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(1) Commercial self-haulers shall:

(a) Register as self-haulers with the city on forms prescribed by the city.

(b) Source separate all organic waste (materials that the city otherwise requires generators to separate for collection in the city’s organics and recycling collection program) and haul such materials using the self-hauler’s own vehicles, equipment and employees to a permitted solid waste processing facility or shall haul organic waste to a permitted high diversion organic waste processing facility as specified in 14 CCR Section 18984.3.

(c) Shall haul their source separated recyclable materials to an authorized recycling center that recovers those materials and provide the city with delivery receipts and weight tickets from the recycling facility accepting the materials; and haul their source separated green container organic waste to a solid waste facility, operation, activity, or property that processes or recovers source separated organic waste. Alternatively, self-haulers may haul organic waste to a high diversion organic waste processing facility.

(2) Self-haulers that are commercial businesses (including multifamily residential dwellings) shall keep a record of the amount of organic waste delivered to each permitted solid waste processing facility that processes or recovers organic waste; this record shall be subject to inspection by the city. The records shall include the following information:

(a) Delivery receipts and weight tickets from the entity accepting the waste.

(b) The amount of material in cubic yards or tons transported by the generator to each entity.

(c) If the material is transported to an entity that does not have scales on site, or employs scales incapable of weighing the self-hauler’s vehicle in a manner that allows it to determine the weight of materials received, the self-hauler is not required to record the weight of material but shall keep a record of the facilities that received the organic waste.

(3) Self-haulers that are commercial businesses (including multifamily self-haulers) shall report its self-haul source separated recyclable materials and/or organic waste tonnage hauled to the city on the first day of each month covering the tonnage for the preceding month.

(4) Any registered commercial self-hauler of source separated recyclable materials and/or organic waste found to be in violation of the provisions of this chapter, upon issuance of a first notice of violation, at the discretion of the city enforcement official, may have its self-hauler registration revoked and will be required to subscribe to solid waste and recycling services from the city’s franchise waste hauler within five days of the issuance of the notice of violation. Failure to subscribe to solid waste and recycling services may result in penalties prescribed in CMC 8.12.930 et seq. (Ord. 716 § 2, 2021).