Mis-bagged yard waste fine?
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davis_squareSo our landlord called us this week. It seems he received a $25 citation from the city of Somerville for something involving incorrect trash on our curb (Apologies for not getting the exact description, the landlord spoke with one of my roommates).
The only strange thing on our curb this last week was some bags of leaves in (incorrect) plastic trash bags that the landscaping crew had left from some work done in the backyard. The bags of leaves were left by the trash crew (they were not picked up, and are now back in the backyard).
This raised some questions in my head:
1) No where on the Somerville Environmental Service Guide does it say that you will be fined for putting out improper trash.
2) How can the city fine you if they did not take the trash? It makes sense if they take the trash and then fine you for that, but the garbagemen just skipped over the bags of leaves. It seems this is a "no harm, no foul" sort of situation.
As an aside, the landlord has agreed to pay the fine, since he was the one that hired the landscapers. I did not want to tell him what to do, but I want to tell him to not pay the fine.
Any comments?
The only strange thing on our curb this last week was some bags of leaves in (incorrect) plastic trash bags that the landscaping crew had left from some work done in the backyard. The bags of leaves were left by the trash crew (they were not picked up, and are now back in the backyard).
This raised some questions in my head:
1) No where on the Somerville Environmental Service Guide does it say that you will be fined for putting out improper trash.
2) How can the city fine you if they did not take the trash? It makes sense if they take the trash and then fine you for that, but the garbagemen just skipped over the bags of leaves. It seems this is a "no harm, no foul" sort of situation.
As an aside, the landlord has agreed to pay the fine, since he was the one that hired the landscapers. I did not want to tell him what to do, but I want to tell him to not pay the fine.
Any comments?
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New Ordinance?
Date: 2006-05-04 04:08 pm (UTC)Our comic book group of Alderman were passing new Garbage regulations becuase of Rats. It seems one of the alderman (Marryann) actually had Rats in her own yard before they became motivated to solve the problem. In their typical fashion they probably rolled out the new set of rules and fines without doing a decent job of informing everyone in the community so that we could all work together to help solve the problem. see meeting notes: http://www.ci.somerville.ma.us/CoS_Content/documents/minutes/Committee%20Report%20-%20Rodent%20Control%20-%204-27-06.pdf