12-2102. Collection and disposal under contract or as municipal function; conditions as to certain cities over 120,000; facilities.
12-2102
12-2102. Collection and disposal under contract or as municipal
function; conditions as to certain cities over 120,000; facilities.
The governing body of any city may provide for the collection and
disposal of garbage or trash or both of them and in doing so may provide
for the collection and disposal of either one or both by contract or either
one or both as a municipal function and any contract may be for not more
than ten (10) years and such contract shall not be considered as being in
conflict with the cash basis and budget laws: Provided, That any such
contract may be for not more than twenty (20) years by any city of the
first class having the commission form of government with three
commissioners elected for terms of four years and a population in excess of
one hundred twenty thousand (120,000), and any change in form of government
or number or terms of commissioners or population shall not affect the
power of any city qualifying at the time this act takes effect in the
exercise of this power hereafter. If the city collects and disposes of
garbage or trash or both as a municipal function it shall have power to
purchase all necessary equipment, acquire all necessary land, build any
necessary buildings, incinerators or other structures, to lease land or
otherwise acquire the right to use land for the disposal of garbage or
trash or both, and to do all other things necessary to a proper, effective,
and sanitary disposal of garbage and trash: Provided, That garbage
which may be disposed of through a sewage disposal plant may be disposed of
through the sewage disposal plant rather than by burning, burying, or
feeding or other disposal.
History: L. 1947, ch. 128, § 2; L. 1965, ch. 111, § 1; June 30.