1639 ORDINANCE NO. 1639
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SANFORD, FLORIDA PRO-
HIBITING THE DUMPING OF ORGANIC MATERIALS WITHIN
THE CITY; PROVIDING THE ERECTION OF A BARRIER FOR
LANDFILL SITE%PROHIBITING PLACEMENT OF FILL MATERIAL
IN WATER; PROVIDING FOR ENFORCEMENT PROEEDURES AND
STANDARDS; REQUIRING COMPLIANCE BY EXISTING I~kNDFILL
OPERATIONS WITHIN 30 DAYS; PROVIDING SEPARABILITY,
CONFLICTS AND EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY OF SANFORD, FLORIDA,
AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1: The filling of land with organic materials such as
muck, stumps, logs, trees, wood rubble, built-up roofing materials, shingles,
furniture, trash, leaves, yard trimmings, paper or garbage shall be pro-
hibited. Inorganic materials such as soil, gravel, bricks, boulders,
inorganic rubble of concrete, cement blocks, bricks, steel and/or wire
mesh may be used to fill land.
SECTION 2: During landfilling operations there shall be an
effective barrier to prevent unauthorized entry into the fill area and
to also prevent open viewing by the public.
SECTION 3: Under no circumstances shall any fill materials be
placed on land that retains water. Fill materials shall not be deposited
in such a manner so as to obstruct or impair natural drainage from
adjacent properties.
SECTION 4: If any duly authorized representativeof the City
finds that any of the aforementioned provisions have been violated, or
if the City determines that a public nuisance or condition adversely
affecting the public health, safety and welfare exists as a result of
a landfill operation, said landfill owner shall immediately cease operation
and the property owner shall be notified and held responsible for restoring
the land to an acceptable condition as may be prescribed by the City.
Failure to do so will be cause for the owner to be held in violation of
this law.
SECTION 5: All landfill operations shall be in compliance with
all other municipal, county, state and federal regulations which include,
and are not limi~edto the Florida Air & Water Pollution Control Act,
and the Florida Safe Drinking Water Act, and standards adopted thereunder.
SECTION 6: Governmental entities, their employees and agents,
when properly permitted by necessary regulating authorities, and when
operating a landfill for the express purpose of serving the public during
the course of a governmental service, are exempt from the provisions
of this section. All governmental landfill operations shall be in
compliance with other municipal, county, state and federal regulations
pertaining to landfill operations'.
SECTION 7: All landfilling shall cease immediately With~ the
passage and adoption of this Ordinance. Owners shall then have 30
days to comply with the other provisions of this Ordinance.
SECTION 8: Violations of this ordinance may be processed through
the Code Enforcement Board in accordance with rules and procedures adopted
by said Board.
SECTION 9: If any section or a portion of a section of this
Ordinance proves to be invalid, unlawful, or unconstitutional, it shall
not be held to invalidate or impair the validity, force or effect of
this Ordinance,
SECTION 10: That all ordinances or parts of ordinances in
conflict herewith, be and the same are hereby repealed.
SECTION 11: This Ordinance shall become effective immediately
upon its passage and adoption.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 25th day of ADril ,
A.D., 1983.
MAYOR
Sanford, Florida.
CERTIFICATE
I, H. N~ Tamm, Jr., City Clerk of the City of San-
ford, Florida, do hereby certify that a true and correct
copy of the foregoing Ordinance No. 1639, PASSED and ADOPTED
by the City Commission of the City of Sanford, Florida, on
the 25th day of April, 1983, was POSTED at the front door of
the City Hall in the City of Sanford, Florida, on the 26th
day of April, 1983.
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