594 § 1, 1997: prior code § 695.9 (a))