STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA                     )

                                                                              )            ORDINANCE NUMBER 06-19-07

COUNTY OF NEWBERRY COUNTY              )

 

 

AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CODE SECTION 50.01 (A) OF THE NEWBERRY COUNTY CODE OF ORDINANCES TO PROVIDE FOR THE PERIODIC SETTING OF SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL FEES.   

 

 

            WHEREFORE, due to the rising cost of handling solid waste disposal in Newberry County, it is necessary to amend the County Code relating to solid waste disposal fees to provide a mechanism whereby the waste disposal, or tipping, fees imposed can be changed from time to time, including provisions for setting such fees in the Annual Budget, or by Resolution during a Fiscal Year.

            NOW THEREFORE, it is Ordained that the following amendment to code section 50.01 of the Newberry County Code of Ordinances be enacted:

In Code Section 50.01 “FEES”, Subsection (A), strike the first sentence and insert in lieu thereof the following:

All persons or organizations, however constituted, which are not otherwise expressly exempt from paying solid waste disposal fees pursuant to this Code of Ordinances, shall pay at the Transfer Station a per ton solid waste disposal, or tipping, fee established by County Council in its annual fiscal year budget ordinance for general appropriations.  A new fee may be established by County Council either by an amendment to the annual budget ordinance after its enactment for a fiscal year, or by Resolution during the fiscal year.   Should County Council fail to establish a new  tonnage fee in this manner, the per ton fee for the prior fiscal year shall continue.

                                   

           


AND IT IS SO ORDAINED by Newberry County Council this 15th day of

 

August, 2007 in meeting duly assembled at Newberry, South Carolina.

 

 

                                                                        NEWBERRY COUNTY COUNCIL

            (SEAL)

By:__________________________

Henry B. Summer, Chairman

Attest:

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Susan C. Fellers, Clerk to Council

 

1st reading:  July 11, 2007                                       Reviewed and approved as to form:

                                                                                    _______________________________

2nd reading:  August 8, 2007                                     Gary T. Pope, County Attorney

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3rd reading:  August 15, 2007                                        Wayne Adams, County Administrator