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CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PLEASANTON ALAMEDA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA ORDINANCE NO. 500 PROVIDING FOR COLLECTION, REMOVAL AND DISPOSAL OF REFUSE AND GARBAGE: AND REPEALING ORDINANCE NO. 345 AND ORDINANCE NO. 495 THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PLEASANTON DOES HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: 1.00 DEFINITIONS: Garbage, waste matter and refuse as used in this ordinance shall mean animal and vegetable waste including dried weeds, grass, garden and lawn trimmings, and all other noncombustible waste material. 1.01 Residential Unit shall mean any occupied premise having bathroom or toilet, and kitchen plumbing facilities, suitable for residential occupancy by a number of persons living together as a single family, including single family dwellings, and each group of occupied rooms constituting living quarters for a single family in any duplex, triplex, apartment, court or other multiple dwell- ing structure, but excluding any living or sleeping quarters in hotels, apartments, rooming houses, motels or auto courts where kitchen facilities are not provided. 1.02 Commercial Unit shall mean any occupied premise speci- fically utilized for the purpose of engaging in commercial activity as defined by Articles 9 through 13 of Ordinance No. 309, as amended. 1.03 Industrial Unit shall mean any occupied premise specifically utilized for the purpose of engaging in industrial activity as defined by Articles 14 and 15 of Ordinance No. 309, as amended. 2.00 GENERAL PROVISIONS. Each and every residential unit, commercial unit and industrial unit, as defined above shall have garbage service by the refuse collector of the City of Pleasanton. To provide such service, the City may grant a franchise for the exclusive right to collect, transport and dispose of refuse pro- duced and accumulated within the limits of the City of Pleasanton as provided hereafter. 3.00 REFUSE SERVICE. The City Manager, or the Director of Public Works, shall cause all buildings or structures specified in Section 2.00 hereof within the corporate limits of the City of Pleasanton to be visited from time to time, and the sanitary condition of said buildings or structures examined to determine whether the provisions of this ordinance are complied with. Upon notification by duly authorized representative of the City, all persons, including the refuse collector, shall comply with the provisions of this ordinance or be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. 3.01 In all cases of disputes or complaints concerning receptacles for refuse and the place where they are awaiting removal of their contents, the quantities to be removed, the - 1 -