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Show Garbage to landfill 'Keep it covered' haulers told By PALL CHALLIS News Editor WEST BOUNTIFUL Davis County residents are being put on notice that if they haul garbage through Bountiful and West Bountiful to the county landfill they better have it covered. Mayor Carl Johnson said he and Bountiful City Manager Tom Hardy recently discussed the problem and decided to warn violators that the police departments depart-ments will be paying "special attention" to those individuals in-dividuals who are hauling garbage through their cities, especially the next several weeks during the spring cleanup period. Johnson said both cities have similar garbage hauling ordinances for public streets. West Bountiful's ordinance states: It shall be unlawful for any person to haul, convey or transport through or upon any public streets any garbage, ashes, market wastes, trade wastes, manure, night soil, loose paper, scrap lumber, trees, tree limbs, bush clippings, lawn chppings, house refuse, yard refuse, liquid wastes, or any other materials in open trucks, open trailers or other conveyances unless completely covered with a heavy tarp, canvas, plastic, cloth or other material sufficient suf-ficient to secure the load and prevent the same, or any part thereof, from overhanging the sides, or falling from the vehicle or conveyance upon which it is being transported. , "Each vehicle must be covered with a heavy tarp, canvas, plastic, cloth or other acceptable material at all times when the vehicle is being used for the collection of, or carrying, transporting or hauling of garbage, manure, ma-nure, dead animals, refuse and other materials herein about set forth upon the public streets within the city." A popular route to the county dump is through West Bountiful on 1100 West, and city officials will be enforcing en-forcing the ordinance this spring. In other action, the council and the new ordinance officer set guidelines on informing residents of violations. viola-tions. The officer will leave or mail a letter to the property prop-erty owner to inform them of the violation and the stipulations. "The letter will give them 30 days to take care of the violation' Officer Lynn Hooper said. "I want the citizens to know that the communications communica-tions are administrative procedures and not criminal," Johnson said. "Like (Jazz announcer) Hot Rod Hundley says, 'No harm, no foul.' It may not lead to a citation." Hooper added that the council would be the appeal board for cases that are not resolved and corrected. 'Grievances will come to the council. ' Hooper is currently working on five parcels of land that have stock piled and wrecked vehicles and other safety hazards. "There is one yard in town that the weeds are higher than I am tall. ' The council members said they stand behind Hooper and his actions. ' ' We care about the safety, health and welfare of our citizens," Councilman Bruce Talbot said. |